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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 Independent - London; 12/26/1999; Charles Jennings; 717 words
; ... took the Greenwich Meridian as its starting ... charts, which set longitude 0 at Greenwich ... exactly, was the prime meridian on which all this ... Greenwich". This is longitude 0, and on one side ... would mark the prime meridian just as well. Except ... hadn't colluded, then longitude 0 ...
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Use latitude and longitude to find the mummies! (Geography Smart).
Junior Scholastic; 9/3/2001; 354 words
; ... meet) the equator. Longitude: Lines of longitude measure distance ... west of the prime meridian (see globe B). The prime meridian, an imaginary line ... is at 0[degrees] longitude. Longitude increases ... reach the 1800 meridian, which is in the ... Ocean. All lines of ...
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Find it! How to use latitude and longitude.(Geoskills)
Junior Scholastic; 9/1/2003; 357 words
; ... put imaginary lines on maps to find places. These ... called latitude and longitude. Here's how they work ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Longitude: Lines of longitude measure distance east and west of the prime meridian, an imaginary line that ... globe B). The prime meridian is at 0[degrees] ...
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Danger: hurricane!(Using Latitude and Longitude)(Brief article)
Junior Scholastic; 9/17/2007; 339 words
; ... globe). The prime meridian is at 0[degrees] longitude. As you travel east ... to the 180[degrees] meridian in the Pacific Ocean. All longitude lines meet at the ... latitude] 2. the prime meridian (0[degrees] longitude) 3. degrees 4. Miami ...
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A reader's inquiry: regarding impact of continental drift on present longitude.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
Point of Beginning; 1/1/2004; 787 words
; ... called an Epoch). The maps do not really look different ... drifts, does the zero meridian of longitude drift with it? In other words, is the zero meridian defined by some permanent ... the ground? (If zero meridian does not drift with the ... boundaries defined by longitude, such as the ...
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INSIDER'S GUIDE; Attitude And Longitude
The Washington Post; 2/6/2000; 550 words
; ... called the American Meridian, a geographical ... Bottom, the American Meridian had a more prosaic ... Congress authorized the meridian in the Naval appropriations ... either the French meridian at Paris or the British meridian at Greenwich to measure longitude. Meridians were ...
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STORY OF SEA CLOCK INVENTOR GIVES US A FIX ON LONGITUDE.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/31/1996; 787 words
; ... words ``latitude and longitude'' fit together like ... what latitude and longitude means in scientific ... understood latitude, but longitude was a guessing game ... mid-ocean could not read longitude from the sun and ... best-selling book, Longitude: The True Story ... the challenge of ...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
et Cetera; 1/1/1996; Levinson, Martin H; 476 words
; Dava Sobel. Longitude: The True Story of ... concentric circles. The meridians of longitude loop from the North ... To measure longitude meridians one needs to know what ... another place of known longitude - at the very same ... fifteen degrees of longitude). Precise knowledge ...
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Genius who was ahead of his time; LONGITUDE HERO THE WORLD ALMOST FORGOT.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England); 1/4/2000; Jones, Gary; 721 words
; ... of establishing a ship's longitude. Harrison, a self-taught ... as establishing Greenwich meridian as the world's prime line of longitude - and ensuring the supremacy ... tuned into Channel 4 to watch Longitude, the second and final part ... difference marks 15 degrees of longitude.) But it ...
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Sky Watch: The Longitude and Short of Navigation
The Washington Post; 9/29/1998; Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.; 770 words
; ... captains of yore meticulously used sky maps (which were more accurate than land maps), the planets, the sun and the moon ... problem, but they had trouble with longitude. Literally, time was of the essence ... more precise notion of the vessel's longitude and could keep on course. Clocks ...
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