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@D6130 do you have a question in mind?
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D6130
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Err, yes....sorry! Became a bit distracted there by the 'Helensburgh Area Railway History' thread!
Name three major European cities - apart from London - which lie on the Greenwich meridian.
Peterthegreat
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Cleethorpes is one!
D6130
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Sorry....doesn't quite count as a major European city I'm afraid!Cleethorpes is one!
Finding self a bit mystified by this question -- maybe there are subtleties which elude me? On the European continent, and on or very near the Greenwich meridian: I perceive nothing which could reasonably be called a "major city" -- just possibly Lourdes, if one is an intense Catholic?? The three nearest very-maybe-perhaps candidates which I can suggest, are: Argentan, French departement of Orne; Lourdes, departement of Hautes-Pyrenees; and Castellon de la Plana (a big 750mm gauge venue long ago), Spain -- a little way north of Valencia.
D6130
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One of the three is Valencia....so I'll give you that one.
By my perception, Valencia is a little over 20km. west of the meridian. Not meaning to be "snarky" here -- I genuinely don't know -- per geographers' convention, does a distance of this order, away from the "line": count as being "on" it?
Peterthegreat
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Zaragoza?
xotGD
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Scattergun approach:
Nice
Seville
Nice
Seville
Gloster
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Toulouse?
DaleCooper
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What is a major city? Cambridge?
Strat-tastic
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Edinburgh
D6130
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Sorry....I perhaps didn't make myself very clear here. I'm looking for three cities in continental Europe.
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Trondheim?
D6130
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Peterthegreat
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See posts at 14.41, 14.43 and 14.48.
Peterthegreat
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It must be in France then. Bordeaux?
D6130
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That's the one! Your turn to set the next question, Monsieur!
(For avoidance of doubt, my information for the setting of this question was obtained from Wikipedia....and we all know how accurate that can be at times!)
Peterthegreat
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Merci!That's the one! Your turn to set the next question, Monsieur!
(For avoidance of doubt, my information for the setting of this question was obtained from Wikipedia....and we all know how accurate that can be at times!)
Ida Siekmann holds which unfortunate distinction?
BrummieBobby
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I believe she was the first victim of the Berlin Wall (Died by jumping from her window in an attempt to get over the wall)
There is a memorial to her in the excellent DDR Museum in Berlin.
Peterthegreat
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You believe correctly. On the 22nd August 1961. Please build the next question.
BrummieBobby
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OK: Jim Callaghan was the first and, to date, only person to do what?
Peterthegreat
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To hold all four great offices of State. Chancellor, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Prime Minister.
BrummieBobby
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Correct
Peterthegreat
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Can I declare open floor please?
DaleCooper
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Yes you can as you asked so nicely.
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Greenheart
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Head?