So our argument has always been that the new millennium will begin on Jan . 1 at the stroke of midnight along the Greenwich meridian.
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Before the arbitration award, Celentano secured a $ 825, 000 loan from Greenwich Meridian Co . of Nassau, Bahamas, using his exchange seat as collateral.
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The Greenwich Meridian was agreed upon at an 1884 international conference as the point where worldwide time begins, and which all other time zones reference.
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One of these is the Millennium Dome, a 20-acre structure to be built on the Greenwich meridian along the Thames to house the Millennium Festival.
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The Greenwich meridian was marked by a re-sited trig point in 1999; the marker fell into the sea in 2003 as a result of coastal erosion.
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Knowing GMT at local noon allows a navigator to use the time difference between the ship's position and the Greenwich Meridian to determine the ship's longitude.
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The plank owners also crossed the International Date Line, Equator, Greenwich Meridian, and sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Long Beach in June 1987.
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The vertical north south plane still intersects the plane of the Greenwich meridian at some angle; that angle is the astronomical longitude, calculated from star observations.
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After the erection of the Greenwich Meridian obelisk mentioned below, it appears to have acquired the cognomen of Polar Hill, but this soon dropped out of use.
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Z is the point on the observer's degrees north or south of the Equator ) and Longitude ( degrees east or west of the Greenwich Meridian ).
