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.
Famed British author Charles Dickens was born Charles John Huffam Dickens on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on the southern coast of England. He was the second of eight children. His father, John Dickens, was a naval clerk who dreamed of striking it rich.