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A Meridian, also known as a line or longitude is an imaginary line that follows the curvature of the Earth connecting the North Pole and South Pole. The position of such imaginary lines on maps and as measurement enable the establishment of an East - West position on the surface of planet Earth.

The knowledge of plotting longitude through the use of sophisticated astronomic instruments such as sextants and chronometers was well established by ancient sea faring cultures as early as the 2nd Millennium BCE as evidence by the recovery and validation of such instruments being more advanced that Roman Death Cult controlled Western technology until the mid 19th Century. It can therefore be logically presumed that sophisticated maps and charts also existed with proper spatial coordinates prior to the deliberate destruction of such knowledge beginning from the 14th Century as a means of restricting and controlling trade by the Roman Death Cult.

The decline of knowledge of plotting longitude accurately and destruction of ancient maps caused a collapse in competency in the skill of navigation as early as the 15th Century causing a “dark ages” of knowledge and trade:

(i) The Venetians and Genoese jealously guarded their instruments, charts and knowledge of plotting longitude as commercial and trade intellectual property, ensuring continued monopoly of European trade; and

(ii) Despite the funding and support by the Venetians, the English failed to acquire competent knowledge of Longitude until the inventions and work of John Harrison as late as 1773. His Marine Chronometer gave the British Navy a strategic technical edge until the start of the 20th Century; and

(iii) In 1851, the Prime Meridian of Longitude was established at the Greenwich Hospital by Sir George Airy, linking now Time and Space to the Hospital as the center of the sea and the world; and

(iv) In 1884, at an International Meridian Conference in Washington DC, Greenwich Hospital was voted as the official Prime Meridian.