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As there are 360 degrees in a circle, the meridian on the opposite side of the earth from Greenwich, forming the other half of a circle with the one through Greenwich, is 180 ° longitude, and the others lie between 0 ° and 180 ° of West longitude in the Western Hemisphere ( West of Greenwich ) and between 0 ° and 180 ° of East longitude in the Eastern Hemisphere ( East of Greenwich ).
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
But there are big rogues in both countries.
Nobody knows how many Southerners there are in this category.
I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.
In the command centers there are special clocks ready to tick off the minutes elapsed since `` E hour ''.
The codes in the red box -- there are several of them covering various contingencies -- are contained in a sealed X-ray-proof `` unique device ''.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.
At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.
In Persia, where practically speaking there are no museums or libraries or, for that matter, hardly any books, the twins run free.
Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.
Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.
The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.
These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.
For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;
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The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.
At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.
Since there are 24 hours in a day and 360 degrees in a circle, the sun moves across the sky at a rate of 15 degrees per hour ( 360 °/ 24 hours = 15 ° per hour ).
, there are 360, 000 radios.
Over the past 360, 000 years there have been two major cycles, each culminating with two caldera-forming eruptions.
The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: " In Awal ( Bahrain ) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places.
As of the census of 2000, there were 57, 564 people, 19, 021 households, and 14, 360 families residing in the city.
This means there are 27 satellites in 3 planes inclined at 56 degrees, spanning the 360 degrees around the equator.
In 2000, there were 360, 000 Haredi Jews in the U. S. ( 7. 2 % of the total Jewish population ).
This is dubious, as " no trace has been found there of its artificial harbour for 360 warships, or of a citadel, unless the nearby hill of Silberberg is accepted as the site of such ; but there were Norsemen there around the year 1000, and the archaeological finds reveal a mixed population of Scandinavians and Slavs ".
As of the census of 2000, there were 100, 224 people, 38, 370 households, and 26, 360 families residing in the county.
On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications ; these vary from designer to designer, but might include curves for time conversions, a calendar for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 degrees around the back edge.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2, 360 people, 990 households, and 665 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2000, there were 23, 722 people, 9, 360 households, and 11, 993 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2000, there were 111, 360 people, 37, 020 households, and 29, 653 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3, 996 people, 1, 360 households, and 1, 082 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2010, there were 69, 340 people, 28, 360 households, and 19, 683 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2000, there were 122, 660 people, 47, 360 households, and 34, 667 families residing in the county.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1, 360 people, 543 households, and 382 families residing in the county.
As of the United States Census of 2000, there were 19, 360 people, 7, 681 households, and 5, 445 families residing in the county.
As of the U. S. Census in 2000, there were 3, 165 people, 1, 360 households, and 919 families residing in the county.
At the 2000 census, there were 21, 360 people, 6, 699 households, and 5, 030 families residing in the parish.
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