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It's A Whole New World: Oldest Globe To Show Americas Discovered
NBCNews.com ^
| 23 August 2013
| Megan Gannon
Posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:15 PM PDT by zeestephen
Dated to the early 1500s, the globe was likely crafted in Florence, Italy, from the lower halves of two ostrich eggs. It is decorated with monsters, intertwining waves and even a shipwrecked sailor.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
To: zeestephen
To: zeestephen
Asia on the ostrich egg globe, showing the large peninsula jutting southward at the right which is evidence of the influence of Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer who worked in Florence.
To: zeestephen
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posted on
08/23/2013 12:06:09 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: zeestephen
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posted on
08/23/2013 12:07:59 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: zeestephen
One of the inscriptions, in Latin, on the Asia side says, “There be dragons here.”...........
To: zeestephen
To: zeestephen
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posted on
08/23/2013 12:24:47 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: SueRae
But can a 10th grade student find Canada on it?
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posted on
08/23/2013 12:27:26 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
To: beelzepug
Probably can’t find the equator on it.
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posted on
08/23/2013 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: zeestephen
The Piri Reis Map - The Piri Reis Map is the oldest surviving map to show the Americas. It is not European, surprisingly, but Turkish. It bears a date of 919 in the Moslem calendar, corresponding to 1513 in the Western Calendar.
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/piriries.htm
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posted on
08/23/2013 2:05:13 PM PDT
by
preacher
(Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
To: beelzepug
Nobody can find Canada on that globe, because it ain’t on there.
To: Boogieman
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posted on
08/23/2013 2:41:52 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
To: beelzepug
Re: “But can a 10th grade student find Canada on it?”
No.....
But ALL of them know where to find BC weed!
Can't ping to the list, keeps giving me an error.
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08/24/2013 8:11:00 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: zeestephen
Buache map (1737) shows Antarctica without ice.
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08/24/2013 11:24:28 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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