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Contains the complete contents of the 1906 Jewish Encylopedia. Over 15,000 articles and pictures about the Torah, history, literature, biography, geography, and more.
Uses data from the U.S. census and a supplementary list of worldwide cities to find the latitude and longitude of two places, then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map.
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