an interesting take on why Washington, DC is located on the precise longitude it is.

The Perfect Calendar & Elizabethan England's Secret Plan To Weaponize It

Scott Manley

The calendar we use today is flawed, it loses a day every 3300 years. About 20 years ago I was told a story by Duncan Steel about a secret plan In Elizabethan England to deploy a new, better calendar to weaken the Pope and the Catholic Church. The work originated with Simon Cassidy, a calendar researcher who threaded together calendar design, the work of John Dee and England's attempts to Colonize the Americas in the lat 16th century.

https://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cassidy/index.html