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Setting out from England on Sept. 2, 1979, the Transglobe Expedition tried to follow the Greenwich meridian, the imaginary line that marks 0° longitude. Fiennes and Burton, who were joined by a third explorer, Oliver Shepard, 37, for the first half of the journey, crossed the Sahara by Land Rover before meeting their ship in the Ivory Coast. In Antarctica, the three men proceeded to cross the continent, including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended...
...main purpose of the Tower of the Winds, built just before Galileo's time, was to house the Vatican's own astronomy laboratory, known as the Meridian Room. Here the progress of the light of the sun, on its eternal course around the earth, was measured as it entered through a slit in the wall. By the mid-1500s, the Julian calendar worked out by astronomers in Alexandria in 45 B.C. had fallen grievously into error. The spring solstices, for example, kept occurring two weeks early. So the same Vatican that denied Copernican theory used data compiled...
...York City material of Alive on Arrival., As I watch Forbert rehearse his road band, that innocence sparks again. Every time they run through Arrival's "Goin' Down to Laurel," the singer breaks into an exuberant, cowboy-booted shuffle. Music, including his own, is Forbert's obvious delight. A Meridian, Mississippi guitar teacher recalled him as "... an average player, but all fired up." In 1976, Forbert left home and a truck driving job to play Greenwich village coffeehouses...
...threatened nuclear disaster), Decatur, Ala. (armed Ku Kluxers on the rampage), and Meridian, Miss, (serious flooding...
...Meridian, Miss...