http://mycoordinates.org Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-earth%e2%80%99s-shape-and-size/ http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-earth%e2%80%99s-shape-and-size/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:43:47 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=4786 “I always read that the world, land and water, was spherical... Now I observed so much divergence, that I began to hold different views about the world and I found it was not round…. but pear shaped, round except where it has a nipple, for there it is taller, or as one had a round ball and, on one side, it should be like a woman’s breast, and this nipple part is the highest and closest to Heaven….” - Kenneth C. Davis New York Times Best Seller “Don’t know much about Geography” Permissions Department, William Morrow and Company, New York, NY, 1992.]]> http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-earth%e2%80%99s-shape-and-size/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar/ http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:45:19 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1309 For reasons unknown, the “GIS/Geographic” has quietly crossed its rightful “domain It was up to 1985 that everything ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history/ http://mycoordinates.org/history/#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:59:12 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1355 By 1840 Everest was beginning to think of retiring. He was reaching completion of the Great Arc which was his initial aim but after that he had no further plans that would keep him in India. The last link in the Arc was the remeasurement of the Bidar ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith/#comments Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:08:52 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1359 For extended periods throughout his long stay in India Everest was ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-2/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-2/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:19:31 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1362 After his extended sick leave Everest reached India ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-2/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-3/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-3/#comments Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:28:11 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1365 For anyone serving in India during the 19th and early 20th century life ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-3/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-4/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-4/#comments Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:38:14 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1368   Everest arrived back in India at the end of 1821 and then had to trek ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-4/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-5/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-5/#comments Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:12:07 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1371   It was the 25 November 1820 when Everest reached Table Bay and the chance to recover from the fevers to which he had succumbed. Little is known of the year he spent there other than the work he did on the meridian arc that had been observed by M. l’Abbé de LaCaille some 70 years ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-5/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-6/ http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-6/#comments Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:26:23 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1378

JIM SMITH

George Everest entered the Bengal Artillery as a Lieutenant on 4 April 1806 before he had even reached his 16th birthday. This rapid promotion was due to the number of vacancies at that time. Little has come to light about the first few years of his service in India until the siege of Kalinjar near Allahabad in 1812...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/history-jim-smith-6/feed/ 0 http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar-2/ http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar-2/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 06:52:09 +0000 admin http://mycoordinates.org/?p=1312   Since my first educational trip to New Delhi in 1951, ...]]> http://mycoordinates.org/innovation-muneendra-kumar-2/feed/ 0