In February 1894, a French anarchist named Martial Bourdin planned a terrorist attack on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, the site used to establish the prime meridian, the benchmark for ...

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If you think your compass has been directing you true north, you are wrong. At some point over the next two weeks compasses at Greenwich will point true north for the first time in about 360 years.

- an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is zero ...

The mysterious seas reportedly cause compasses to point to the “true north” rather than the magnetic north. Theorists believe this explains how so many ships and planes have disappeared. Christopher ...