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A world map at night: Laurent Ferrier’s Classic Traveller Globe Night Blue - MSN
T he Laurent Ferrier Classic Traveller Globe Night Blue dial will take your breath away, thanks to the atlas map that’s ...
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What the world wants to do for a living: Fascinating map shows how being a pilot is the globe's number one dream job, while 'YouTuber' and attorney also prove popular
What the world wants to do for a living: Fascinating map shows how being a pilot is the globe's number one dream job, while 'YouTuber' and attorney also prove popular ...
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Japanese AuthaGraph ‘origami’ map hailed the most accurate ever made ‘unfolds’ the globe so countries appear the right size
THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...
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Oldest Globe of New World Carved on Ostrich Eggs?
A recently discovered globe from the early 1500s, carved onto ostrich eggs, may be the oldest globe of the New World ever identified, experts say. Latin inscriptions dot its surface, and two small ...
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US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion
US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. ... The simplest way to explain how a Mercator map is created is to imagine a glass globe with a light inside.
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It's a whole New World: Oldest globe to show Americas discovered
The New World on the ostrich egg globe, which bears three names: Washington Map Society. Aug. 23, 2013, 12:13 PM EDT. By Megan Gannon.