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[edit] Wolverton and Old Wolverton

The MK article gets too big if there is a lot of detail on the original towns. So I hope you don't mind, but I've moved your extra material into the Wolverton, Milton Keynes article. --Concrete Cowboy 11:53, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

- no problem!


[edit] Space activity suit

Please place comments or questions about articles on their respective talk pages, i.e. Talk:space activity suit, rather than in the article itself. Thanks, — Swpbtalk|edits 15:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC) 23:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Epic of Gilgamesh

Your discussion of the word Mile

"Mile" comes from "Mile Passum" in the latin, "a thousand paces" - mile is "thousand". I'm wary of your claim that Gilgamesh in its original uses "mile" and I don't think this is valid unless you can offer some etymological references proving that the Roman word for a thousand came from the language used in Gilgamesh (umm, sorry, would this be Akkadian? I am not sure). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.133.79.7 (talk) 17:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

Mile comes from Old English Myle, comes from Mille Passus in the latin, a thousand passus, comes from mia chillioi in the Greek, a thousand orquia, comes from the definition of the aroura, a measure of one thousand as mentioned by Herodotus, a Greek word for the dimensions of an Egyptian field called a setat Gardiner p 491 N37 transliterated st3t

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which was 100 royal cubits

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to a side (172.2 ft or 29,668 SF) and plowed boustrahedron in a path measured an orquia wide for 10 x 100 orquia, (using an orquia of 5.45 ft). The setat comes from the Mesopotamian iku, a field with side 100 ku. This would be Akkadian after c 2100 BC and before that c 2600 BC Sumerian. Probably borrowed by Egypt as a standard c 1620 - 1550 BC. The languages used in the various versions of the Epic of Gilgamish would include most ANE languages as it was very widely read. The Greek Mia chillioi is also divided into 8 stadions of 600 Greek pous (185 m) while the Roman Mille Passus is 8 stadiums of 625 Roman pes (185 m)or 5000 pes, 1000 passus Rktect 14:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)