Scott Wolter
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45 degrees latitude.
And keep in mind when the earth rotates, it bulges at the equator and it depresses at the poles.
The difference in between the diameter of the earth at the poles and the equator is 26 miles.
And at 45 degrees is the only place where it's the actual correct diameter of the earth.
You follow me?
That's not tough.
At exactly 45 degrees latitude,
There is exactly, on the summer solstice, 8 hours and 22 minutes of darkness.
On the winter solstice, there is exactly 8 hours and 22 minutes of daylight.
You can't make it up.
Can't make that up.
Fact.
That is why the Templars would try to stay as close to the 45-degree parallel as much as possible so they could have the most accurate astronomical measurements because that's the accurate distance diameter of the Earth.
In the Newport Tower...
W1, window one is the east window.
W2 is the south.
W3 is the west window.
W4 is the doobie window.
And then there's another window in the north, which is W5.