Words About Worcester

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Leap day (Gregorian calendar)

1704 – Joint French and Native American forces destroyed the English settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during Queen Anne's War, killing over fifty colonists.
1720 – Unable to establish a joint sovereignty similar to England's William and Mary, Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicated in favour of her husband, who became Frederick I.

1897 – Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
1935 – Working with polyamides to developing a new viable fiber for the chemical company DuPont, American chemist Wallace Carothers invented nylon.

1801 – Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 – Manuel Belgrano raised the Flag of Argentina, which he designed, for the first time in the city of Rosario, during the Argentine War of Independence.

1909 – The first films made with Kinemacolor, the earliest successful colour motion picture process, were shown to the British general public.
1917 – New Orleans' Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded "Livery Stable Blues", the first jazz single ever released.
1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.

1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1951 – After being postponed since 1943 due to World War II, the first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1809 – After standing only 15 years, London's Drury Lane theatre, the third building of that name, burned down.
1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed.
1875 – The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at low tide and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, Queensland, Australia, with over 100 deaths.

1739 – The identity of English highwayman Dick Turpin, who had been living under an alias in York, was uncovered by his former schoolteacher, who recognised his handwriting, leading to Turpin's arrest.
1945 – American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima, an image that was later reproduced as the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization, responsible for worldwide industrial and commercial standards, was founded.

What is the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Well it is half of half of half of half an A0 sheet, which is 1189 x 841 mm or 46.8 x 33.1 in

The A series paper sizes are defined in ISO 216 by the following requirements:

The length divided by the width is 1.4142
The A0 size has an area of 1 square metre.
Each subsequent size A(n) is defined as A(n-1) cut in half parallel to its shorter sides.
The standard length and width of each size is rounded to the nearest millimetre.