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	Prime Meridian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greenwich Meridian established by Sir George Airy in 1851 was agreed upon as the international standard in October 1884.
		The prime meridian of the Moon lies directly in the middle of the face of the moon visible from earth and passes near the crater Bruce.
		The prime meridian of Mars is defined by the crater Airy-0.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Meridian (795 words)

	Greenwich Mean Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Noon Greenwich Mean Time is not necessarily the moment when the Sun crosses the Greenwich meridian (and reaches its highest point in the sky in Greenwich) because of Earth's uneven speed in its elliptic orbit and its axial tilt.
		As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept their timepieces on GMT in order to calculate their longitude "from the Greenwich meridian", which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees.
		Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GMT (964 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Greenwich Meridian was chosen as the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884.
		By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0 by a vote of 22 to 1 against, with 2 abstentions.
		The Meridian passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the 'initial meridian'.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/11/12/fea08.html (737 words)

	Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - What is the meridian line?
		The Greenwich Meridian was chosen as the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference, where forty-one delegates from 25 nations met in Washington DC.
		By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0º by a vote of 22 to 1 against (San Domingo), with two abstentions (France and Brazil).
		Therefore the Prime Meridian at Greenwich became the centre of world time, and will be the official starting point for the new Millennium.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /coolplanet/ontheline/explore/meridian.htm (389 words)

	Greenwich Guide - The Prime Meridian
		Greenwich Observatory was set up by King Charles II in 1675 to study means of fixing longitude, and became the acknowledged world authority on the subject.
		An International Meridian Conference was convened at Washington in 1884 and the delegates recommended to their respective governments that Greenwich should be adopted as the prime meridian.
		GMT is mean solar time, with midday defined as the at the time at which the sun crosses the Greenwich Meridian, 0 degrees longitude.
	www.greenwich-guide.org.uk /meridian.htm (527 words)

	Greenwich Meridian
		The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was founded in 1675 to observe and record the movement of heavenly bodies in an attempt to solve the longitude problem by the lunar distance method.
		In 1884 at a conference in Washington DC representatives from 25 countries voted to make Greenwich the Prime Meridian of the world as the Nautical Almanacs produced by Nevil Maskelyne, the fifth Astronomer Royal, were the most comprehensive and widely used.
		In Park Row the meridian is marked on the wall of the Chantry and by a line of studs across the road.
	www.london-footprints.co.uk /artmeridian.htm (748 words)

	England - Maritime Greenwich
		The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Greenwich is a borough of Greater London, southeastern England, on the southern bank of the Thames River.
		Greenwich is famous as the site of the prime meridian, or 0° longitude, which passes through the old Greenwich Observatory.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-EnglandGreenwich.htm (574 words)

	GMT - Greenwich Mean Time - Zulu Time - World Time Clock
		GMT is sometimes called Greenwich Meridian Time because it is measured from the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
		Greenwich is the place from where all time zones are measured.
		Greenwich Mean Time is international time, the basis of the world time clock.
	www.mthurricane.com /Greenwich_Meridian_Time_zulu.htm (174 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Locus - Meridian
		Longitude lines are called "meridians," from the Latin "meridiem," or "middle of the day," because on any meridian the sun is overhead at noon, and a meridian used as a starting point is a "prime" or "first" meridian.
		French cartographers used a meridian that ran through Paris, while a Scottish astronomer proposed a prime meridian at the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was desirable not only because it was a high, fixed point but because it was close to Jerusalem, the spiritual prime meridian of the faithful.
		The vote was laughably lopsided: 22 nations favored Greenwich, San Domingo opposed the location, and France and Brazil abstained, unwilling to vote for a British meridian but resigned to its widespread use.
	www.mappamundi.net /locus/locus_015 (1005 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - History & Culture
		As the Earth's crust is moving slightly all the time, the exact position of the Meridian shifts slightly.
		The Greenwich Meridian was chosen as the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference, where 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington DC.
		The decision, essentially, was based on the argument that by naming Greenwich as Longitude 0º, it would be advantageous to the largest number of people.
	www.ghana.co.uk /history/history/meridianline.htm (383 words)

