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Was it that the imperial equivalent of 2m used to be stated to be 6', but it is in fact 6' 6"? The change took place in 1983, when the metre was officially defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. (The date of change and definition provided by www.metric-conversions.org)
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yorkshirehornet
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No..... good try but nothing to do with distance per se...... think maybe of degrees
Is it to do with the difference between north and magnetic north? If that is correct, I don't know when it changed, but if I remember correctly from Scouting, it changes roughly every couple of years, so 2017?
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I was about to say degrees of separation. Does it mean we're more closely related to others than we used to be? Given some of the people I've come across in my time, I rather hope not 
yorkshirehornet
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You are half way there.. Can you link up to my question?I was about to say degrees of separation. Does it mean we're more closely related to others than we used to be? Given some of the people I've come across in my time, I rather hope not
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Do you mean that I know somebody who knows somebody (all of that 6 times over) who knows the King of Norway (or anyone else) has been revised to 6.6 ?
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Cologne I will give it to you.. Microsoft did a study and found that it is nearer 6.6 degrees of separation that unite humanity. I am cynical about their study though
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Cheers Yorkie. It is well known that there was a lot of gender cross acting in the time of Skakespeare ie. boys playing the part of girls etc. but what is the only case of this being done to depict a British monarch on screen (ie. on film) ?
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Clues: a film where someone played a monarch of the opposite sex to themselves. The Monarch was a famous polyglot - not that this had any bearing on the film. The name of the actor/actress reminds me a little of a character invented by Sir Walter Scott and very much to do with Liege.
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That was the Monarch being played Yorkie. She was a famous polyglot, being able to converse in about 10 different languages. Now you only need the actor and the film.