The Longitude Prize Sports Memorabilia perhaps strangest of all

perhaps strangest of all

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It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street

The Longitude Prize Sports Memorabilia perhaps strangest of allA Robert F. Sibert Honor Book By the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of knowing longitude, their east west location. Latitude, the north south position, was easy enough, but once out of sight of land not even the most experienced navigator had a sure method of fixing longitude. So the British Parliament offered a substantial monetary prize to whoever could invent a device