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Mile
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MILE, measure. A length of a thousand paces, or seventeen hundred and sixty yards, or five thousand two hundred and eighty feet. It contains eight furlongs, every furlong being forty poles, and each pole sixteen feet six inches. 2 Stark. R. 89.


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Caption: Medussa (if looks could kill), Twelve labors of Hercules Romans erected a Milestone for every Roman mile of road they paved.
 
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