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Google Latitude was a location-aware feature of Google Maps, developed by Google as a successor to its earlier SMS-based service Dodgeball. Latitude allowed a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location. Via their own Google Account, the user's cell phone location was mapped on Google Maps. The user could control ...
The Utah monolith was a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States.The pillar was 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism.
Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.An additional road (Township Road 123A) and an oil well have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure, [2] [3] which were installed in the early 2000s [4] and are expected to disappear once the oil well is abandoned.
At this latitude, the sun is visible for 15 hours 37 minutes during the summer solstice, and 8 hours 46 minutes during the winter solstice. The midday Sun stands 21.6° above the southern horizon at the December solstice , 68.4° at the June solstice , and exactly 45.0° at either equinox .
The 33rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 33 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It is approximate at the midpoint between the equator (0 degrees) and the Arctic Circle (66.6 degrees North Latitude.) It crosses North Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California.
Randonautica (a portmanteau of "random" + "nautica") is an app launched on February 22, 2020 founded by Auburn Salcedo and Joshua Lengfelder (/ l æ n ɡ f æ l d ɛ r /).It randomly generates coordinates that enable the user to explore their local area and report on their findings.
The island is unique among its floating counterparts as its shape is almost perfectly circular. [2] [3] As the island is constantly rotating on its own axis due to the flow of the river beneath it, shearing occurs around its outer edge, eroding the island into its circular shape, similar to ice disks.