first meridian

The one hundred and first meridian was passed.

He therefore desired that the new nation's capital city should contain a new "first meridian".

In the morning of the 29th, he crossed his first meridian, having circumnavigated the globe in the direction from east to west.

The unit also changed its name: First Meridian Squadron.

According to Indian astronomy, the first meridian of longitude passes through Ujjain.

"Go for the first meridian.

The first meridian.

First meridian."

Since the 4th century B.C. the city has marked the first meridian of longitude in Hindu geography.

"Yes," he continued, with a contemptuous smile, "the blowing up of the first meridian is bound to raise a howl of execration."

By this date, the Provisional District of Athabasca had extended as far west as the first meridian.

First Meridian Mortgage (successor)

This was the first Meridian Cup under a new format; the two confederations were pitted against each other, whereas in past tournaments individual countries from said confederations competed.

Range numbers recommence with Range 1 at each meridian and increase to the west (also east of First Meridian and Coast Meridian).

Other launch day programmes included Michael Palin's documentary First Night on Meridian, the first Meridian News bulletins and the movie Best Defense.

It sits astride the First Meridian at Greenwich, where time is said to begin, and will house under its record-setting 20-acre roof a world's fairlike pageant showcasing 21st-century Britain.

The Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit or CRWU was the common name for the First Meridian Squadron, the unit's formal name, which had been disbanded in 2000.

Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant specified the first meridian in his 1791 "Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States . . .".

Angel of the Resurrection was commissioned from Tiffany for the First Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church in 1901 by Mary Lord Harrison in memory of her husband, President Benjamin Harrison.

In Saskatchewan roads near the Manitoba border would begin with 1 as they would be west of the prime or first meridian, then the range numbers would be west of the second and finally west of the 3rd meridian.

The reason for building the observatory here was that it was the centre of Hindu Astronomy since ancient times and it was located on the prime or first meridian (of longitude) established on the canons of Hindu astronomy.

But if Father Caspar had decided to ignore the decree of Louis XIII and had established his first meridian, say, at Bologna, then the Daphne would have been anchored more or less between Samoa and Tahiti.

And He took them here because, if the highest mountains of the earth are around the first meridian, between Jerusalem and Isla de Hierro, certainly the marine abysses the most deep must be here, on the antimeridian, for reasons of symmetry."

The first Meridian satellite was launched in 2006 and two of the six launched so far have failed - Meridian 2 due a problem with the Fregat upper stage and Meridian 5 due to a problem with the third stage motor.