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  2. Old Dominion Freight Line - Wikipedia

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    Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. traces its origins to 1934 when husband and wife Earl Congdon Sr. and Lillian Congdon (née Herbert) founded the company with a single straight truck running between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. [7] [8] The name is a reference to a common nickname for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the "Old Dominion." [9]

  3. American logistics in the Normandy campaign - Wikipedia

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    The tidal range in Normandy was about 12 feet (3.7 m); low tide uncovered about one-quarter of a mile (0.4 km) of beach, and water deep enough for coasters, which drew 12 to 18 feet (3.7 to 5.5 m) of water, was another one-half a mile (0.8 km) further out. The solution the COSSAC planners adopted was to build a prefabricated harbor.

  4. Google Maps Navigation - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Navigation. 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 ...

  5. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...

  6. Normandy - Wikipedia

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    Normandy (/ ˈ n ɔːr m ə n d i /; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] ⓘ; Norman: Normaundie, Nouormandie [nɔʁ.mɛnde]; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

  7. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    Open Location Code. The Open Location Code ( OLC) is a geocode based in a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth. [1] It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as " plus codes ".

  8. Normandy Isles Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Normandy Isles Historic District. /  25.854556°N 80.131028°W  / 25.854556; -80.131028. Normandy Isles Historic District is a U.S. Historic District encompassing the Normandy Isles neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida. It is roughly bounded by the Normandy Shores Golf Course, Indian Creek, Biscayne Bay, Rue Versailles, 71st Street, and ...

  9. Comparison of web map services - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Bing Maps MapQuest Mapy.cz OpenStreetMap ... Mercedes-Benz in-car system, Alpine in-car system CarPlay: In Car System, ... Map, satellite, terrain, 3D ...