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  2. Flight length - Wikipedia

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    The apparent curve of the route is a result of distortion when plotted onto a conventional map projection and makes the route appear to be longer than it really is. Stretching a string between North America and Japan on a globe will demonstrate why this really is the shortest route despite appearances.

  3. Transatlantic crossing - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken in sailing ships, and the journeys were time-consuming and often perilous.The first trade route across the Atlantic was inaugurated by Spain a few decades after the European Discovery of the Americas, with the establishment of the West Indies fleets in 1566, a convoy system that regularly linked its territories in the Americas ...

  4. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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    The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]

  5. Interstate 84 (Pennsylvania–Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    I-84 crossing from Wayne County into Pike County. I-84 starts in Pennsylvania at I-81 in Dunmore, a suburb east of Scranton.After two miles (3.2 km), I-84 interchanges with I-380, with I-380 going southeast through the Pocono Mountains and I-84 continuing almost due east into Wayne and Pike counties.

  6. Cannonball Run challenge - Wikipedia

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    Red Ball Garage in New York on East 31st Street The Portofino Hotel (bottom right) in Redondo Beach, California. A Cannonball Run is an unsanctioned speed record for driving across the United States, typically accepted to run from New York City's Red Ball Garage to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach near Los Angeles, covering a distance of about 2,906 miles (4,677 km). [1]

  7. U.S. Route 66 - Wikipedia

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    On Tulsa's Southwest Boulevard, between W. 23rd and W. 24th Streets there is a granite marker dedicated to Route 66 as the Will Rogers Highway which features an image of namesake Will Rogers together with information on the route from Michael Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road; [58] and, at Howard Park just past W. 25th Street, three ...

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