If an astronaut had been on the Moon at the time, they might have received a 400 rem (Roentgen Equivalent Man) radiation dose.

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The Wall Street Journal called it the biological equivalent of landing a man on the moon.

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A. Hayek, market theoreticians have to a large extent employed the equivalent of the Great Man theory of history to explain what makes markets tick.

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To most guys, vampires are the monster movie equivalent of that sensitive man-sponge in college who plays acoustic guitar in order to seduce chicks.

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Roughly equivalent to one vodka martini for every man, woman and child in Chicago.

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Florence's prosperous wool industry funded the Opera del Duomo, which offered 200 florins, the equivalent of two years of a carpenter's salary, to the man with the best solution.

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In other places a man who plays three guitars at the same time might be dubbed a trickster, the musical equivalent of a Three Card Monte dealer.

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Burr thinks he's found the man who has solved the mystery: Luca Turin , an eccentric scientist whose nose has the olfactory equivalent of perfect pitch.

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He said this was odd because the man must have come from a wealthy, important family to have been buried in a place that was the equivalent of London's Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral.

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