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  2. Prime meridian (Greenwich) - Wikipedia

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    The astronomical longitude of the Greenwich prime meridian was found to be 0.19″ ± 0.47″ E, i.e. the plane defined by the local vertical on the Greenwich prime meridian and the plane passing through Earth's rotation axis on the ITRF zero meridian are effectively parallel.

  3. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. bowpicker A gillnetter that fishes by deploying a gillnet from her bow. bowse To pull or hoist. bow sea Seas approaching a vessel from between 15° and 75° to port or starboard. [24] bows on Said of a vessel directly approaching an observer, e.g., "The ship approached us bows ...

  4. Apsis - Wikipedia

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    The apsides refer to the farthest (2) and nearest (3) points reached by an orbiting planetary body (2 and 3) with respect to a primary, or host, body (1). An apsis (from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís) 'arch, vault'; pl. apsides / ˈ æ p s ɪ ˌ d iː z / AP-sih-deez) [1] [2] is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.

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  6. List of prime numbers - Wikipedia

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    All prime numbers from 31 to 6,469,693,189 for free download. Lists of Primes at the Prime Pages. The Nth Prime Page Nth prime through n=10^12, pi(x) through x=3*10^13, Random primes in same range. Interface to a list of the first 98 million primes (primes less than 2,000,000,000) Weisstein, Eric W. "Prime Number Sequences". MathWorld.

  7. International Date Line - Wikipedia

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    Around the June solstice, the first area would be any place within the Kamchatka Time Zone (UTC+12:00) that is far enough north to experience midnight sun on the given date. At the equinoxes, the first place to see daylight would be the uninhabited Millennium Island in Kiribati, which is the easternmost land located west of the IDL. [citation ...

  8. Prime Rib vs. Standing Rib Roast: What’s the Difference? - AOL

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    Note that the term “prime” does not reference the USDA grading system, which dictates that prime beef must contain eight to 13% fat. Rather, the term is called “prime” because it comes ...

  9. When is the winter solstice? A guide to the shortest day of ...

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    When daylight saving time ends and the clocks "fall back" each fall, it feels like the amount of daylight is getting shorter and shorter. This is true. This is true.