Exploring London’s Royal Observatory, the capital’s original time machine
As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of GMT in its 350th-anniversary year ...
Planetarium could honour famed Derby astronomer
A Derby community group has unveiled a vision to create a planetarium at a historic building where the celebrated astronomer John Flamsteed once lived. The Friends of 27 Queen Street want to turn the ...
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Miller, Kramer: Where time begins — a proposal to relocate the Prime Meridian to St. Paul
A better idea: why not go REALLY BIG and relocate the Prime Meridian from Greenwich, England, to Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA? What better place than the historically highest navigable point on the ...
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MP to push Ujjain as Global Prime Meridian: Mohan Yadav
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government is working to replace Greenwich in UK with Ujjain in MP as the Global Prime Meridian (GPM).
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Ghana's Economic Takeoff: Leveraging Air Transport and Innovation
Blessed with a growing and dynamic youthful population, as well as a strategic location along the Greenwich Meridian Line, ...
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Greenwich Meridian for France.
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Understanding time zones
There are 24 time zones. There is an imaginary line running through the UK called the Prime Meridian. It runs through a place in London called Greenwich. The Prime Meridian splits the world into ...
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Remembering the Washington Conference That Brought the World Standard Time
A line marks the 'Prime Meridian of the World' at Longitude 0 degrees at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich on March 26, 2012, in London. Oli Scarff/Getty Images The 1884 International Meridian ...