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LIFE ON THE LINE International datelines notwithstanding, the Greenwich Meridian is the invisible line of longitude at which the year 2000 will officially begin. The photographer Brian Harris plots the line's course through England, while Charles Jennings tells its story
; THE GREENWICH Meridian is the prime meridian in the...Royal Observatory - it took the Greenwich Meridian as its starting point. Immediately...Twenty-two out of 25 voted for Greenwich as the prime meridian. Twenty-three out of 25 voted...
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Travel: The new Millennium starts here The year 2000 `officially' starts as January 1 begins on the Greenwich Meridian Line. Sebastian Doggart travelled along the GML to meet the people who live there
; "THE Greenwich Meridian Line will mark the official starting...to celebrate." Will they? Is the Greenwich Meridian Line (GML) just a geographical fiction...They were all drawn around the Greenwich Meridian Line. I've always had a hunch that...
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Letter: Greenwich meridian
; ...McCarthy in his article on the Greenwich meridian ("Time line is put on the English...December), where he states that the meridian "just" misses Louth. For many...inlaid in the pavement marking the meridian's passage through the town, together...
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Books: A vain search for jokes along the meridian Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End by Charles Jennings Little, Brown pounds 10 Sorry Meniscus: Excursions to the Millennium Dome by Iain Sinclair Profile Books pounds 3.99
; ...Charles Jennings' book on Greenwich takes the latter approach...the Observatory and the Meridian. By arranging his material...statement that officers sent to Greenwich "frequently went mad with...synchronise their watches with Greenwich, thus solving the longitude...about the present-day life of ...
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It's about TIME; It was going to be a relaxing day, but something about Greenwich, England, works against that. This is the home of the Prime Meridian, from which the world's time is measured, and if you're not careful, it can go to your head.(TRAVEL)
; ...silhouette of masts and rigging against the sky. To get to Greenwich - pronounced Gren-itch - I took the Tube from central...off the train at a stop called Cutty Sark-Maritime Greenwich, and stepped out of the new London I'd just met into...around it lay a coastal village, not a city at all. Greenwich ...
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Millennium-on-Meridian.(festival preparations in England for midnight Jan 1, 2000, Greenwich Mean Time)(Brief Article)
; ...reinventing itself as it prepares for midnight,Year 2000 -- Greenwich Mean Time. With the Labour Party gaining power in Great...on the site of an old flour mill in Battersea. On the Greenwich peninsula southeast of the city -- where the year 2000 officially starts on the meridian -- construction on newly ...
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Arts: A degree of latitude When Richard Heeps followed the Greenwich Meridian to photograph Cambridgeshire, he found beauty in the banal, says Kevin Jackson
; ...is less a particular site than an abstraction: the Greenwich Meridian Line, zero degrees longitude. More exactly, Heeps...says that he thought of his linear progress up the Meridian line as being like the narrative progression of a...
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Faith & Reason : What an apt symbol the Dome proved to be Close to the Greenwich meridian we have created a fragmented space which denies the importance of a unifying universal narrative in our lives
; ON NEW Year's Eve, it seemed as if the whole world had money to burn. As television cameras tracked the celebrations around the globe, city after city exploded in brilliant pyrotechnics. Commentators reeled off figures which gave a competitive edge to the whole affair. Who had the best firework
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Prime Time at Greenwich.(New Year's Eve in Greenwich)
; GREENWICH, WITH ITS PRIME MERIDIAN AND ITS Millennium Dome, is...the Dome, which is not in Greenwich proper but on former gasworks...what of that other, older Greenwich -- historic, royal Greenwich, with its ensemble of grand...
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Greenwich's crown slips as old glory fades away LONDON'S PARKS An Evening Standard special campaign
; IT is little wonder Greenwich has been named as a World Heritage Site. Its Royal Park alone boasts the Greenwich Meridian Line, the Royal Observatory and a...visitors who are expected to flock to Greenwich as the most appropriate place to celebrate...recognised as having global importance, ...
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