The location of Constantinople made it a place A where it rained nearly all of the time B where no army could ever invade where Eastern and Western cultures collided far from the influence of the Pope

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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