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2. Willem Blaeu - Wikipedia

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   Prints of the family's works are still sold today. Original maps are rare collector items. Blaeu's 1630 map of Europe Blaeu's 1614 map of the Americas. Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), who holds a position of great honor among map historians. Several of his paintings ...

3. 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 ...

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   The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is only $129.99 today, or $30 off. It allows you to read all your favorite digital titles with a soft, well-lit screen that looks nearly identical to paperback books ...

5. States with the Highest and Lowest Property Tax Rates - AOL

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   The average property tax rate is 0.56%, one of the lowest rates in the country. The average homeowner will pay around $1,707 - more than $1,000 less than the national average.

6. Erdapfel - Wikipedia

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   The globe shows an enlarged Eurasian continent and an empty ocean between Europe and Asia. The mythical Saint Brendan's Island is included. Cipangu ( Japanese archipelago ) is oversized and well south of its true position; Martellus 's map is followed in developing an enormous phantom peninsula east of the Golden Chersonese ( Malay Peninsula ).

7. Celestial globe - Wikipedia

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   A 17th-century celestial globe was made by Diya' ad-din Muhammad in Lahore, 1668 (now in Pakistan). [18] It is now housed at the National Museum of Scotland. It is encircled by a meridian ring and a horizon ring. [19] The latitude angle of 32° indicates that the globe was made in the Lahore workshop. [20]

8. Mapparium - Wikipedia

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   The Mapparium was designed to allow the countries of the world to be viewed in accurate geographical relationship to each other, hence the design of the Mapparium—a mirror-image, concave reversal of the Earth, viewed from within. This is the only configuration that places the eye at the same distance from every point on the globe.

9. Gadani Ship Breaking Yard - Wikipedia

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   Gadani ship-breaking yard is the world's third largest ship breaking yard located across a 10 km (6.2 mi) long beachfront at Gadani, Pakistan. The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots. [ 1 ] It is located about 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Karachi , the largest city of Pakistan .