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Answer for the clue "An imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator ", 8 letters:
meridian

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Population (2000): 1491 Housing Units (2000): 600 Land area (2000): 2.163088 sq. miles (5.602372 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.005137 sq. miles (0.013304 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.168225 sq. miles (5.615676 sq. km) FIPS code: 47760 Located within: Texas ...

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Meridian was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics . It was written by Barbara Kesel , and penciled by a number of artists including Joshua Middleton and Steve McNiven . Meridian ran for 44 issues, from July of 2000 to April of 2004 .

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Meridian \Me*rid"i*an\, a. [F. m['e]ridien, L. meridianus pertaining to noon, fr. meridies noon, midday, for older medidies; medius mid, middle + dies day. See Mid , and Diurnal .] Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, ...

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Meridian and her brother, along with several dozen others, had come east from the area around the coastal village of March Brume to serve the Federation in this one.

This obvious difference marked the two portions of the empire with a distinction of colors, which, though it was in some degree concealed during the meridian splendor of prosperity, became gradually more visible, as the shades of night descended upon the Roman world.

Meridian, entelechy of the seventh sphere, lord of dream and shadow, faced his would-be assassin little strengthened.

And without glancing at the meridians on the side of the chart, Gundy gave the latitude and longitude.

What Cyrus Harding was to do to ascertain the passage of the sun at the meridian of the island, without an instrument of any sort, Herbert could not guess.

Cyrus Harding announced this result to his companions, and taking into consideration errors of observation, as he had done for the latitude, he believed he could positively affirm that the position of Lincoln Island was between the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh parallel, and between the hundred and fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of the meridian of Greenwich.

Their lands lay along the river Liger between its confluence with the Caris and a point on about the same meridian of longitude as modern Paris.

His eyes were no longer focused on meridians, parallels, and rhumb lines.

Atlantic and the 100th meridian west, clover seeds may be sown in one form or another from early spring until the early autumn without incurring much hazard from winter killing in the young plants, but here also early spring sowing will prove the most satisfactory.

Payment for the turtle and the bottles of Old Veuve was performed apart with Benjamin, while Simeon Fenellan strolled out of the house, questioning a tumbled mind as to what description of suitable entertainment, which would be dancing and flirting and fal-lallery in the season of youth, London City could provide near meridian hours for a man of middle age carrying his bottle of champagne, like a guest of an oldfashioned wedding-breakfast.

So I spoke readily enough with the captain of my vessel about the sea compass and the meridian compass, the astrolabe and the cross-staff, but when I discoursed with him upon eccentricity and parallax, he told me in a few words that he was master of ebbs or floods and not of instruments.

So, referring again to the time when the Sun entered the Autumnal Equinox, there are nine remarkable Stars that come to the meridian nearly at the same time, rising as Libra sets, and so seeming to chase that Constellation.

In such instances, the beautifying tinges of romance, that streak and flush the horizon, neither fade into the grayness of fact, nor die into the darkness of neglect, but now broaden and deepen into the blue of meridian assurance, now clarify and ascend into the starlight of faith and mystery.

SASHA would be leaving four rolls of microfilm, fifty exposures to a roll, in a hollowed-out brick hidden in the bushes behind the James Buchanan statue in Meridian Hill Park.

By the righteousness of God, the True One, the testimony shown forth by His Remembrance is like unto a sun which the hand of the merciful Lord hath raised high in the midmost heart of the heaven, wherefrom it shineth in the plenitude of its meridian splendour.