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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
13: ...he [[Palace of Placentia]] in [[Greenwich, London|Greenwich]] on Monday [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[...
19: .... Since the [[Pope Clement VII|Pope]] had previously denied him the annullment, Henry broke with the ...
58: ...lizabeth. The Latin inscription on their tomb translates to "Partners both in Throne and grave, here r...
70: ...]]'', the middle-aged Mary was played by [[Daphne Slater]]. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
19: ...er her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of Greenwich]] promised Mary to be married to [[Edward VI of E...
24: ...neck, and a jeweled satin gown, with long hanging sleeves, enveloped the infant, who could sit up but ...
31: ...h the Scots, especially since Henry VIII suspiciously tried to change the agreement so that he could p...
62: ...ds while Bothwell got some of them to sign the Ainslie Tavern Bond in which they agreed to support his...
66: ...ned her in [[Loch Leven Castle]], situated on an island in the middle of [[Loch Leven]]. Between [[Jul... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
16: ...2]] and late January of [[1533]]. She was born in Greenwich Palace, on September 7, 1533. Henry would have pr...
20: ..., glamorous, flirtatious, charismatic and religiously tolerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's ...
33: ...unimportant [[Owen Oglethorpe]], [[Bishop of Carlisle]] had to crown her. The [[communion]] was celebr...
72: ...the [[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]]. She famously declared, "I know I have the body but of a weak ...
74: ...s forced to return to Spain; the victory tremendously increased Elizabeth's popularity. The battle, ho... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
40: ...e [[Greenwich Hospital|Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich]]. - 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)
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)
24: ...eastern and western hemispheres relative to the [[Greenwich meridian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the...
32: ... not cut through any piece of land, continent or island, which is the northern limit of the Antarctic ...
34: ...[[Tierra del Fuego - Antarctica & South Atlantic Isles]] province
40: *[[Norway]]: [[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the ...
43: ... west, except for the Norwegian claim to Peter I Island (see above). - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...re than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] an...
43: time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] |
58: ... of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of ...
67: ...mon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, mo...
71: ...one's surprise. The remaining 26 counties of the island became the [[Irish Free State]], a [[constitut... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
52: ...by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartford, Connecticu...
54: ...rough the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic ...
142: ... concentrated in the "Gold Coast" towns between [[Greenwich]] and [[New Haven]] and in the [[Hartford]] subur...
167: *[[Greenwich, Connecticut|Greenwich]]
180: #[[Greenwich, Connecticut]] $74,346 - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
2: Name = Rhode Island |
3: Fullname = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
4: Flag = Rhode Island state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Rhode Island]] |
6: Seal = Rhode Island state seal.png | - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hen mean solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunicati...
6: ...tronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich.
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday ...
31: ...plies to the island of Great Britain, not to the island of [[Ireland]].
33: ...Greenwich]], that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke received his early education a...
6: ...] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Ho...
20: ...saac Newton]] entertained a considerable mutual dislike for each other. They fell out in [[1672]] when... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
142: ...infalling matter]] during the planet's birth, now slowly radiating away into space. Neptune's [[celest...
152: ...ng the [[ecliptic]] compared to the ''extremely'' slow motion of ''any'' random fixed star found in th...
160: ...ne papers" (historical documents from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]), which had apparently been misappr...
204: ...eptune's rings are much more unstable than previously thought. In particular, it seems that the ''Libe... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
10: ...ized in kidnapping boys and girls to be sold as [[slave]]s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/...
12: ... pirates and held prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Cae...
22: ...f Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish]] pirates.
29: ...re Mediterranean. In the 14th century, raids by Muslim pirates forced the Venetian Duke of [[Crete]] t...
31: ...mia]] in the first half of the 7th century. These Slavs revived the old Illyrian piratical habits and ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...thaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
20: ...ch separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not guessed at.
26: ...nd [[June 11]], [[1770]]; ''Endeavour'' was seriously damaged (and his voyage delayed almost 7 weeks) ...
39: ...vered [[South Georgia]] and the [[South Sandwich Islands]]. In the Antarctic fog, Cook and Furneaux we...
41: ... he landed at the [[Friendly Islands]], [[Easter Island]], and [[Vanuatu]], in [[1774]]. His return h... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...usands of miles of open ocean, to tiny inhabited islands, using only their own senses and knowledge, p...
15: ...ow clouds would cluster at the locations of some islands
18: ...ods, were kept as guild secrets. Generally each island maintained a guild of navigators who had very ...
20: ...ail to the Hawaiian Islands from the [[Marquesas Islands]]. In [[1973]], the [[Polynesian Voyaging So...
45: ...ort was used as the known location, currently the Greenwich Meridian or Prime Meridian is used as the known l... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...ecks. Although Christians were not allowed to buy slaves, male or female, and had few other privileges...
9: ... distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers wearing a black surcoat with a...
15: ...They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]]...
19: ...n the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights had about 7,00...
25: ...ord the King of Sicily. Their annual fee for the island was a single [[Maltese falcon]], which they ha...
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