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2. Here be dragons - Wikipedia

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   The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.

3. Topographical disorientation - Wikipedia

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   Topographical disorientation is the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings, sometimes as a result of focal brain damage. [1] This disability may result from the inability to make use of selective spatial information (e.g., environmental landmarks) or to orient by means of specific cognitive strategies such as the ability to form a mental representation of the environment, also known ...

4. Cardinal direction - Wikipedia

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   The ordinal directions (also called the intercardinal directions) are northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW). The intermediate direction of every set of intercardinal and cardinal direction is called a secondary intercardinal direction.

5. Underfunding Our Libraries Almost Lost Us World War II - AOL

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   The OSS was hungry for resistance literature, German newspapers, maps, travel guides, telephone books, novels, scientific journals, and publications on topics that ranged from aeronautics to ...

6. Classical compass winds - Wikipedia

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   In the Hebrew Bible, there is frequent reference to four cardinal directions. [5] The names of the directions seem to be associated with physical landmarks for the ancient Israelites living in the region of Judea, e.g. East is referred to as kedem, which may derive from "edom" ("red"), and may be a reference to the color of the rising dawn, or the red sandstone cliffs of the Land of Edom to ...

7. New threat facing homeowners whose properties are ... - AOL

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   Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com and Google Maps give criminals the tools to surveil a home more easily than ever before. Experts advised homeowners on how to best protect themselves.