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Greenwich, town, United States

(Encyclopedia)Greenwich grĕnˈĭch [key], residential town (2020 pop. 63,518), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on ...

borough

(Encyclopedia)borough: see city government; county. ...

Poplar, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Poplar, former metropolitan borough, SE England. See Tower Hamlets. ...

Richmond, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Richmond, former municipal borough, SE England. See Richmond upon Thames. ...

Greater Manchester

(Encyclopedia)Greater Manchester, former metropolitan county, 497 sq mi (1,288 sq km), W central England. It comprised ten administrative districts (metropolitan boroughs): Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdal...

Thames , river, England

(Encyclopedia)Thames tĕmz [key], Rom. Tamesis, principal river of England, c.210 mi (340 km) long. It rises in four headstreams (the Thames or Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach) in the Cotswold Hills, E Gloucestershire...

London Bridge

(Encyclopedia)London Bridge, granite, five-arched bridge formerly over the Thames, in London, England. It is 928 ft (283 m) long and was designed by John Rennie and built between 1824 and 1831. The early wooden bri...

Greenwich mean time

(Encyclopedia)Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time (GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the prime meridian. In 1925 th...

London, Declaration of

(Encyclopedia)London, Declaration of, international code of maritime law, especially as related to war, proposed in 1909. The declaration grew largely out of the attempt at the second of the Hague Conferences to se...

Greenwich meridian

(Encyclopedia)Greenwich meridian: see prime meridian. ...