If you were to visit me this year by means of Google Earth, you would find yourself descending on me through a lofty tangle of masts, spars, and ropes.

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If you were to visit me this year by means of Google Earth, you would find yourself descending on me through a lofty tangle of masts, spars, and ropes.

Picnickers, yesterday, looked out from the Greenwich Observatory (or near it) over the universe (or at any rate over London).

The boom of a cannon shook my window Continue reading “Vikings come raiding again”
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Yes, Greenwich it is, not asteroid 9037 Greenwich, but the old town that is the zero point of Earth’s longitude and time.