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metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.
homeopathy
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like".
flag of France
national flag of the French Republic
lithography
thumb|upright=1.3|A lithograph of Charles Marion Russell's The Custer Fight (1903), with the range of tones fading toward the edges.
dime
United States coin with the value of ten cents
Phantasmagoria
thumb|upright=1.7|Interpretation of Robertson's Fantasmagorie from F. Marion's ''L'Optique'' (1867)
Jim Beam
American brand of bourbon whiskey
penny
United States coin with a value of 1 cent
quarter
United States coin
Flowing Hair dollar
coin minted by the United States from 1794 to 1795
eagle
United States coin
half cent
copper coin issued by the United States
Draped Bust dollar
United States dollar coin minted from 1795 to 1803
Turban Head eagle
coin
Kojiki-den
The '''' (古事記伝) is a 44-volume commentary on the written by the kokugaku'' scholar Motoori Norinaga.
quarter eagle
gold coin issued by the United States
large cent
coin in the United States
half eagle
gold coin issued by the United States
Chain cent
First circulating coin produced by the US Mint
Bank of England £5 note
current denomination of British currency