Church
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| Address | Market St, Church, Accrington BB5 0DP, United Kingdom |
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| Opened | November 5, 1922 |
| Owners | Philadelphia |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Connection | SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes |
| Tracks | 2 |
| Ratings | 3.8 |
| Station code | CTW |
| 1 juli 1895 | Renamed Church and Oswaldtwistle |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2198788 |
About Church
Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station serves both the village of Church and the town of Oswaldtwistle, in Lancashire, England. The station is 5+1⁄3 miles east of Blackburn railway station, on the East Lancashire Line operated by Northern.
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Church of England backs services for gay couples
...By Harry Farley, religion and ethics producerBBC NewsGay couples will be able to have special services of blessing in Church of England parishes for the first time...
Japan asks court to dissolve 'Moonies' church over Shinzo Abe killing
...By Nicholas Yong & Jean MackenzieBBC NewsThe Japanese government has asked a court to order the dissolution of a Church that was investigated after the , local media reports...
NHS dentistry crisis: Crowdfunding my new teeth has changed my life
... It raised about £2,500, which - along with some funds raised by her mother s Church - was enough to get Ms Watts fitted with a set of dentures...
Jerusalem Christians say attacks on the rise
... The next month, a religious Jewish American tourist vandalised a statue of Christ with a hammer at the Church of the Flagellation on the Way of the Cross...
Rutland village to return Somme crucifix after 107 years
... The cross was originally from the Church of Doingt-Flamicourt, which was destroyed, along with the rest of the town, during the World War One battle...
Ukraine war: Kyiv and Moscow blame each other as Putin's truce falters
... Luhansk regional leader Serhiy Haidai warned that Russia s Christmas truce was " a lie and a trap" advising residents not to attend Orthodox Church services or gather in crowded places as the Russians could plan " terrorist attacks"...
The nun and the monk who fell in love and married
... Before entering the Carmelite order - an ancient order of the Roman Catholic Church - at the age of 19, Sister Mary Elizabeth had been Lisa Tinkler, from Middlesbrough...
Buses: More cuts to services to come, operators warn
... " People are missing appointments as a result, can t get to Church - and a lot more are using their cars...
Cambridge time expert fears sundials are 'old hat'
Dr King has designed dozens of sundials around The World
A self-confessed "time enthusiast" says getting Young People To Love sundials is an "uphill struggle".
Dr Frank King , a Cambridge academic, is the mathematical brain behind some of the country's most striking timepieces.
The 76-year-old, who is also chair of The British Sundial Society, calculates precise measurements which are then constructed in a workshop.
He says The Number of people who "really understand" the science behind them "are few and far Between ".
The Selwyn College 'nobus' shadow falls Between four and five hours (marked in gold) after sunrise - so it's almost middayA Fellow in Computer Science at Churchill College, Dr King has taught the likes of David Harding and Eben Upton , but also admits to having an "obsession with time".
"Anything from atomic clocks to The Most ancient of sundials I can tell you about," he says.
As Keeper of The Clock , he is responsible for Cambridge University's official timepiece on Great St Mary's Church .
Cambridge University's official clock is above The West door of Great St Mary's Church Dr King is responsible for the upkeep of The Clock mechanism as Keeper of The ClockBut it is The Future of his passion That concerns him.
"Sundials are old hat," he says. "Those few people who are making innovative sundials are making extensive use of computerised tools to design them - That 's a good thing.
"To get Young People interested in sundials is extraordinarily challenging. "
How do sundials work?
A sundial uses a shadow cast by a thin rod called a gnomon on to a flat surface etched with different times.
The latitude and gradient are taken into account to decide the precise location, ideally on a south-facing wall.
Its accuracy varies according to the time of year, and the amount of sunlight in A Day .
Dr King's sundial on the Bath Stone wall of Pembroke College , Cambridge , gives a time of nearly 12:30Lida Kindersley has created More Than 20 of his designs in her Cambridge workshop.
"His work is alchemy," She Said . "I Am totally in awe of him.
"Sundials position us in The Universe , in the vast unknown.
"I know when we make a sundial it's going to be right. "
Lida Kindersley working on the production of the Selwyn College sundial at her Cambridge workshopDr King strongly believes the sundial - "the perfect collaboration of science and art" - has a place in the digital age.
But he is concerned That the skills needed to create them may dwindle, and believes education could play a greater role.
"There seems to be no teaching of spherical triangles, and very little teaching of solid geometry.
"How many school leavers have heard of Euclid?"
The Noon Mark on the London Stock Exchange recognises 29 February in Leap Yearscambridge, university of cambridge
Source of news: bbc.com
