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Posted By: MooMoo <somewhatodd@mac.com> In Response To: London, Chelsea Bridge, and Seven Dials (Heady)
Date: 17 June 2001, 12:33
> This is probably purely coincidential, but I think it's pretty
> interesting.
> I was about to start reading Edward Rutherfurd's novel London , and as I
> glanced over the maps at the beginning of the book, I noted something that
> immediately cought my attention: there's a district north of Westminster,
> in London, called "Seven Dials". The name actually refers to a
> column with six sundials; the seventh "dial" is the column
> itself. More info about is can be found here . Note that you can almost
> form the Seven Dials' longitude and latitude with the numbers in our
> dials ;-)
> But there's more; as I examined the map of London, I found that there's a
> district soutwest of Seven Dials which is called "Chelsea". I
> checked out MapQuest, and surely enough, there's a bridge in that area
> which is called "Chelsea Bridge".
> And now for some random tidbits about the above:
> - The Seven Dials are located at an intersection ; three streets cross
> the intersection, and one leads to it. That means you can go in seven
> different directions.
> - According to MapQuest, it takes seven minutes to go from Chelsea
> Bridge to Seven Dials ;-)
> - Sundials are a kind of horologia, according to this page . The term
> "horologium" has been used by Bungie in the past.
> I'd be glad if this led to somewhere, but it appears to me like, at best,
> an interesting coincidence. Then again, the last time I thought I was
> babbling meaningless stuff , I was actually quite close from the truth :-)
> -Heady
Here's some more info. The word Horologium was used by bungie when when 2 wierd signs turned up outside a bungie fanfest in New York.
They were
Horologium
192LY388
and...
Vulpecula
56LY718
I looked up Vulpecula, it's a constellation.
This site has lots of info on it, including it's best known stars, seven of them at that :-)
And many tables worth of good ol numbers for us to play with. Have fun!
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