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
July Furlong de siglo". July Furlong Norma Ojeda Furlong is a writer, journalist and former Mexican actress and singer. Sister of the singer Oscar Athie, she started her career in 1968 in the Mexican T.V show "La hora de Raúl Astor". Her first role in a telenovela was in 1973. In the 1970s and 1980s, starred in many Mexican films and telenovelas as "Mi pequeña Soledad" (1990) with Verónica Castro and "Muchachitas" (1991). Her last t.v role was in "Al norte del corazón" in 1997. July began a writer and journalist career in 1992. In 2000 write her first political book "Testiminios