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  2. Leviathan - Wikipedia

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    The Leviathan is often an embodiment of chaos, threatening to eat the damned when their lives are over. In the end, it is annihilated. Christian theologians identified Leviathan with the demon of the deadly sin envy. According to Ophite diagrams, the Leviathan encapsulates the space of the material world.

  3. Leviathan (Westerfeld novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel opens at the beginning of an alternative version of World War I: the Austro-Hungarians and Germans use Clankers, diesel-driven mecha loaded with guns and ammunition, while the British Darwinists employ genetically-engineered animals as their weaponry. The titular Leviathan is a whale airship, the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

  4. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center - Wikipedia

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    Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England. The center also holds depository library maps and atlases produced by federal, state, and local agencies, as well as data sets used in geographic information systems.

  5. Leviathan gas field - Wikipedia

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    The Leviathan gas field is a large natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, [2] 47 kilometres (29 mi) south-west of the Tamar gas field. [3] The gas field is roughly 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa in waters 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) deep in the Levantine basin, a rich hydrocarbon area in one of the largest offshore natural gas field finds.

  6. Kujata - Wikipedia

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    These have been claimed to be corruptions of Leviathan (Arabic: لوياتان). Alternate names include Al-Rayann . Kuyootà , Kuyoothán were forms of the name as transcribed by Edward Lane , and given as Kuyata (Spanish), Kujata (first English translation, 1969), and Quyata (revised English translation) in various editions of Jorge Luis ...

  7. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  8. Leviathan in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Leviathan of the Book of Job is a reflection of the older Canaanite Lotan, a primeval monster defeated by the god Baal Hadad.Parallels to the role of Mesopotamian Tiamat defeated by Marduk have long been drawn in comparative mythology, as have been wider comparisons to dragon and world serpent narratives such as Indra slaying Vrtra or Thor slaying Jörmungandr, [1] but Leviathan already ...

  9. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...