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Todays Thought
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
-Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (16 Sep 1919-1990)
2024/09/13
Law Enforcement Guide To Satanic Cults (Happy Fri 13th)
Law Enforcement Guide To Satanic Cults
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- Public Domain Mark 1.0
A dated documentary into the oft-overlooked risk of Satanic cults and demonic activity for police and law enforcement officers.
2024/09/12
Todays Gadget
ISOTOPE GMT 0º - The Innovative International GMT
The birth of Greenwich Mean Time
Today we take the time differences between countries and distant parts of the continents as part of the fabric of the organisation of our world. However, up until the 19th century even geographically small countries such as Great Britain would use different times in different counties and towns. As late as 1879 it was estimated that around 96% of the world's shipping was using five different meridians, so travel, especially rail, and commerce needed a solution.
A solution was found at the Washington International Meridian Conference of 1884, where delegates from over twenty countries decided once and for all that the Prime Meridian should be at Greenwich in London, due to the number of shipping companies already using it and the geographical position. Then, Greenwich became a place of global importance and gave rise to Greenwich Mean Time - GMT.
As a universal watch company based in Britain, actually on the very same meridian as Greenwich, we want to recognise this centre of international horological significance with a dedicated, innovative watch, our GMT 0º.
Todays Thought
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (12 Sep 1880-1956)
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