Introduction: one line to rule the world -- Geographical confusion -- Absurd vanity : the world's prime meridians before c.1790 -- Declarations of independence: prime meridians in America, c.1784-1884 ...
In February 1894, a French anarchist named Martial Bourdin planned a terrorist attack on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, the site used to establish the prime meridian, the benchmark for ...
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