Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton is the name for the unit called the ton in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom and several other British Commonwealth of Nations countries alongside the mass-based metric ton invented in 1799.
The author of The House Of Seven Gables is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
the canterbury tales for other uses see the canterbury tales disambiguation the canterbury tales middle english tales of caunterbury is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17000 lines written in middle english by geoffrey chaucer in 1386 chaucer became controller of customs and justice of peace and three years later clerk of the king s work in 1389 it was during these years that chaucer began working on his most famous text the canterbury tales