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2. Unisphere - Wikipedia

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   The Unisphere is the world's largest globe. It measures 120 feet (37 m) in diameter, rises 140 feet (43 m), and weighs 700,000 pounds (317,515 kg). [ 10 ] [ 31 ] Including its 100-short-ton (91 t) inverted tripod base, which is made of sturdy low-alloy steel, the Unisphere weighs 900,000 pounds (408,233 kg).

3. Bellerby & Co, Globemakers - Wikipedia

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   The "Churchill Globe", at around fifty inches in diameter, is the largest made by the company. [24] Its design is based on a Weber Costello, Chicago-made globe presented to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt by George Marshall, the US Army's Chief of Staff during World War II. [22] [25]

4. Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes ...

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   Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate ...

5. Globe - Wikipedia

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   A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a celestial globe.

6. Oregon Scientific - Wikipedia

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   Oregon Scientific, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronics including digital clocks, home weather stations, public alert monitors, fitness devices, toys and globes. The firm was started in 1989 in Portland, Oregon , United States . [ 1 ]

7. Gore (segment) - Wikipedia

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   The gores of Waldseemüller's 1507 globe of the world, the first to use the name "America" (at right). A gore is a sector of a curved surface [1] or the curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe and may be flattened to a plane surface with little distortion.