Re: Strangelove

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>>The Brits of course managed to wrestle
>>from the French the meridian line. I don't know the story behind that >>but I have a vague memory of national prestige and mariti=
me supremacy >>in the nineteenth century being in there somewhere.

It's more like the 17th Century. The Greenwich Meridian passes directly
through the (old) Royal Observatory at ... Greenwich.

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Hugh Stewart McKenna    ahipc1j.smcken01@eds.com

The above are entirely my own opinions.

Any other opinions are entirely someone else's opinions

 ( unless I change my mind )

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