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Where did the transition to the metric system almost lead to a plane crash?

In 1983, Canada was moving to the metric system, and Air Canada ordered new Boeing 767s that were set to liters and kilograms instead of gallons and pounds.

Incorrect use of new units of measurement by the crew of one of the aircraft led to the fact that the amount of refueled fuel turned out to be much less than required for the flight. As a result of this error, as well as errors onboard equipment, mid-flight at an altitude of 12 meters, the fuel ran out and the engines stopped.

To the credit of the crew, the pilots managed to glide onto the runway of the former military base, and the passengers escaped with only minor injuries.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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The translation of which book into the languages of European peoples contributed to the creation of their national script and literary language?

This book is the Bible. So, in 350, Bishop Ulfilas translated a significant part of the Bible into the Gothic language, which laid the foundations of the Gothic literary language. Since the Gothic language did not have words for many Christian concepts, Ulfila had to not only invent new words, but even develop a special alphabet.

With the aim of translating the Bible into Armenian, the monk Mesrots Mashtop at the turn of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries invented an original script so well adapted to the transmission of Armenian sounds that it has survived almost unchanged to this day.

In order to translate the Bible into Slavonic, the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius created the Slavic alphabet around 863. In 1522, the first part of the Bible was published in a German translation by Martin Luther.

Trying to make the translation accessible and understandable to as many compatriots as possible, Luther used the variant of the language, which, in his opinion, was not characterized by regional limitations, and thereby laid the foundation for the subsequent development of a common German literary language.

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