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  2. Mapparium - Wikipedia

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    The Mapparium is a three-story-tall globe made of stained glass that is viewed from a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) bridge through its interior. As of August 2021, it is part of the "How Do You See the World?" exhibit of the Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

  3. 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.

  4. Knick Knack - Wikipedia

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    Knick tries several unsuccessful methods to break out of the globe, which includes ramming the glass with the snow globe's igloo backdrop, using his carrot nose and a hammer on the glass, using a jackhammer (which causes his facial features to fall off), trying to cut the glass using a blowtorch and an igniter, and detonating TNT explosives ...

  5. Shakespeare's Globe - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays. Like the original, it is located on the south bank of the River Thames , in Southwark , London.

  6. Robinson projection - Wikipedia

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    It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image. [1] The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general-purpose world maps since that time. Robinson ...

  7. Globe Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark , close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company , the Lord Chamberlain's Men .

  8. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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    Stripping out unit conversion and uniform scaling, the formulae may be written: = = ⁡ where is the longitude from the central meridian (in radians), is the latitude, and R is the radius of the globe used as the model of the earth for projection.

  9. World map - Wikipedia

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    Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.