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1 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS In The Woods

2 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Poor, Lonely Henry David Thoreau??? 42 o 27’ 03.24”N 42 o 26’ 25.44” N 1.15 miles between minutes Local Pub Cabin

3 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS The Canterbury Tales Approx. 60 miles

4 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS skipwalter.net

5 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/apr/ct_map/

6 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS History

7 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS The Pony Express

8 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS The Pony Express

9 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Lewis and Clark Explorations

10 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492 5,400 miles in 36 days

11 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Columbus 36 o 21’ 33.88”N 7 o 05’ 05.47”W 19 o 30’ 13.89”N 69 o 39’ 30.39”W

12 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Global Wind Patterns Trade Winds - About thirty degrees north & south of equator. Prevailing Westerlies - Between thirty & sixty degrees latitude Easterlies - About sixty degrees latitude

13 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Wind Patterns

14 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS North and South Are Easy It’s Easy and West that’ll sink your ship

15 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS The World Is Round Not Square 6068 ft (1.15 miles) 4800 ft (0.91 mile) At 38 degrees North Latitude 101 ft. 80 ft. latitude longitude 1 degree 364,000 ft (69 miles) 288,200 ft (54.6 miles) 1 minute 1 second

16 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS I Need You To Cosign Cosine Open the calculator in Windows (Start  Programs  Accessories  Calculator) Click on View & Scientific Choose Decimal and Degrees Type in known latitude (must be in decimal degree format) Click the Cosine Key (cos) Multiply answer by 69

17 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS For More Information Longitude by Dava Sobel

18 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Science

19 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Astronomy

20 houseofbuck.com Navigating all subjects with a GPS Ecology - Migrations of Birds


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