The slug is the unit of mass in the British Imperial System and in the US system.
Quibbling
The original unit of area in the French metric system was the “are”. A larger multiple of the “are”, 100 ares, was the “hectare”.
Under SI, the “are” is not a unit. The “hectare” is a recognized unit of land measurement, but is not part of the official SI set of units.
Fine, but…
10 furlongs, or 2011.68 meters — is the length of the Kentucky Derby
9.5 furlongs, or 1911.10 meters — is the length of the Preakness Stakes
12 furlongs, or 2414.02 meters — is the length of the Belmont Stakes
And Secretariat still holds the Belmont track record of 2:24 flat.
(Oh yeah, that’s my play)
In the United States the public land survey system* is used. A square of 6 miles by 6 miles is a township (numbered north and south) identified by range (numbered east and west). Each township is divided into 36 sections that use a snake numbering system.
Sections are 1 square mile then divided into quarters and quartered again into divisions of 40 acres. So for example the Colorado State Capitol lies in Township 4 South Range 68 West. It is in Section 3 of that township and withing that section it is within the northeast quarter and within THAt quarter it is in the northwest quarter.
It is read smallest to largest so the capitol’s location is
NW 1/4 NE 1/4 Sec. 3 T. 4S R. 68W
Ninjaed but I can save it
The length of a side of a township is 6 miles which is 48 furlongs . In surveying this becomes480 chains. Sections are therefore 8 furlongs or 80 chains each side.
*Link to #43740 is “United States system”
The Beginning Point of the US Public Land Survey is near East Liverpool, Ohio, my hometown, right on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The exact spot is now underwater.
The Dominion Lands Survey was conducted by the federal government in the three prairie provinces. The base unit is a township, arranged in a checkerboard pattern, numbered in ranges. The starting points are the four north-south meridians. All land can therefore be defined as the number of its township, its range, and its location west of a given meridian.
Ongoing quibble
Chapter 4 of the official outline of SI measures, Table 8 on p. 145 lists “Non-SI units that are accepted for use with the SI”.
The entry for area is the hectare, not acre.
https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si-brochure/SI-Brochure-9.pdf
If you rearrange the letters, they spell “the acre”. 
The siege of Acre lasted for nearly two years (1189-1191) and resulted eventually in a victory for King Guy of Jerusalem and a set-back for Saladin.
Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy by three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, and attacked 52 times.
The current population of Jerusalem is about 900,000. 64% of the population identify as Jewish, 34% as Muslim, and 2% as Christian.
Acre (or Akka), Israel, is a coastal city in the very north of the country. Acre is the holiest city of the Bahá’í Faith (religion) and receives many pilgrims of that faith every year. Acre’s Old City has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In 2008, the Bahai holy places in Acre and Haifa were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) came on pilgrimage to the Holy Land passing through Acre. Marco Polo (1254–1324) sailed from Venice to Acre in 1271. Ella German (born 1937), girlfriend of Lee Harvey Oswald, moved to Akko sometime between 1993 and 2013.
The UNESCO World Heritage List currently has 1092 locales, which can be found in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The first list, released in 1978, had 12 entries which were located in 7 different countries. Both Canada and the United States had two entries on that first list. L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park and Nahanni National Park were the locations found in Canada, while Mesa Verde National Park and Yellowstone National Park were the entries found in the USA.
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park marks the only confirmed Norse or Viking site in North America outside of settlements found in Greenland. The ruins there date to around 1000 AD, less than a century before the Norman Conquest of England.
The Ilulissat Icefjord, a fjord in western Greenland, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At its eastern end, the Jakobshavn Glacier that produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs.
Titanic is a 1997 Broadway musical about the ship that hit the iceberg,with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone.It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for, including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston’s second for both).
RMS *Titanic *was, at the time she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg, suffering from a low-grade coal-bunker fire. The sinking of the White Star luxury liner presumably extinguished the fire.
“RMS” stands for Royal Mail Ship, a vessel that carries mail under contract to the Royal Mail. ny vessel designated as “RMS” has the right to fly both the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing and to include the Royal Mail “crown” insignia with any identifying device and/or design for the ship. It was used by many shipping lines, but is often associated in particular with the White Star Line (which operated RMS Titanic), Cunard Line, Royal Mail Lines and Union-Castle Line.
ETA: Fun fact: The swimming pool on the Titanic is still full!
In mathematics, RMS, root mean square, is the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of a set of values, used as a measure of the typical magnitude of a set of numbers, regardless of their sign.
“Crown prosecutor” is the title used in Canada and many other Commonwealth realms to refer to the lawyers of the public prosecutions service.
Maple syrup is made from the sap of certain species of maple tree, particularly in colder climates. The trees store starches in their trunks and roots during the colder months, and convert the starches to sugars. As temperatures rise in late winter and early spring, and the trees’ sugary sap “rises,” it can be tapped from the trees, and then boiled down to create maple syrup.
The maple syrup industry is concentrated in the Canadian province of Quebec, which is responsible for about 70% of the world’s production.
(There! Tied the near-simulposts by Bullitt and Northern Piper together. 
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Maple Syrup Snow Candy is a simple candy recipe mentioned in Laura Ingall Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie. Hot maple syrup is poured over snow to make a taffy like candy.
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