'Cartouche' is actually a French word meaning 'gun cartridge'. When Napoleon's soldiers were in Egypt, they nicknamed this shape 'cartouche' because it reminded them of the shape of their gun cartridges, or bullets. At the time, people could not read hieroglyphic writing, so they did not know that the cartouche surrounded the name of the pharaoh. 'Cartouche' became so commonly used that it has remained the standard name for the shape around the name of an Egyptian pharaoh or queen. Were royal names always written inside cartouches? In the first three dynasties, royal names were written inside a rectangle called a 'serekh'.
Maximum Speed. The maximum swimming speed for humans is approximately 2 meters per second, or approximately 4.5 miles per hour, Dutch researchers Huub Toussaint and Martin Truijens reported in the journal Animal Biology in 2005 â only 16 percent of the maximum land speeds of elite human sprinters.
Best Answer: I messure things in mts but as a mile is equal to 1.6km aprox. A pro swimmer has times in the 1500mt trial of 15 min aprox. A good swimmer does it in about 20 min. Someone that trains constantly but does not want to compete would be between 25 and 30 mins. Everybody that swims 1500 mt (close to a mile) under 35min should be considered a fit person and a good swimmer.