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  • 111Ley line — Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book The Old Straight Track… …

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  • 112National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — Know the Earth, Show the Way. NGA seal …

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  • 113Naked eye — For other uses, see Naked eye (disambiguation). Bare eye redirects here. For the bird genus, see Bare eye. The naked eye The naked eye is a figure of speech referring to human visual perception unaided by a magnifying or light collecting optical… …

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  • 114Scientific opinion on climate change — This article is about scientific opinion on climate change. For public perception and controversy about the scientific consensus, see Public opinion on climate change and Global warming controversy. For opinions of individual dissenting… …

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  • 115GRS 80 — GRS 80, or Geodetic Reference System 1980, is a geodetic reference system consisting of a global reference ellipsoid and a gravity field model.GeodesyGeodesy, also called geodetics, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and …

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  • 116Robert H. Dicke — Robert Henry Dicke Born May 6, 1916(1916 05 06) St. Louis, Missouri Died March 4, 1997(1997 03 04) (aged 80 …

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  • 117Gravity anomaly — A gravity anomaly is the difference between the observed gravity and a value predicted from a model. Geodesy and geophysicsIn geodesy and geophysics, the usual model is the surface of a global spheroid (ellipsoid of Hayford or WGS84) by rather… …

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  • 118Erik Tengström — (1913 ndash;1996), Swedish astronomer and geodesist.Tengström was born in Motala, Sweden, and was a descendant of the first archbishop of Åbo Jacob Tengström. He enrolled in Stockholm University in 1932, where he studied astronomy, physics and… …

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  • 119Queen Maud Land — Dronning Maud Land …

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  • 120Canadian Geophysical Union — The Canadian Geophysical Union/Union géophysique canadienne (or CGU) began as a society dedicated to the scientific study of the solid earth and has evolved into one that is concerned with all aspects of the physical study of Earth and its space… …

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