Five grams. The nickel was the first U.S. coin to have its weight expressed in round metric units, back in 1866.    Yes, efforts to break this country free of the â¦ ridiculous pound-foot-fortnight-bushel system of measurement have been going on for nearly 150 years.
Dickens, Nebraska. Dickens is an unincorporated community in southwestern Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It lies along Nebraska Highway 23 southwest of the city of North Platte, the county seat of Lincoln County. Its elevation is 3,136 feet (956 m). The community is named for Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in the coastal regions of Kent, a county in southeast England. Dickensâs father, John, was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When Dickens was nine, his family moved to London.