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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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The numbers on them indicate the statute miles from Glen Canyon dam, the lake's official south end.
Lake Powell by Gibbs, Tony / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
The record-breaking, nonstop, unrefueled flight covered an astounding 26,366 statute miles in just 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
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Circling the earth in the ionosphere, following a nearly pole-crossing orbit 602 statute miles above the surface, Polar BEAR carries three experiments, whose data will be used to help improve communications over the polar regions.
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