American Shani Davis celebrates after defending his Olympic title in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating. Jamie Squire/Getty Images When he won this race four years ago, Davis became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Winter Games.
What is Gauss? Gauss is a unit of measurement used to describe both the coercivity of a magnet and its saturation magnetization. Basically, it describes how strong the magnetic fields are extending from the magnet and how strong of a magnetic field it would take to de-magnetize the magnet. The name comes from the mathematician physicist Carl Freidrich Gauss.
Pous. The pous was a unit of length used through much of the Iron Age in Europe and the Ancient Near East. A pous is a Greek foot. One stadion is always 600 podes, though the length of the pous varies like the Mesopotamian units, where the cubit or ku was divided into four different digits, a thumb, palms, and various hands, fists, spans and quarters. The Greek pous also has long, median and short forms.