Take several measurements and average them. The best way is to count the number of steps you need to walk a known distance, such as a football field, which is 300 feet. Divide the number of steps you need to cover the 300 feet. For 100 steps, the step length would be three feet.he best way is to count the number of steps you need to walk a known distance, such as a football field, which is 300 feet. Divide the number of steps you need to cover the 300 feet.
In the eagle's beak there is a banner with the state motto, State Sovereignty, National Union.. The dates on the seal, 1818 and 1868, represent the year Illinois became a state and the year in which the Great Seal was redesigned by Sharon Tyndale. Although State Sovereignty comes first in the motto, State is at the bottom and Sovereignty is upside-down.
Esse Quam Videri. The North Carolina state motto is a Latin motto which in English means To be, rather than to seem. The Latin motto originates from a section in Cicero's On Friendship (De Amicitia, chapter 26). The whole phrase is: Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.. The North Carolina motto was adopted in 1893 which is rather late.