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To Matilda Bjork,You are smart to ask for clarification, especially since it appears you might be from Sweden, which uses both the kilometre and the “Scandinavian mile” (the “mil” in Swedish and Norwegian), an extremely useful—albeit informal—measurement unique to your country and Norway. The mil (pronounced like the English word “meal”) is useful when describing a city or town that is about 10 km away, as cities there are often one mil apart.English includes many words that seem to be the same thing, but they are not. For example, two words that describe measurement of distance—the English word “mile” and the Swedish/Norwegian word “mil”—are based on a Roman word (“mille”) that means one thousand, but their modern definitions and lengths are totally different. A third word, the American word “mil,” measures tiny thicknesses, and is also based on the same Roman word, because an American mil equals a thousandth of an inch.[1]Curiously, the word “kilometre” is based on a Greek word (χίλιοι/khilioi) that means “thousand.” Equal strokes for different folks!ENGLISH MILE[2]The truth is one English mile (rhymes with “smile,” and is spelled with an “e” on the end) is not equal to 10 kilometres/kilometers (American spelling). One mile is longer than a kilometre but not by much. These days, one mile officially equals 1.60934 kilometres, but rounding it to 1.6 kilometres is close enough. (In Sweden, people call a regular mile an “English mile,” to eliminate confusion. See the next entry on “mil.”)Before it was standardized, even the mile meant a variety of lengths depending on the country. At times, different lengths for a mile were called the Roman mile, the Italian mile, the Arabic mile, the Croatian mile, the British mile, the Welsh mile, the Irish mile, the German mile, the Austrian mile, the Portuguese mile, etc. Even in the United States, we use the length of the “English mile” for our mile.The standard length of a mile (“English mile”) is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and it is standardized as “exactly 1,609.344 metres,” according to Wikipedia, which describes the circuitous travels the word “mile” has taken over the millennia:“The modern English word mile derives from Middle English myle and Old English mīl, which was cognate with all other Germanic terms for "miles". These derived from the nominal ellipsis form of mīlle passus (mile) or mīlia passuum (miles), the Roman mile of one thousand paces.”NAUTICAL MILE[3]PRO TIP: Do not confuse the English mile with the nautical mile, which is a tad longer for many reasons. Thank you to Andrew Karam for pointing out a nautical mile is approximately 2000 yards, or 1.151 (English) miles, whereas an English mile is 1,760 yards.According to Wikipedia,“Today the international nautical mile is defined as exactly 1852 metres (6076 ft; 1.151 mi). The derived unit of speed is the knot, one nautical mile per hour.”MIL (as a way to measure land distance in two particular countries)[4]The so-called “Scandinavian mile” is one mil (sounds like “meal” and is spelled without an “e” on the end). The word “mil” is a Swedish and Norwegian word; for over 100 years, one mil has been legally defined by Sweden and Norway to equal 10 kilometres, or 6.2 miles. This measurement is only used in Sweden and Norway (but not in Denmark) as an informal way to reference distances. It is unofficial, and Martin Andersson of Sweden confirmed “mil” does not appear on road signs. Thanks, Martin, for the comment!WARNING #1: Nobody else around the world defines a mile in this way, though, and Swedes and Norwegians describe a mile as an “English mile” to distinguish it from their mil/the so-called “Scandinavian mile.” Visitors to these countries should be very careful when discussing distances, because a distance of “10 mil” would not be 10 miles, but more like 62 miles! (As Rolf Berglund pointed out, “mil” is used for singular and plural distances.)PRO TIP: Do not confuse Scandinavian miles (the mil) with miles used in any other country.Maybe the confusion arose because one kilometre is 1,000 meters (“kilo” = thousand), or because “mile” and “mil” look so close.MIL (in America, a way to measure thickness of a very thin material)[5]Then there is the American term “mil” (pronounced “mill”), which is one thousandth of an inch, and it is only about as thick as 0.0254 of a millimetre. It is used to measure the precise thickness of micro-thin metal or plastic sheeting, for example.In Britain, the word for the measurement equal to one thousandth of an inch is “thou” (pronounced with the same “the” sound as “thousand,” but not pronounced “thou” as in the Old English second-person pronoun).Thank you to Roger Fentiman, Kivi Lansimaki, and Scott Brickner for these tidbits on the American mil.WARNING #2: if you thought the answer itself veered wildly into pedantry—yet you still enjoyed it!—be prepared for rabbit trails galore in the many intriguing comments about other cousins of these words. Read them. This is the stuff of nightmares—and doctoral dissertations. Apparently, the words “mile,” “mil,” “mill,” or even “mille” conjure up dozens of additional interpretations depending on the country, industry, or even the person. Fascinating stuff!If you were not confused before, you surely are now!I blame the Greek and Roman Empires.—Sarah Madden, Written and © Copyrighted ♡ 9 January 2021 (updated 3 February 2021)QUESTION: I'm confused. I've learned that one mile is 10 kilometers, but when I searched, one mile was 1.6 kilometers. Can someone explain this to me? (asked 9 January 2021)Footnotes[1] Kilo- - Wikipedia[2] Mile - Wikipedia[3] Nautical mile - Wikipedia[4] Scandinavian mile - Wikipedia[5] Mil thickness compared to mm (millimeter) and inches

The Cranberries did not follow the normal path to success. They were big in America before they became successful this side of the pond.There is a Dublin bias in the Irish media, The Cranberries were probably never given the credit they deserved at the time. the fact that they bypassed the Dublin circuit and took an alternative route to breaking out as a successful band.The Cranberries first appeared on a Billboard charts, when "Dreams" entered the Alternative Songs airplay survey dated May 29, 1993. The melodic, uptempo, pop-leaning track marked the group's first of eight Alternative Songs hits, reaching No. 15 that summer. "Linger" followed as the band's first of four top 10s and third entry "Zombie" became its first of two No. 1s and its top-performing career song.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was not wrong in upholding the District Court’s decision to stay Trump’s Executive Order.The following first appeared in Dana H. Shultz's answer to What is unconstitutional about the Trump travel ban?On February 9, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously refused to overturn the District Court’s stay of Trump’s Executive Order. The court’s opinion is available at https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/dat....The Ninth Circuit stated that the government is unlikely to prevail in its argument that the Executive Order satisfies the due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.Quoting portions of the opinion (emphasis added, citations omitted):The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the Government from depriving individuals of their “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The Government may not deprive a person of one of these protected interests without providing “notice and an opportunity to respond,” or, in other words, the opportunity to present reasons not to proceed with the deprivation and have them considered.The Government has not shown that the Executive Order provides what due process requires, such as notice and a hearing prior to restricting an individual’s ability to travel….In the district court, the States argued that the Executive Order violates the procedural due process rights of various aliens in at least three independent ways. First, section 3(c) denies re-entry to certain lawful permanent residents and non-immigrant visaholders without constitutionally sufficient notice and an opportunity to respond. Second, section 3(c) prohibits certain lawful permanent residents and non-immigrant visaholders from exercising their separate and independent constitutionally protected liberty interests in travelling abroad and thereafter re-entering the United States. Third, section 5 contravenes the procedures provided by federal statute for refugees seeking asylum and related relief in the United States. The district court held generally in the TRO that the States were likely to prevail on the merits of their due process claims, without discussing or offering analysis as to any specific alleged violation….The procedural protections provided by the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause are not limited to citizens. Rather, they “appl[y] to all ‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens,” regardless of “whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.” These rights also apply to certain aliens attempting to reenter the United States after travelling abroad. The Government has provided no affirmative argument showing that the States’ procedural due process claims fail as to these categories of aliens.