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2. Great Globe - Wikipedia

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   The Great Globe at Swanage is one of the largest stone spheres in the world and stands at Durlston Castle within Durlston Country Park, a 113-hectare (280-acre) country park and nature reserve. [1] It is constructed of Portland stone, weighs about 40 tonnes and is 3 metres (10 ft) in diameter. [2] The Great Globe with Durlston Castle in the rear

3. Mapparium - Wikipedia

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   Churchill was originally influenced by the famous spinning globe in the lobby of the New York Daily News Building. The 608 stained glass panels were produced by the Rambusch Company of New York City and the Mapparium was opened to the public on June 1, 1935. The Mapparium was closed in 1998 for a four-year cleaning and renovation.

4. Aztec sun stone - Wikipedia

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   The tips of the compass here extend to the edge of the sculpture. The Stone of Tizoc is currently located in the National Anthropology Museum in the same gallery as the Aztec Sun Stone. The Stone of Motecuhzoma I is a massive object approximately 12 feet in diameter and 3 feet high with the 8 pointed compass iconography.

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. Erdapfel - Wikipedia

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   Behaim-Globe, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, height 133 cm (52 in) Behaim’s Erdapfel Modern recreation of the gores of the Erdapfel Oceanic area described on the Martin Behaim globe. The Erdapfel ( German for 'earth apple'; pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ⓘ ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin ...

7. Peridot - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford English Dictionary suggests an alteration of Anglo–Norman pedoretés (classical Latin pæderot-), a kind of opal, rather than the Arabic word faridat, meaning "gemstone". The Middle English Dictionary ' s entry on peridot includes several variations: peridod, peritot, pelidod and pilidod — other variants substitute y for letter i ...