One peck is equal to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints, so Peter picked 8... According to the nursery rhyme, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck is a unit of measurement of dry volume.
The following is a list of how many people were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. US Navy: 2,008 KIAUSMC: 109 KIAUS Army: 218 KIACivilâ¦ians: 68 Total: 2,403 Close to 2/3 of those who died occurred in the first 15 minutes of the battle when the Oklahoma, Utah and the Arizona were bombed. In addition, 55 Japanese died, in addition to an unknown number of Japanese wounded. The US had 1,178 personnel wounded.
The highest recorded use of the name Pearl was in 1918 with a total of 4,521 babies. (That's a lot of baby Pearls). According to the 1923 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the name Pearl ranks #61 in popularity as a baby girl's name in New York. Imagine that, 399 babies in New York have the same name as you in 1923. Across the entire United States a total of 3,627 babies also bear the same first name during the same year.