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greenwich
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
town on the south bank of the Thames adjoining London, Old English Grenewic (964), literally "Green Harbor." The Royal Observatory there founded June 22, 1675, by King Charles II specifically to solve the problem of finding longitude while at sea.\n
\nIn October 1884, at the behest of the President of the U.S.A., 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., for the International Meridian Conference. They decided to adopt a single world meridian, passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the observatory at Greenwich, as the basis of calculation for all longitude and a worldwide 24-hour clock. The Greenwich motion passed 22-1; San Domingo voted against it; France and Brazil abstained. Greenwich Village quarter of New York City has been symbolic of "American bohemia" at least since 1903.
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Housing Units (2000): 852
Land area (2000): 1.485456 sq. miles (3.847314 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.485456 sq. miles (3.847314 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30675
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.091396 N, 73.497199 W
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Housing Units (2000): 610
Land area (2000): 1.356780 sq. miles (3.514045 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017465 sq. miles (0.045234 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.374245 sq. miles (3.559279 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32368
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.030877 N, 82.517181 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44837
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Wikipedia
Greenwich (, , or )) is an early-established district of today's London, England, centred 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east south-east of Charing Cross. The town lends its name to the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Greenwich is generally described as being part of South-east London and sometimes as being part of East London. It is also one of the five boroughs of the London Docklands, connected to areas with docks of London historically by river and today to Canary Wharf and other buildings by the East London Line.
Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became the site of a royal palace, the Palace of Placentia from the 15th century, and was the birthplace of many Tudors, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The palace fell into disrepair during the English Civil War and was rebuilt as the Royal Naval Hospital for Sailors by Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor. These buildings became the Royal Naval College in 1873, and they remained an establishment for military education until 1998 when they passed into the hands of the Greenwich Foundation. The historic rooms within these buildings remain open to the public; other buildings are used by University of Greenwich and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
The town became a popular resort in the 18th century and many grand houses were built there, such as Vanbrugh Castle (1717) established on Maze Hill, next to the park. From the Georgian period estates of houses were constructed above the town centre. The maritime connections of Greenwich were celebrated in the 20th century, with the siting of the Cutty Sark and Gipsy Moth IV next to the river front, and the National Maritime Museum in the former buildings of the Royal Hospital School in 1934. Greenwich formed part of Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created.
Greenwich is a district of London, England
Greenwich may also refer to:
- Royal Borough of Greenwich, current local government district
- Greenwich District (Metropolis), former local government district, 1855–1900
- Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, former local government district, 1900–1965
Greenwich was a parliamentary constituency in South-East London, which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1997 by the first past the post system.
Greenwich is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Greenwich (born 1980), Australian activist and politician
- Ellie Greenwich (1940–2009), American singer, songwriter and record producer
- Sonny Greenwich (born 1936), Canadian musician
Greenwich is the official state soil of Delaware. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, "The Greenwich series consists of very deep, well-drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy marine and old alluvial sediments overlain by a thin mantle of sediments that have a high content of silt."
The Greenwich Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Greenwich, Connecticut via the New Haven Line and is the first station on that line in the state of Connecticut. Usually served by Stamford-based local trains, the station also is the first/last stop for many Connecticut Department of Transportation-funded expresses originating at New Haven, Bridgeport, or South Norwalk.
Greenwich is 28.1 miles from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time from Grand Central is 57 minutes (though expresses run as fast as 38 minutes).
As of August 2006, weekday commuter ridership was 2,804, and there are 1,274 parking spots (none owned by the state, unlike most other railroad stations in Connecticut).
Usage examples of "greenwich".
CHAPTER 30 MONDAY, 13 MAY 1143 GREENWICH MEAN TIME bohai haixia strait USS tampa 1943 beijing time The noise of the explosions was loud, even through two inches of HY-80 high-yield steel hull plating.
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He was an old Greenwich outdoor pensioner, had lost one leg in the battle of Camperdown, had been in America in his youth, and indeed had been quite a rover, but for many years past had settled himself down in his native village, not far distant, where he lived very independently on his pension and some other small annual sums, amounting in all to about L 40.
Born Rosalinda Banks, of the Chilicothe, Ohio, Bankses, with no assets beyond a lovely face, a superb figure and a mild talent for vers libre, she had come to Greenwich Village to seek her fortune and had found it first crack out of the box.
Not quite as raffish as Greenwich Village in its heyday, nor as freewheeling as the East Village during the Sixties, SoHo is a yeasty warren of streets, unexpected alleyways, and old two- to five-story brick buildings.
Greenwich Library, in Connecticut, for answering many queries with unfailing courtesy and for efficient service in interlibrary loans.
Before she could even turn around, he had grabbed her wrist and was dragging her between the parked cars and down the cross-street toward Greenwich Avenue.
And before a month was out Henry was to be unhorsed in the tiltyard at Greenwich, lie unconscious and get up with a wound in the leg which was never to heal: Anne, told by her stupid uncle, Norfolk, that the King was dead, was to miscarry.
Durham House on The Strand, her own apartments over the tiltyard at Greenwich Palace for the Christmas season.
Without planning it, he conjured up his very first view of Amanda, six years before on that hillside in Greenwich.
I wanted to know where Lucy was, and Jo told me Lucy was at a baf in Greenwich Village.
NSA, it was midnight deep within the computers, which operate on Greenwich Mean Time.
An orange-red sun rose in the east, where Docklands would one day be, and Richard watched the dawn breaking over forests and marshes that he kept thinking of as Greenwich and Kent and the sea.
On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple-stairs, and set out for Greenwich.