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The Egyptians used a 3 point system to determine this, which later became a common practice.  It used rope and a triangle shape.

What are property Boundaries?

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This is the year that Civil 3d was first released.

What is 2005?

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These men banded together and formed a "super group," releasing 3 albums together throughout the years.  They were collectively known as Highwaymen.

Who are Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson?

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Following his 4 season stint in the NFL, this comedic and dramatic actor came to a movie set to visit his friend and wound up being in his first movie with Denzel Washington.

Who is Terry Crews?

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One in every 200 people is a descendant of this man.  He also led one of the most ferocious armies in the ancient world.

Who is Genghis Khan?

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One of the 3 men who worked at Johns Hopkins University and helped discover and create GPS after the launch of Sputnik.

Who are William Guier, George Weiffenbach, and Frank McClure?

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This is how you copy an object within Civil 3d to create a Duplicate.

What is Highlight it and Type CO or Copy?

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This country music outlaw is the son of perhaps the most famous country music singer of all time (besides Garth Brooks)

Who is Hank Williams Jr?

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He started his career as a bodybuilder, moved into action movies, and was even a governor.

Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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He was shot in Dallas on December 22, 1963.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

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This is what the first basic GPS system was called.  It used a method called the Doppler Effect to determine position.

What is the TRANSIT system?

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You have made a couple of lines too long and want them to stop where they meet.  This is the command that you use.

What is Trim?

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He was a pioneer of rockabilly, a genre that blended country and rock music in the 1950s and was heavily influential on early rock and roll. His early work for Sun Records combined elements of country, folk, and gospel, and was characterized by a unique sound that helped him transcend rigid genre definitions.

Who is Johnny Cash?

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This famous Comedian began his career as a loveable and eccentric alien, and finished his career as one of the most beloved actors of all time.

Who was Robin Williams?

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It had a small amount of Cocaine in it until the 1920s when they were urged to remove it.

What is Coca Cola?

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This is what mapmakers were called before GIS.

What are Cartographers?

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This is the company that Makes Autocad, Civil 3d, Inventor, and other CAD software.

Who is Autodesk?

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This country music royalty is known for her voice and her Big ideas.

Who is Dolly Parton?

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This actor got started on shows like Moonlighting and decided to become a blues musician later in life before he returned to acting but an illness forced his retirement.

Who is Bruce Willis?

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Billed as the Eighth Wonder of the World, this man was said to have once drunk of 105 cans of beer in one single sitting.  People like his costars in The Princess Bride remember him fondly.

Who was Andre the Giant?

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They were some of the world's first documented Surveyors.

Who are the Egyptians?

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This is what you have to do to create a new project in Civil 3d.

What is select New from the menu on the left?

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He is the best-selling music artist of all time.  He has sold over 157 million records in the U.S. alone.

Who is Garth Brooks?

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This man started his career in the 1990s, forming his band at the University of South Carolina, and later went solo as a country music artist.

Who is Darius Rucker?

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Before becoming President of the U.S. this man was an actor for many years.

Who is Ronald Reagan