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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
13: ...w Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leadin...
15: ...ation was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]...
21: ...all [[Europe]], furthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although s...
26: ...t the marriage between her mother and father was unlawful, thus making her illegitimate. She also bec...
33: ...om the line of succession in his will, which was unlawful, because it contradicted an Act of Parliamen... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[...
14: ...tionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
19: ...er her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of Greenwich]] promised Mary to be married to [[Edward VI of E...
31: The Treaties of Greenwich fell apart soon after Mary's coronation. The betr...
36: This seemed to Marie to be the only sensible solution to her troubles. In February [... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
11: ...[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] an...
16: ...2]] and late January of [[1533]]. She was born in Greenwich Palace, on September 7, 1533. Henry would have pr...
33: ...in, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s mem...
41: ... inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers until she wed.
46: ...s to the last English possession on the French mainland, [[Calais]], after the defeat of an English ex... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
11: ...visor. Although her parents bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Brit...
20: ...ard]]—in June [[1688]], for the son would, unlike Mary and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic. Som...
24: ...e the title of King. But Philip II remained King only during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions wer...
26: ...the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in ...
38: ...Princess Anne's children had died, and it seemed unlikely that William would remarry. Thus, it was dee... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
5: In New York, she lived in Greenwich Village, during which time her great popularity i... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
10: ...,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the town of Greenwich, giving them recreation for the heat of New York ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
42: ...hat made certain Government positions obtainable only through competitive written examinations. The sy...
48: ...?s behest. This established the [[Prime Meridian|Greenwich Meridian]] which is still in used today. - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
1: ...an_2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<i>The Prime Meridian, Greenwich</i>]]
2: ... is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridian.
8: ...rincipal transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian".
11: ...an solar day]], beginning at the mean midnight at Greenwich and counted on a 24-hour clock.
15: ...[Brazil]] abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]]. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ...thern Land") go back to antiquity, the first commonly accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [...
24: ...eastern and western hemispheres relative to the [[Greenwich meridian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the...
40: ...nd]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the only Antarctic claim area that is not a sector, a Nor...
46: ...; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
101: * [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s ''Antarctica'' ([[1997]]) - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
43: time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] |
58: ...ish language, Ireland". However the state is commonly referred to as the "Republic of Ireland" in orde...
69: ...public]]. This Declaration of Independence was mainly a restatement of the 1916 Proclamation with the ...
83: ...ically terminated membership of the association. Only in 1950 were the rules changed to allow [[India]...
90: ...cted for a seven-year term and can be re-elected only once. The president is largely a [[figurehead]] ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
47: ...overnments or [[county seat]]s; rather, there is only the state government and the governments of the ...
89: ...her tax-paying businesses with them, and leaving only the [[urban poor]] in the now impoverished Conne...
97: ...ed that industry, in all senses of the word, not only strengthened individual moral fiber, but also se...
99: ...ract from the [[secretary of war]], which led to enlarging his factory to 8,500 square feet (790 m&sup...
105: ...and [[tool]]s continue to be manufactured by [[Stanley Corporation]] in [[New Britain]], despite havin... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
37: ...e fact that most of the state is part of the [[mainland]], the shortened name for the state of Rhode I...
52: ...igious freedom. Under the terms of the charter, only landowners could vote. Before the [[Industrial R...
72: ...imately 12 miles off the southern coast of the mainland. Within the Bay, there are over 30 islands. Th...
74: ...d's highest point is [[Jerimoth Hill]], which is only 812 feet above sea level.
134: #[[East Greenwich, Rhode Island]] $38,593 - Time zone (34024 bytes)
6: ...tronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich.
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
33: ...Greenwich]], that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand...
35: ...], but by [[1872]] the first was centered 75?W of Greenwich with geographic borders. American and Canadian ra... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
6: ...] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Ho... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
138: Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by...
152: ...ry day; because it was stationary in the sky and only beginning the planet's yearly retrograde cycle, ...
160: ...ne papers" (historical documents from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]), which had apparently been misappr... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
27: ...iddle Ages]]. They raided the coasts, rivers and inland cities of all Western Europe as far as [[Sevil...
63: ...set up their small gangs near river estuaries, mainly to protect themselves. They recruited locals as ...
89: Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, man...
101: ...t popular as they were hard to sell and pirates, unlike the public of today, had little concept of the...
107: ...s were [[Impressment|pressganged]] and these not only received lower wages than volunteers but were sh... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...thaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
20: ...apped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistakes (such as calling [[Banks Peninsul...
26: ...collections of Australian flora and there were mainly peaceful meetings with the local Aboriginal peop...
28: ...een Australia and [[New Guinea]], again becoming only the second European to do so (the first being [[...
41: Cook almost discovered the mainland of [[Antarctica]], but turned back north towar... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ... of open ocean, to tiny inhabited islands, using only their own senses and knowledge, passed by oral t...
18: ... status, since in times of famine or difficulty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate people. Th...
45: ...ort was used as the known location, currently the Greenwich Meridian or Prime Meridian is used as the known l...
114: ...ts accurate geographic location with an error of only a few metres, and precision timing to less than ...
138: ...ww.irbs.com/bowditch Bowditch Online] - complete online edition of [[Nathaniel Bowditch]]'s ''American... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...lemagne]], Emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], enlarged Probus' hostel and added a library to it. Un...
27: ...ich|Queen's House]], [[Greenwich, London, England|Greenwich, London]]. After the siege a new city had to be b...
43: ...d by the loss of its Priories throughout Europe. Only 10% of the Order's income came from Europe, with...
46: ...tes|United States of America]]. However, it was only recognized by the Sovereign Military Order of Ma...
66: ...e granted with [[extraterritoriality]]. However, unlike [[Vatican City]], SMOM has no sovereign territ...
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