A woman whose 2004 assault complaint against Larry Nasser was dismissed without charges is accepting an apology from the leaders of Meridian township in Michigan.
Sir, he answered me, I have chronometers variously set to the meridians of Paris, Greenwich, and Washington, D.C. But in your honor, I'll use the one for Paris.
Which is sort of funny because this was essentially 50 years before the prime meridian was established and agreed upon on earth at the international meridian conference back in 1884.
We're in longitude 137 degrees 15' west of the meridian of Paris, and latitude 30 degrees 7' north, in other words, about 300 miles from the shores of Japan.
When you look at a modern map of annual rainfall levels within the United States, you can also more or less spot the 100th meridian line that Powell identified.