Furlong in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name "furlong" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose
Rob Furlong after an episode in which he physically abused and urinated on a fellow police officer. , he operates a marksmanship academy, called Rob Furlong's Marksmanship Academy, based in Alberta. Rob Furlong Rob Furlong (born November 11, 1976) is a Canadian former military sniper who at one time held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at . Born on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Furlong taught himself to fire a rifle ambidextrously. Furlong enrolled with the Canadian Army and served with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. In March 2002, Furlong participated in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan's