The story of the man who, in the 1880s, created a unified standard for telling time--one that included the Greenwich Prime Meridian and the International Date Line--and then convinced all the world's nations to adopt it, is presented.
Time is invisible and indescribable, endlessly fascinating and universally compelling. Time is everywhere; thus nowhere. It animates the world, yet nothing survives it. We can only guess how it started, or when it will end. It is our intimate assassin. One thing it lacks, however, except in Greek...
Portuguese, he believed, had protected Goa from the tragic fate of India. Their cottage functioned as a community library of French, Spanish and Portuguese texts and their back lawn, between monsoons, had been outfitted with a modest stage and commercial lighting. Connie and her brothers used to ...