"Now here's a site, the sphinx and the pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the world no map, " Ludwig says.
Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.
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In one of its many attempts to make the world more accessible and interconnected, the Internet giant sends cars out with cameras mounted on their hoods in order to photograph and map the world down to the street level.
Because of that, it is once again on the world map in a significantly impartial way.
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She also highlighted the work UNESCO is undertaking to establish a road map to democracy in the Arab world.
The explore page that allows you to browse by users or hashtags is not there, and neither is the fun photo-map feature that lets you see where in the world a user took all their photos.
You and your friends can simultaneously type on it, fingerpaint, play on digital piano keys, call up YouTube videos and Flickr images and zoom in on and rotate a map of the world.
New World Bank President Jim Kim spoke about involving the private sector in building energy infrastructure in the developing world, and announced a World Bank program to help companies map and identify opportunities for energy investments.
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Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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Using that entirely automated system and data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the entire world map was carved in just over two minutes.
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But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
In our hands-on demo, we stared at a world map, and then used the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in on that particular country.
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In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
Iquitos was put on the world map during the rubber boom in the late 1800s.
As I sailed around in the world of Crazy Boat, I found myself keeping my own map, and a series of notes regarding things like the price of goods.
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Japanese policymakers entered this alliance because they recognised earlier than their western counterparts how radically the map of world power was likely to be redrawn in the 21st century.
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At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
Turkey, of course, appears in the lower right-hand corner of such a map -- a sort of marginal nation, seemingly at the fringes of what matters in the world.
You pick a side, pro-energy or anti-energy, and do battle in the real world against the other side by linking energy hot spots to one another, creating protected zones on the map.
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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.
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