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  2. Rain and snow mixed - Wikipedia

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    Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow.Unlike ice pellets, which are hard, and freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object where it fully freezes, this precipitation is soft and translucent, but it contains some traces of ice crystals from partially fused snowflakes, also called ...

  3. Sleet - Wikipedia

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    Sleet is a regionally variant term for some meteorological phenomena: Ice pellets , pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States) Rain and snow mixed , snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)

  4. Ice pellets - Wikipedia

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    Ice pellets (Canadian English [1]) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frosty white opaque rime , and from a mixture of rain and snow , which is a slushy liquid or semisolid.

  5. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...

  6. Normandy - Wikipedia

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    Normandy (French: Normandie; Norman: Normaundie or Nouormandie) [note 2] is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands ).

  7. Bayeux - Wikipedia

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    Bayeux (UK: / b aɪ ˈ j ɜː, b eɪ-/, US: / ˈ b eɪ j uː, ˈ b aɪ-/ B(A)Y-yoo; French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

  8. Hiker follows Google Maps to steep cliffside and gets ...

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    A hiker followed Google Maps and ended up stranded on a steep and dangerous cliffside in Canada, rescuers say.. He had tried to climb Mount Fromme, one of the North Shore Mountains north of ...

  9. Google Street View in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada's laws regarding privacy differ from those of the United States. Images of the streets in Canada were taken early on by Immersive Media Company, the contractor used by Google at the time that took most of the early images. But it would be a long time before Street View would be seen in Canada, and Street View in several other countries ...