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: After decades of construction, the monument was finally finished in D.C., becoming the tallest structure in the world at the time.

It was also a year of deep political shifts. In Berlin, European powers met to partition the African continent among themselves, a move that would reshape global geography for a century. Meanwhile, in London, the was founded, planting the seeds for socialist political thought in Britain. : After decades of construction, the monument was

: Representatives from 25 nations met in Washington for the International Meridian Conference, officially establishing Greenwich, England, as the Prime Meridian and the standard for time-reckoning across the globe. Shadows of the Era : After decades of construction