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RIP Michael Herr.
Read Dispatches after seeing a documentary / Exhibition about Tim Page.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/arts/michael-herr-author-of-a-vietnam-classic-dies-at-76.html
Or the fact that Iceland are through to the next round ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3654989/Tiny-Iceland-beats-Austria-2-1-set-England-clash.html
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2016/jun/22/austria-v-iceland-euro-2016-live
The English use Imperial units. Because; Empire. Presumably the colonials use "rebel scum" units - hence the ability to make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.