	Greenwich England: Tourism
		Greenwich Hospital a legacy of Queen Mary and one of Sir Christopher Wren's masterpieces.
		The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is in Greenwich Park along with the National Maritime Museum and the Queens House (on which the White House in Washington DC, USA is based).
		Greenwich has a long heritage; it was the birth place of King Henry VIII and his daughters Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) and Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen).
	wwp.greenwichengland.co.uk /tourism (966 words)

	The Greenwich Meridian - Cleethorpes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Set in the Cleethorpes coastal path is a steel plate which marks the line of the Greenwich Meridian, the world's prime meridian for measuring longitude and measuring time.
		In 1884 Greenwich Meridian was established by International agreement as the line of zero longitude to be used as the standard for time reckoning throughout the world.
		For the millennium the path of the meridian through the school has been marked with a white line.
	www.cleethorpes-online.co.uk /meridian.html (218 words)

	Greenwich Meridian - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Greenwich Meridian, an imaginary line forming half a great circle and joining the north and south poles.
		Greenwich Observatory, Royal, astronomical observatory, now located in Cambridge.
		Meridian (geography), name given to an imaginary line on the Earth's surface, stretching from pole to pole.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Greenwich_Meridian.html (109 words)

	Greenwich meridian line - meridia GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		AND Meridian along 1884 Greenwich Meridian WAS the meridian as Prime the...
		Meridian The GREENWICH movement TO Greenwich Portuguese and Greenwich Prime the half line the Eat.
		Greenwich Meridian IT the THE Greenwich Meridian longitude maps, The Cambridgeshire.
	greenwich-meridian-line.harmonia.waw.pl (1742 words)

	Sundials on the Internet - the Greenwich meridian
		As time meridians are of great importance to diallists it is felt that a few notes on the history of the prime meridian will not be out of place on this page.
		Greenwich Royal Observatory was founded in 1675 by decree of King Charles II, with John Flamsteed as the first Astronomer Royal, to plot the positions and study the movements of the heavenly bodies, an essential preliminary to being able to find longitude at sea.
		In 1994 Airy's meridian became the Prime Meridian, the line of zero longitude for the whole world and the basis of the International Time Zone system.
	www.sundials.co.uk /tbmer.htm (476 words)

	The Royal Observatory Greenwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since 1884, the world has set its clocks according to the time of day on the Meridian of Greenwich, longitude 0°--an imaginary line joining the North and South Poles through the dead centre of a specialised telescope installed at the Observatory in 1851.
		In 1884 the meridian (0° longitude) at Greenwich was chosen the world's Prime Meridian, from which East-West longitude and time zones are calculated.
		Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time on the Greenwich meridian, used as the zero for longitudinal measurement, according to the Mean Sun.
	www.gmt2000.co.uk /meridian/place/plco0a1.htm (375 words)

	The Prime Meridian at Greenwich : Royal Observatory, Greenwich : Royal Observatory Greenwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1884 the Prime Meridian was defined by the position of the large “Transit Circle” telescope in the Observatory’s Meridian Building.
		By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0º by a vote of 22 to 1 against (San Domingo), with 2 abstentions (France and Brazil).
		The second was that in the late 19th century, 72% of the world's commerce depended on sea-charts which used Greenwich as the Prime Meridian.
	www.rog.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.1343 (516 words)

	Universal Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The two terms are often used loosely to refer to time kept on the Greenwich meridian (longitude zero), five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
		It is affected by small variations in the rotation of the Earth, and can differ slightly from the civil time on the Greenwich meridian.
		Greenwich Mean Time is a widely used historical term, but one that has been used in several ways.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/UT.html (683 words)

	Maps, prime meridian
		The prime meridian is the meridian of zero longitude, the base line from which longitude is measured; although usually called the first or prime meridian it is the zeroeth.
		The Greenwich Meridian was established by John Flamsteed, born Denby, Derbyshire 1646, died 1719, 1st Astronomer Royal, 1675; he held the position to 1719.
		The first series of charts to use the Greenwich meridian systematically was the Atlantic Neptune, of the east coast of America, by J F W DesBarres, published 1784.
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/meridian.htm (1650 words)

