Norah likes England, history, museums, reading, water, castles, and libraries so it seemed like a natural.
King Henry VIII commissioned the astronomical clock for his palace at Hampton Court, which was installed around 1540. Still functioning, it was quite practical: showing the time, month, day of the month, position of the sun in the zodiac, the phase and age of the moon.
It also determined the time at which the moon would cross the meridian and therefore the time of high water at London Bridge, which was useful if you, like King Henry, traveled to London by Royal Barge.
We, however, traveled in my floating library.
A floating library? That sounds awesome! Hi Norah, I like libraries, reading, history and museums too. You can find my guardian on AGPT.
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Thanks! You can read more about my floating library by following this link: http://steampunkaddie.blogspot.com/search/label/library
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