Furlong the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and
Stone (Alice in Chains song) Stone (Alice in Chains song) "Stone" is the second single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their 2013 album, "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here". The song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. A music video has been released for the song. Singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell came up with the song's riff whilst recovering from surgery to repair his damaged shoulder cartilage. He told "Ultimate-Guitar.com": "My arm was f--ked up and I couldn't play guitar so I just hummed that riff into a phone and that's how that song came