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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • The Board of Rectitude – A pine plank, formerly a fence, designated the necessary, eternal, infallible and perfectly-good standard of straight. It has declined a shed.
  • Le Grand K – A platinum-iridium cylinder that was the kilogram from 1889 to 2019, and so weighed exactly one kilogram by definition. Nobody could check it.

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