	History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich : History of the Museum : Visit us : National Maritime Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world.
		The Prime Meridian is defined by the position of the large 'Transit Circle' telescope in the Observatory's Meridian Building.
		By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0º by a vote of 22 in favour to 1 against (San Domingo), with two abstentions (France and Brazil).
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server.php?show=conWebDoc.13496&navId=005000002 (1024 words)

	George the third's Meridian at Kew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There have been many meridians across the globe and all have now given way to the International Reference Meridian, 102.5 meters east of the Greenwich Meridian.
		There are meridians through Paris, Berlin and the Old Naval Observatory in Washington DC, now the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.
		Perhaps the most quixotic meridian passes through the Old Kew Observatory in west London, set up by King George the Third, in time to measure the transit of Venus in 1769.
	www.meridianline.com /kew_meridian.htm (192 words)

	Stuffo "How Time Works" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Everyone on the planet wants the sun to be at its highest point in the sky (crossing the meridian) at noon.
		This point is known as the Greenwich Meridian or the Prime Meridian.
		A bunch of astronomers declared the Greenwich Observatory to be the prime meridian at an 1884 conference.
	www.stuffo.com /time3.htm (261 words)

	Swavesey: Village in Cambridgeshire England on the Greenwich Meridian line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Swavesey, 10 miles N.W. of Cambridge, is an active thriving community which just happens to be half way on The Meridian Line as it goes through England.
		It has an interesting history, having been a mediaeval town; a commercial port based on a navigation drain to the north, down which boats could travel from the River Ouse.
		Greenwich Meridian Line passes close by to the north of the church with a marker on the roadside.
	www.meridianline.com /swavesey.htm (149 words)

	Public speaking and communication skills in Greenwich with Meridian Speakers
		Public speaking and communication skills in Greenwich with Meridian Speakers
		Meridian Speakers is a local club in Greenwich where you can develop public speaking confidence in a supportive learning environment.
		Guests are always welcome as we meet twice a month in Greenwich to develop our communication and presentation skills.
	www.meridianspeakers.org (103 words)

	eBay - greenwich meridian, UK Great Britain, Publications Supplies items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		GB 1984 Greenwich Meridian set 4v Unmounted Mint
		GB 1984 Greenwich Meridian Pres Pack no 154
		GB 1984 FDC Greenwich Meridian Special handstamp Stamps
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=greenwich+meridian&... (364 words)

	Greenwich Meridan, Tracing its History
		hemispheres, the Greenwich Meridian divides the East from the West.
		the convergence of meridians of longitude towards the poles, Bradley's Meridian is
		One meridian marker, The Chingford Pillar, was erected in 1824 on the edge of
	gpsinformation.net /main/greenwich.htm (1827 words)

	Prime Meridian - Greenwich Time
		As governments, both federal and municipal, have geared up post Sept. 11, many have turned to Columbia's Meridian Medical Technologies for their popular auto-injectors.
		James H. Miller, Meridian's chairman, president and CEO, recently discussed the firm's products and its plans for the future.
		You have gotten some press since Sept. 11 for your government contracts, but that's not all you do.
	www.greenwichtime.com /business/bal-question0211,0,5208433.story (906 words)

	Greenwich Meridian Silver Proof - The Washington Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When original Greenwich Meridian brass line was replaced in 1998, it was preserved for use in a small number of coins commemorating Greenwich as the center of world time.
		Since 1884, at the height of the British Empire, the Meridian Line in Greenwich, England, has been the marker for longitude 0 degrees.
		When the original brass line was replaced in 1998, it was preserved for use in a small number of coins commemorating Greenwich as the center of world time.
	www.washingtonmint.com /item_display.asp?PN=1801446 (333 words)

	Greenwich mean time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time(GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the
		Greenwich Meanings: Clocks and Things in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction.(Greenwich Mean Time in 20th century literature)
		A mix of mean times -- Jack and the meridian.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0821775 (246 words)

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