When Christopher Columbus arrived in America in 1492, he thought he had reached the shores of Asia. He probably would have been able to avoid the error and anticipate the achievement if he only had an accurate timepiece and an accurate star chart. With...

Locations on Earth are determined by a gridwork of lines, one set marking distance north or south of the equator and the other marking distance east and west of the Prime Meridian, running through Greenwich, England. For centuries, determining...

Chronometer may refer to: Marine chronometer, a timekeeper used for celestial navigation Chronometer watch, a watch tested and certified to meet certain precision...

From The Bones and The Chronometer Translated from the Greek by Eurydice You have a tiny snake in your hair and a nightingale between your legs. Otherwise, you are an ordinary translator of time. An old song was blowing. The garden this time was...

The Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (Controle Officiel Suisse des Chronometres, or COSC) certified 1,255,515 mechanical and quartz chronometers in 2001--a 23.3% increase over the previous year's figure and a new record. The total number of watches registered for testing rose to 1,315,752....

Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter no longer have sleepovers. Perhaps this means they've grown up.A-Rod and Jeter have been the focus of baseball pop psychoanalysts since Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004. After three seasons of denial, Rodriguez finally fessed up Monday that they're no...

It was an impossible plan – a suicide mission. Nevertheless, the conspirators came to the old warehouse and to the young sea captain they hoped would change the course of Irish-American history. Jerry O’Keefe played his part. Dressed in somber black, he and his band...