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Rand McNally provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. Founded in 1856, the company is known for its atlases, road maps, globes, and random number books.
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.
The Rand McNally Building was an early skyscraper at 160–174 Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, built in 1889 and demolished in 1911. Designed by Burnham and Root , it was the world's first all- steel framed skyscraper .
Agloe was a made-up hamlet in the Catskill Mountains that became a copyright trap for mapmakers. It is also a setting in novels and films, such as Paper Towns and The Cartographers.
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The Andrew McNally House in Altadena, California was the home of Andrew McNally (1838–1904), co-founder and president of the Rand McNally publishing company. The Queen Anne Style house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It remains a private house. A postcard from around 1900 showing the house and gardens.
NASA’s record-holding astronaut is urging his two stuck-in-space colleagues to stay positive and “keep up the good work.” Frank Rubio knows firsthand about unexpectedly long spaceflights.
McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on Ross Island, which is claimed by New Zealand as part of the Ross Dependency. It is the largest and oldest US base in Antarctica, and serves as a hub for scientific and logistical activities in the continent.