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.
More than 82 million American adults are estimated to have one or more types of cardiovascular disease â thats one in three people. On average 2,200 Americans die of cardiovascular disease each day. Heart disease is the number one cause of death among women 20 and older, killing about one woman every minute. More women die of heart disease than the next four causes of death combined â including all forms of cancer. Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease.