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  2. Rand McNally - Wikipedia

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    Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography.

  3. Schjetman Reef - Wikipedia

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    Schjetman Reef is a supposed phantom island in the North Pacific west of Hawaii, reported discovered by the Norwegian captain Ole Andreas Schjetnan in 1868. He reported its coordinates to be 16°8′N 178°58′W. The island was reported to be 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long (north-to-south) and 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) wide (east-to-west).

  4. John Paul Goode - Wikipedia

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    Two of Goode's former students (Leppard and Espenshade) helped him create Goode's School Atlas (later retitled Goode's World Atlas), first published in 1923 by Rand McNally. Goode claimed that “[E]very square inch in the map represents the same number of square miles of the earth's surface as any other square inch in the map” (Schulten p187).

  5. Wikipedia : WikiProject U.S. Roads/Resources/Map database

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    Contents. Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Resources/Map database. arch. This is a database of users and the maps that they have. If you have a question regarding a road in a specific area and time, and a user has a map from that area and time period, they may be able to help. If you have a map, please add your name below.

  6. Dougherty Island - Wikipedia

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    Dougherty is the name of a phantom island that was believed to be located in the extreme south of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Cape Horn and New Zealand. It is named for Captain Dougherty of the James Stewart, an English whaler, who in 1841 reported discovering it at 59°20′S 120°20′W. He described it as 5–6 miles long with ...

  7. Hammond Map - Wikipedia

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    Hammond's Complete Map of Ohio, 1909. Hammond Map or Hammond World Atlas Corporation is an American map company. It was formerly an operating subsidiary of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group, a major map publisher in the United States, but was sold to Universal Map, an affiliate of Kappa Publishing Group, in 2010.

  8. Atlas - Wikipedia

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    Atlas. Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographical features and political boundaries ...

  9. Blue Highways - Wikipedia

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    He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas). He outfitted his van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.

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