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Tobler was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1930 to parents Verner Tobler and Hanny Urech Tobler. [22][23] His father was a Swiss consular employee, and this granted Waldo Tobler both Swiss and United States citizenship. [1][22][24][25] His father's career resulted in moves to Seattle when Waldo Tobler was young, and later to Washington, D.C., when ...
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.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. "Political Parties and the Bureaucracy" – In Robert A. Goldwin, ed. Political Parties U.S.A. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. Replies to Wolin and Schaar – American Political Science Review 57 (March 1963). "The Problem of Big Government" – In Robert A. Goldwin, ed. A Nation of States: Essays on the American ...
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.
A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in ...
Agloe was originally a fictional hamlet in Colchester, Delaware County, New York, United States, that became an actual landmark after mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement, an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street, added to the map to catch plagiarism. Agloe is also known for its role in the American romantic ...
Geographia was founded in 1911 by Alexander Gross (1879 – March 23, 1958), a native of Austria-Hungary who had established Geographia, Ltd, a commercial map publisher located at No. 55 Fleet Street in London. [1][2][3][4] War maps were in great demand during World War I, so Gross set out to publish as many of these as he could.
August 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM. Shan Hanes in Morton County Jail, Kansas. The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million ...