Made by the us britain and the e. U. In support of the prodemocracy protesters who are opposing an extradition bill. Dozens of people have been killed in the indian city of mumbai after terentia monsoon downpours caused the wall to collapse. The rains also course travel chaos flooding roads and motor logging train tracks weather agencies say the area was hit by at least 35. 00 centimeters of rain. Britain france and germany say they wont for now move to reimpose tank sions on iran after tehran announced it had a mass more enriched uranium than was permitted the uns Nuclear Watchdog has confirmed iran has broken the limits set by the 2015 nuclear deal this is terrans 1st major departure from the accord. An excerpt from the logbook of captain james cook. Wednesday september the 60 were in the utmost danger im sorry convinced that mr stevens chalk is incorrect and not mine we turn to the northeast in the belief that this was the best direction in which to clear the coast the night was dark and sunda miking and rain as day dawned dangerous breakers could be seen on the coast in heavy seas swept over the full day. With the wind turning more and more in an easterly direction it was going to be able to maintain a slight distance from the reach what made our situation even more along with the loss of the main topsail which was torn up we have no visible contact with the discovery which was saving some distance away to the moon and going to have mercy on ourselves. British lives on the river thames several kilometers downstream from london for centuries it has been the heart of brick youssif and he was from here the great naval figures like Francis Drake james koch and lord nelson set out to conquer the 7 seas and he had to 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 familiar to sail as the world over the prime meridian. Which divides the earth into an eastern and the western half runs through greenwich. In 1675 so Christopher Wren the architect who designed supports cathedral built an observatory on a hill in the south part the park bench. The building was commissioned by king charles the 1st 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 longer tooted seen and thus to perfect the art of navigation. And. 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 and simply measure the angle between the sum of the horizon but what if the horizon was moving up and down the sun was obscured by clouds and how above all of the degree of luggage should be determined. Exact knowledge of the have them it was thought provide a solution to the longest huge problem. The 1st astronomer to end a service for the king in the navy was John Flamsteed night after night for more than 40 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 den but he too was unable to provide a definitive solution to the problem of determining long if you did see. What was a captain to do on cloudy nuts how. Could he fix his position on days when the moon was changing. The longest you problem was to puzzle the seafaring nations for almost another 100 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 1st that was designed by inigo joe. Jones is architecture brought the ring nacelles to. The villas of andreas served as a model when indigo jones created this building to the delight of his quick. Mathematics in structural picture of defying harmony. In 6889 queen mary the 2nd commissions a Christopher Wren to grow up fans for Royal Naval Hospital. The architects 1st draft met with disapproval because the thames would no longer be visible from queens and so men had to go back to the drawing board the result was a building comprised of 2 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 loughborough pray and one. Loyal 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 athenaum stuart and william newton. Following 851779 they renovated the originally Baroque Church in classical stuff. Made by samuel greening so. 17 it is 7 the organ is with god it is the finest in the whole looking today only be played by the musical director of the martin chapel. Viewed from the thames while mabel hospital looks quite magnificent yet it enjoyed only moderate popularity with its resident men who spent most of the adult life in the spotlight conditions that existed see found it hard in old age to get accustomed to the extravagant opulence of the rock architecture and certainly not for the daily round was marked by military drill and poor food as one old talking planed pillars colonnades unsealing frescoes dont exactly go hand in hand with pickled beef and flat a all thats been watered down. The heart of the Naval Hospital is the thank you for sat as a dining it seats more than 300 that was a mark of respect this by officers. The painted hole does food justice to its name freshness of every woman huge hole and they were all painted by james for help he worked on the room for 8 team he. Was paid 6685. 00 pounds for his after. Felt this was not enough king george the 1st was not prepared to increase for you when you ration but instead he raised the artist to the stock as the painted hole was suggestions for his masterpiece the acme of the rocking. Gene 69. 00 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 it sets since then as a Training Center for naval offices. But back to the problem detailing the degree of luggage you 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 ordinary common to from southern england John Harrison at the age of 22 John Harrison build his 1st chronometer he spent 60 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 cheap. 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 motions and that was John Harrisons great achievement. The h 4 is the size of a pocket watch and it represents the sum of harrisons skills on a 12 week trial voyage in 761 this little konami deviated from greenwich mean time by only 5 seconds. In 1904 an International Conference was held in washington d. C. At which 41 delegates from 25 nations agreed to be clad the line of long you tube on which greenwich lay as the prime meridian in doing so they merely confirmed what had long become standard nautical practice because ones harrisons method of determining long get you to gain acceptance mordred more katanga has worldwide had set the prime meridian on that chance for 200 years scientists have sought to make navigation at sea more accurate in greenwich. And today as it has done for the last 170 years every day at 1300 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 what held true for captain james cook still applies today any navigator who wants to know the exact position of his ship at sea must 1st know precisely what time it is inbred. What secrets lie behind these more. 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