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  2. Messier 83 - Wikipedia

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    Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, ESO 444- G 081, IRAS 13341-2936, NGC 5236, UGCA 366, MCG-05-32-050, PGC 48082 [6] Messier 83 or M83 , also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236 , is a barred spiral galaxy [ 7 ] approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus .

  3. Pinwheel calculator - Wikipedia

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    A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by using a side lever which could expose anywhere from 0 to 9 teeth, and therefore when coupled to a ...

  4. List of street view services - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 countries worldwide. Bee Maps, powered by Hivemapper is the fastest growing mapping company in the world, mapping 29% of the world (until November 2024).

  5. Google Maps pin - Wikipedia

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    The Google Maps pin showing a location in the Google Maps app Google Maps logo as of 2020 The pin in Google headquarters, next to a Google Maps Street View vehicle. The Google Maps pin is the inverted-drop-shaped icon that marks locations in Google Maps. The pin is protected under a U.S. design patent as "teardrop-shaped marker icon including a ...

  6. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City. By the ...

  7. Pinwheel (toy) - Wikipedia

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    A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind . It is a predecessor to the more complex whirligigs .

  8. Google Maps Navigation - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Navigation is a mobile application developed by Google for the Android and iOS operating systems that later integrated into the Google Maps mobile app. The application uses an Internet connection to a GPS navigation system to provide turn-by-turn voice-guided instructions on how to arrive at a given destination. [1]

  9. Pinwheel - Wikipedia

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    Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy; Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits; Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess; Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon; Pinwheel, a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984