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Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian's location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain's imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0 longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had...

"Humpty Dumpty fell down the hill. If it weren't for the bottom, he'd be tumbling still."

This is a book full of wisdom. All ages can benefit from the knowledge contained in its pages. However, there is a warning. This book is intended for early teens and ninety-year-olds specifically. It is recommended that all other age groups be supervised when reading it.

Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years.

Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight...

"Humpty Dumpty fell down the hill. If it weren't for the bottom, he'd be tumbling still."

This is a book full of wisdom. All ages can benefit from the knowledge contained in its pages. However, there is a warning. This book is intended for early teens and ninety-year-olds specifically. It is recommended that all other age groups be supervised when reading it.

The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural...