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The Longitude Act 1714 (13 Ann. c. 14), also known as the Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1713, was an act of Parliament of Great Britain passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and offered monetary rewards ( Longitude rewards ) for anyone who could find a simple and practical method ...
Credit: Kevin Mazur, Courtesy of the Prince Estate The Welcome 2 America tour launched in December 2010 and ran through April 2012 (including a memorable 21-date stint at the Forum in Los Angeles ...
Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC first proposed a system of latitude and longitude for a map of the world. His prime meridian (line of longitude) passed through Alexandria and Rhodes, while his parallels (lines of latitude) were not regularly spaced, but passed through known locations, often at the expense of being straight lines. [1]
Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair 'clear' and voyance 'vision') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".
Established by Queen Anne the Longitude Act 1714 named 24 Commissioners of Longitude, key figures from politics, the Navy, astronomy and mathematics. [1] However, the Board did not meet until at least 1737 [2] when interest grew in John Harrison's marine timekeeper. The Board administered prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device ...
Howell estimates his group has submitted around 65,000 requests to federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act, a law that governs public access to records produced by the government.
The purpose of these two 1980s-era programs was "so that there was no way you could 'double dip' into both a federal pension and Social Security," explains Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst.
Stefan Ossowiecki (Moscow, 22 or 26 August 1877 – Warsaw, 5 August 1944) was a Polish [citation needed] engineer who was, during his lifetime, promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics. [1] Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustav Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet ...