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2. Rand McNally - Wikipedia

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   Rand McNally provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. Founded in 1856, the company is known for its atlases, road maps, globes, and random number books.

3. Andrew McNally - Wikipedia

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   Andrew McNally (1836-1904) was an American publisher and co-founder of Rand McNally, a leading map publisher. He also owned Rancho Los Coyotes, a large tract of land in Southern California, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

4. William H. Rand - Wikipedia

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   William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush.

5. Gousha - Wikipedia

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   Harry Mathias Gousha, a sales executive for Rand McNally, left that company in 1926 to start his own map company out of Chicago, quickly becoming Rand McNally's chief competitor by offering the Touraide: a spiral-bound book with road maps, points of interest, and accommodations that was custom assembled for individual buyers.

6. Thomas Guide - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States. Learn about the origins, development, and changes of the Thomas Guide brand, from its creation in 1915 by George Coupland Thomas and his brothers to its acquisition by Rand McNally in 1999.

7. Kon-Tiki expedition - Wikipedia

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   Learn about the 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who wrote a bestselling book and a documentary film about his adventure. The expedition aimed to prove that South Americans could have reached Polynesia, but the hypothesis is disputed by most scholars.