It helped people to find their place in the world and their true orientation.

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True to his Omaha roots and value orientation, he's also recommending Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKB - news - people ).

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Panorama View 3D provides true 3D elevation views obtained from NASA's height and terrain data enable intuitive orientation and show users what lies ahead.

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Writing in the journal Nature, Kate Spence shows that the orientation errors of earlier and later pyramids faithfully track the slow drift of Kochab and Mizar with respect to true north.

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