Three groups starting november third one d w its reformation day on d w. The programs when the clocks marking its five hundredth anniversary were going live to the commemoration ceremony in the back will be documentaries magazines and talk shows focusing on luther and the groundbreaking events he helped set in motion reformation day for children thirty first g. W. And accept from the log book of captain james cook. Wednesday september the sixty were in the utmost danger im sorry convinced that mr stevens chart is incorrect and not mine we turned to the northeast in the belief that this was the best direction in which to clear the coast the night was dark and fund my coming and rain as day dawned dangerous breakers could be seen on the coast in heavy seas swept over the four day. With the wind turning more and more in an easterly direction it was because the able to maintain a slight distance from the reverse what made our situation even more alone was the loss of the main topsail which was torn off we have no visible contact with the discovery which was saving some distance away to the moon and going to have messy on some. Great age lies on the river thames several kilometers downstream from london for centuries it has been the heart of brick you see family he was from here the great naval figures like Francis Drake james koch and lord nelson set out to conquer the seven seas and he had to that the english crown waited impatiently for the return of its heroes. Even though greenwich now lives in the shadow of the high rise blocks of canary wharf the name of this london suburb is still familia to sail as the world over the prime meridian which divides the earth into an eastern and a western half runs through greenwich. In sixteenth seventy five to Christopher Wren the architect who designed some poles cathedral built an observatory. On a hill in the south part of the park bench. The building was commissioned by king charles the first in order that the tables showing the movements of the celestial bodies and the positions of the fixed stars might be corrected with the greatest possible care and accuracy the aim being to determine the lines of wrong that you did see and thus to perfect the art of navigation. The problem of the time lane fixing the precise position of a ship in the vast expanses of the ocean say listen been able to work out the degree of latitude ever since antiquity they simply measure the angle between the sum of the horizon but what if the horizon was moving up and down all the sun was obscured by clouds and how above all could the degree of luggage should be to tell. They exactly knowledge of the heavens it was thought provide a solution to the longet huge problem. The first astronomer to end a service for the king in the navy was John Flamsteed night after night for more than forty years he studied the stars in the sky over grant which flamsteed recorded his observations in a unique book his atlas gillespies was the most precise astronomical one of his day but he too was unable to provide a definitive solution to the problem of determining long that you did see. What was a captain to do on Cloudy Nights how could he fix his position on days when the moon was changing. The long acute problem was to puzzle the seafaring nations for almost another hundred years today in the age of satellite navigation night after night a laser beam sabs as a reminder of the prime meridian which is an imaginary line that circles the globe from greenwich. Queens house is the oldest building in Greenwich Park commissioned by queen anne of denmark the wife of james the first it was designed by inigo joe. Jones is architecture brought the renascence to england the villas of Andreas Palladio served as a model when inigo jones created this building to the delight of his with. Mathematics in structural picture of divine harmony. In sixty eighty nine queen mary the second commissions of Christopher Wren to draw up funds for Royal Naval Hospital. The architects first draft met with disapproval because the thames would no longer have been visible from queens members so men had to go back to the drawing board the result was a building comprised of two weeks with the space center providing a clear view of the little queens house. The motto of the Royal Naval Hospital could have been aura at labadee pray and one the royal chapel was billed as a place where the veterans of the crowns navy might find salvation. The interior of the carriage was designed by james athenian stuart and william muta. Following a five hundred Seventeen Seventy nine they renovated the originally baroque judge in classical style. Made by samuel greens. Seventeen ages seven the organ is regarded as the finest in the whole of thing today the melody played by the musical director of the modern chapel. Viewed from the thames while Naval Hospital looks quite magnificent yet it enjoyed only moderate popularity with the to resit man who had spent most of the adult life in the spot and conditions that existed at sea found it hard in old age to get accustomed to the extravagant opulence of the rock architecture and certainly not when the daily round was marked by military drill and poor food as one old talking planed pillers colonnades and saving face goes dont exactly go hand in hand with pickled beef and friday all thats being voted on. The heart of the Naval Hospital is the painted for serves as a dining room it seeks more than three hundred that as a mark of respect by officers. The painted hole does food justice to its name for instance cover everyone in the huge hole and they were all painted by james for him to work on the room for eighteen months he was paid six thousand six hundred eighty five pounds for his. This is not enough king george the first was not prepared to increase for you when you ration but instead he raised the artist to the stock of. The painted hold us against for his masterpiece the acme of the rock bought in england. Eight hundred sixty nine the Royal Naval Hospital was closed down veterans of her majestys navy preferred to spend that declining years in less splendid surroundings the building became the Royal Naval College and a substance than as a Training Center for naval offices. But back to the problem determining the degree of long you tube how was it finally solved. Visitors will find the onza in the royal observatory at greenwich the puzzle was solved not by a physicist or a ron astronomer but by an ordinary carpenter from southern england John Harrison at the age of twenty two John Harrison built his first chronometer he spent sixty years of his life studying how time could be measured precisely his premise was that if a navigator at sea knew the exact time in his home port then from the difference between that time and the time on board ship he could calculate the position of the vessel in degrees latitude and long it you. For centuries no one had been able to make a clock that measured the time accurately at sea without being influenced by fluctuations in temperature by humidity well by the ships motion and that was John Harrisons great achievement. The h. Four is the size of a pocket watch and it represents the sum of harrison skills on a twelve week trial voyage in seven hundred sixty one this Little Corner deviated from greenwich mean time by only five seconds. In one thousand nine hundred four an International Conference was held in washington d. C. At which forty one delegates from twenty five nations agreed to be clad the line of long beach you dont which greenwich lay as the prime meridian in doing so they merely confirmed what had long become standard nautical practice because once harrisons method of determining long get you to gain acceptance. Of those world wide and set the prime meridian on that chance for two hundred years scientists have sought to make navigation at sea more accurate in granite. And today as it has done for the last one hundred seventy years every day at Thirteen Hundred hours greenwich mean time a red bull slides down from the top of the observatory an optical signal to all captains leaving port to set the ships chronometer. Because it would held true for captain james cook still applies today any navigator who wants to know the exact position of his ship at sea must first know precisely what time it is in red. Enter the conflict zone fronting the powerful. Six years after the overthrow of. Livia remains stable. Divided and very violent my guest this week is talking about sony Senior Advisor to the government of National Board can he ever imagine this country has a safe and fully functioning democracy. Next d. W. Followers can say so much. But some of the worlds finest florists are competing in court and in the spanish citys famous patios they let the flowers do the talking. 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