Columbus was the hub for Italian San Francisco, and the boys' window on the ways of the world.
Yet it is often tiny merchants, such as mom-and-pop businesses, hobbyists and individual traders, who have been among the first to discover how to use the Internet as a cheap and profitable shop window to the rest of the world.
What distinguishes the latest round of scandals in the minds of voters, analysts say, is the window they provide into a world of decadence worthy of a Fellini satire.
The 311 individual panels from the window reveal a Christian history of the world, as told in the Bible, from Creation to the Last Judgement.
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For Microsoft, the decline will most likely be slow, but for the possibility of reattaining its prominence in the world of computing, its window is closing fast.
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Wales has suffered the relentless wrath of the elements just when they wanted to promote their sunny side during their window to the 620 million households around the world eyeing up this area of south Wales.
The year 2009 will indeed, here and across the world, be a chance to recognise this form of communication as an essential liberator, a window on the world for children reading their books (under their bedcovers, as I did), or adults being able to go about their business with confidence - and with the certainty that very few other people will be able to read their secrets.
In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.
Sitting in the window seat in this new configuration is sort of a world unto itself, except for the person next to you.
Wii U Panorama View opens a window to the sights and sounds of some of the world's most exotic destinations.
With the conclusion of the World Series last night, the clock has already started on the five-day exclusive negotiating window that the Yankees have with Derek Jeter.
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Even if I am on the other side of the world from the farmhouse I live in, I still dream of the ancient vines out the window, and the shed out back that my grandfather's father built in 1870 with eucalyptus trunks.
"When we talk about the environment, it's not window dressing, " insists Jeff Clarke, chief executive of Travelport, one of the world's largest travel conglomerates.
Or, is the exciting World Cup that featured an inspired North Korean team of underdogs a window of opportunity not to be missed, a chance to continue dialogue somewhere, someplace?
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What's more, the particulars of a star's relationship give the public a window into that celebrity's life, adds Jill Stempel, the New York bureau chief of photo agency World Entertainment News Network.
The World Cup opens a window onto 32 countries, giving spectators a chance to compare styles of soccer.
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