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    The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for...
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    for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the world standard prime meridian due to...
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    Paris meridian abstaining) as the Prime Meridian of the world at the 1884 International Meridian Conference. All of these Greenwich meridians were located...
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    Twenty-six countries were present at the International Meridian Conference to vote on an international prime meridian. Ultimately the outcome was as follows:...
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    long-standing rival to the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the world. The "Paris meridian arc" or "French meridian arc" (French: la Méridienne de...
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    astronomical society, from 1895 to 1897. In 1884 he took part in the International Meridian Conference. Janssen died at Meudon on 23 December 1907 and was buried...
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  • the Prime Meridians that have been used, are used, or are proposed Greenwich Meridian established by the International Meridian Conference IERS Reference...
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    No international organization, nor any treaty between nations, has fixed the IDL drawn by cartographers: the 1884 International Meridian Conference explicitly...
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    d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two...
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  • as Congo Conference or West Africa Conference, The International Meridian Conference of 1884, The "International Plenipotentiary Conference to Conclude...
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