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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big Day of the Festivities of La Blanca 2025 - Spain

A man lifts weights during the festivities of 'La Blanca' 2025, on August 5, 2025, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country (Spain). The festivities of Vitoria in honor of the Virgen Blanca celebrate today, August 5, its big day, in which takes place the floral offering and Aurresku in honor of the Virgen Blanca by the Blusas and Neskas gangs. In addition, there are comparsas of giants and big heads, concerts by the band of the municipal corporation and other activities, such as release of heifers or championship of bolo alavés. Photo by Inaki Berasaluce/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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STATE VISIT ICELAND SILVIAHEMMET

Queen Silvia and Mr. Björn Skúlason visit the Silviahemmet Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden 6 May 2025. From left: Björn Skúlason trying out a safe chair with weights, specialist nurse Ulrika Garnér, Minister of the Elderly and Social Insurance Anna Tenje, First Lady Anna Hamilton, Icelandic Minister of Health Anna Möller and Queen Silvia. The Icelandic presidential couple are on a three-day state visit to Sweden.Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT / Code 10080

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STATE VISIT TO ICELAND SILVIAHEMMET

Queen Silvia and Mr. Björn Skúlason visit the Silviahemmet Foundation in Stockholm, . From left: specialist nurse Ulrika Garnér, Björn Skúlason trying out a safe chair with weights, Minister for the Elderly and Social Insurance Anna Tenje, Icelandic Minister of Health Anna Möller and Queen Silvia. The Icelandic presidential couple is on a three-day state visit to Sweden.Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT / Code 10080

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Iranian Youth - Tehran

A man lifts weights in a gym in Tehran. February 2, 2023. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iranian Youth - Tehran

A man lifts weights in a gym in Tehran. February 2, 2023. Photo by Bahram/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-ANHUI-SHEXIAN COUNTY-HUIZHOU INK-INHERITOR (CN)

(231031) -- SHEXIAN COUNTY, Oct. 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Jian weights a piece of ink cake at the Ancient Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory in Shexian County, Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 24, 2023. Shexian County, located in Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, is known as the "Capital of Ink" dating back to the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-975). After it was renamed Huizhou in 1121, the term "Huizhou Ink", or "Hui Mo" in Chinese, stands for high-quality ink product in China. Huizhou Ink, a type of paint usually applied in traditional Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, is mainly made of pine soot, tung oil soot or lacquer soot, and colloid, and mixed with more than a dozen precious ingredients such as musk, gold foil and pearl powder. Due to its high-standard making procedures, Huizhou Ink is lustrous black in colour, solid in quality, anti-tinting on paper, unsticky with brush, long-lasting with time, fragrant in smell and mothproof in storage. In June 2006, the making craft of Huizh

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Rugby: Japan's pre-World Cup training

Japan player Michael Leitch lifts weights during a gym session ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup at the Brave Blossoms' base in Toulouse, France, on Sept. 5, 2023.

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U20 Wrestling World Championships unveiled in Jordan

STORY: U20 Wrestling World Championships unveiled in Jordan DATELINE: Aug. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: Amman CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the opening ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): NENAD LALOVIV, President of United World Wrestling 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): MOHAMMED AL-AWAMLEH, President of Jordan Wrestling Federation 4. various of the wrestling match STORYLINE: The United World Wrestling (UWW) U20 World Championships 2023 kicked off in Amman of Jordan on Monday. More than 1,000 global wrestlers will compete on the mats for world titles in various weights of freestyle, Greco-Roman, and women wrestling. The seven-day championship was originally scheduled to be held in Warsaw of Poland. UWW President Nenad Lalovic expressed his satisfaction with the preparation for hosting the championship in Jordan with such short notice. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): NENAD LALOVIV, President of United World Wrestling "The preparation goes very well. The competition has already started. I don't see any,

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Museum of scales in Mie Pref. closes

TSU, Japan - Kenzo Kobayashi, the 73-year-old owner and curator of Hakarinoyakata, one of only two museums on scales, weights and measures in Japan, speaks of his collection of over 10,000 items in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in central Japan, on March 30, 2014. The museum closed the same day, with Kobayashi's collection to be donated to a scale maker in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, for exhibition in a new museum to open there in October.

