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    Sundial (redirect from Sun dial)
    the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the dial) and a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto the dial. As the...
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  • Sun Dial (occasionally spelled Sundial) is a British psychedelic rock band formed in 1990 by Gary Ramon. The precursor to Sun Dial was Ramon's the Modern...
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  • Tampa, Florida (closed) Georgia Polaris, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Sun Dial, Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta (no longer revolves after 2017 accident)...
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    celestial equator, declination, and the meridian. It can be used as a sun dial to tell time, if the approximate latitude and season is known, or to tell...
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    The Phoenician sundial is a 2,000 year old scaphe sundial discovered in Umm al-Amad, Lebanon. It was found in two fragments, 80 meters apart. The first...
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    are much larger. The Sundial Bridge gnomon's shadow is cast upon a large dial to the north of the bridge. The shadow cast by the tower is said to be exactly...
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    a cobblestone mosaic, dating from 1930, which forms a gigantic sun dial . The sun dial is calibrated to UTC+1, meaning that the reading is inaccurate...
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    doing business as Henkel North American Consumer Goods and formerly The Dial Corporation, is an American company based in Stamford, Connecticut. It is...
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    Mathematica was one describing a natural and easy way of delineating sun-dials upon any surface, however positioned, which the author states he invented...
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  • engineer, clepsydra with hands and dial. Andronikos of Kyrrhos (1st century BC), Greek engineer, clepsydra and sun dial. Zhang Heng (78–139), Chinese mathematician...
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