The need for a separate national meridian for the United States gradually faded, and in 1884, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur called the International Meridian Conference in Washington which selected the meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich as the international Prime Meridian.
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The 32nd meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 109°02′48″ west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich.
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On September 28, 1850, the United States adopted two primary meridians of longitude for officially use: the Greenwich Meridian (through the old Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England) for all nautical and international use, and the Washington Meridian (through the old United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.) for more accurate astronomical and domestic use.
On invitation of William III, Peter and part of the mission also went to England in January 1698, where the tsar, visited Gilbert Burnet and Edmond Halley in the Royal Observatory, the Royal Mint, the Royal Society the University of Oxford, and several shipyards and artillery plants.
Jonathan Betts MBE (born 29 January 1955) is Senior Specialist in horology at the Royal Observatory (National Maritime Museum), Greenwich, a horological scholar and author, and an expert on the first marine timekeepers created by John Harrison in the middle of the 18th century.
The establishment of the Macfarlane Observatory in 1757 was before the 1767 appearance of The Nautical Almanac based on the Prime Meridian at Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
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100th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
108th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
112th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
113th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
115th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
118th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
131st meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
135th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
141st meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
144th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
150th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
156th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
164th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
171st meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
173rd meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
178th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
20th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
29th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
30th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
31st meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
34th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
42nd meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
45th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris.
4th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
53rd meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
5th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
60th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
64th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
71st meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
73rd meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
78th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
82nd meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
96th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
97th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
One famous example of the traditional use of metal sheathing is the clipper Cutty Sark, which is preserved as a museum ship in dry-dock at Greenwich in England.
Taylor Farm Park is the site of an annual Greenwich Kennel club dog show.
Cornelius Wendell Wickersham was born on June 25, 1885 in Greenwich, Connecticut as a son of George W. Wickersham, an American lawyer and future United States Attorney General.
Richard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood (born November 25, 1927, Greenwich, Connecticut — died July 24, 1987, Palo Alto, California) was an American jazz pianist.
On the 4th of June 2011 the trike set off from Greenwich and headed south to Newhaven, cross the Channel to Dieppe and followed the original route.
Baker was born in Lambeth, then part of Surrey, England, the son of Edward William Whitley Baker, and was educated at the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich.
Sir George Hopwood Hume (1866–1946), leader of the London County Council and member of parliament for Greenwich
For NSW state elections, Greenwich is in the electorate of Lane Cove, presently held by Anthony Roberts, a member of the Liberal Party, who has held the seat since the 2003 state election.
(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.
The graphs were replaced every month and were sent to Greenwich where they were kept.
In that version, the North's apartment is located on Greenwich Place, realized in a scenic design by Jo Mielziner.
She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.
But the scientists pressed the need for much better laboratory space, so the school of naval architecture instead went to Greenwich.
The Sri Lanka Time reverted on 15 April 2006 to match Indian Standard Time calculated from the Allahabad Observatory in India 82.5 ° longitude East of Greenwich, the reference point for GMT.