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Nara researcher finds oldest weights in Japan

NARA, Japan - Photo taken June 14, 2013 shows Susumu Morimoto, an archeologist and researcher at the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Nara City, who has discovered that what had been believed to be grinding stones from the first half of the Yayoi period, about 2,400 years ago, were actually weights for scales.

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Olympics: Miyake fails in bid for Japan's 1st Beijing medal

BEIJING, China - Japan's Hiromi Miyake drops the weights after failing to match her Japanese clean and jerk record of 110 kilograms with her second and third efforts in the 48-kg class for the women's weightlifting program at the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 9. Miyake finished sixth in the event, which was won by 2007 world champion Chen Xiexia of China.

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Tanzanian para athlete vows to go beyond himself in int'l competition

STORY: Tanzanian para athlete vows to go beyond himself in int'l competition DATELINE: July 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:16 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mwila lifting weights and exercising 2. various of Mwila in the gym with his coach 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (SWAHILI): YOHANA ASSA MWILA, Para powerlifter 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (SWAHILI): NEMES ALBERT CHIWALA, Para lifting coach STORYLINE: Yohana Assa Mwila, a man who lost his right leg in 1988 through a bite from a highly poisonous snake, said nothing will stop him from putting Tanzania on a global para powerlifting map. Mwila, 38, is a para powerlifter who has qualified to represent Tanzania in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England that will see around 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories compete in 19 sports and eight para-sports across 15 competition venues from July 28 until Aug. 8. Para powerlifting is one of the sports to be contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the sixth staging of para powerliftin

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Israel discovers 2,100-year-old farmstead near Sea of Galilee

STORY: Israel discovers 2,100-year-old farmstead near Sea of Galilee DATELINE: May 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:22 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the excavation site STORYLINE: Israeli archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved ancient agricultural farmstead, dated back to 2,100 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Wednesday. It was discovered next to Arbel stream in the eastern Galilee Region in northern Israel, about 6 km west of the Sea of Galilee. The finds include tens of loom weights used for weaving garments, large ceramic storage vessels, and iron agricultural implements, including various picks and scythes, the IAA noted. They were found during excavation carried out by the IAA prior to a project conducted by the state-owned water company Mekorot to transfer desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee. "The finds remained where they were left by the occupants of the site," said Amani Abu-Hamid, director of the excavation. "It seems t

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Baseball: Angels vs. Rangers

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels warms up for his pitching start against the Texas Rangers by throwing balls of various weights against a wall at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on April 14, 2022.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Powerlifting

A staff member wearing a power-assist suit adjusts powerlifting weights at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 26, 2021, at Tokyo International Forum.

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Heart Condition (1990)

Bob Hoskins Characters: Jack Moony Film: Heart Condition (1991) Director: James D. Parriott 02 February 1990 Date: 02 February 1990

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K-9 (1989)

The Dog Jerry Lee & James Belushi Characters: & Dooley Film: K-9 (1989) Director: Rob Daniel 28 April 1989 Date: 28 April 1989

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Million Dollar Legs film (1932)

W.C. Fields Characters: The President Film: Million Dollar Legs (1935) 01 May 1932 Date: 01 May 1932

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The Haihunhou Tomb Relics on Display in Nanchang

Photo shows weights unearthed in Liu He tomb, Nanchang city, Jiangxi Province, China, Oct. 11, 2016. An exhibition of the archaeological achievements of Haihunhou was officially opened at the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. The jade seal of Liu He, a haihunhou of the Western Han Dynasty, was unveiled publicly for the first time.

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the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on November 16, 2018) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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laboratory weight

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on November 16, 2018) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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