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Davie had definitely done the reading. He now knew who Professor Airy Flamsteed was named for. Had anyone ever pointed that out to the man? That his namesakes were Astronomers Royal? Surely he knew that. The Ravenclaw didn't like being captain obvious, and plus he was still pretty sulky that one of his favorite professors thought he was a bad kid who deserved detention with a bully, so Davie wasn't going to go spouting off unnecessary information now.
But he was going to answer this question. Because he had read. And he was smart. And the person he was handcuffed was NOT. Davie raised his left hand, his free hand, to answer.
"Before we had Standard Time, and before everyone could afford watches and clocks, we used to drop a bright red Time Ball at 13.00 so that ships out on the Thames and commoners of London could see what time it was." And so they could stop referencing bloody old sundials, was the gist Davie had gotten. "Interestingly enough, that ball still rises on top of the Flamsteed House today when it's not too windy. And that House is on top of the Prime Meridian. It was the original observatory." Okay, so he couldn't resist dropping one truth bomb today.
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