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Australasians will also find it interesting that their settler histories under European colonialism are covered by the period Felkl made terrestrial globes. The third section of the monograph presents five up-to-date spreadsheet databases of preserved collections of Felkl's globes held in the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Germany--listing all the authors/translators of the globes, globe dimensions, the years of publication and the different languages, collection locations, and inventory numbers.

I drew the way wars can change the landmarks of the terrestrial globe and hurt human beings along with the pollution and the catastrophes of the nature," she told The Daily Star.

The device manifested the possibility to register gravitational perturbations of non-seismic kind from the internal processed in the terrestrial globe, and locate the terrestrial coordinates of the sources of the perturbations.

IT was only after I had sold a celestial and terrestrial globe last Tuesday for pounds 4,000 in one of our regular antigue sales that I thought we had not mentioned any items of this nature.

THOUGH the Greeks and Romans were known to have made them, the first true terrestrial globe was made by Martin Benheim in Nuremburg in 1492.

Accompanying it is the largest terrestrial globe by the world's greatest globe maker, Willem Blaeu, above (500,000 [pounds sterling]).

An unidentified French collection of the 1740s--sixty-six maps and text in parallel of 'the vicissitudes that the terrestrial globe has experienced' since the dawn of time--and the respectable 'Paris draft' of 1761 led on to 'the 'Dupre Atlas' ('Dupre' is a pseudonym) two years later.

First-prize winners, chosen by a panel of five international environment experts, each receive a cheque for Euro 10,000 and the "Globe Energy Awards" trophy, a 14 kilo bronze statuette of a hand holding a terrestrial globe in the shape of a light bulb.

In Allegory of Faith, a tapestry curtain (with decorations standing for the outside, secular world) is pulled back to reveal a richly attired woman whose right foot is on a terrestrial globe and who is gazing heavenward at a hanging glass ball above her head.

Preference went to the project presented by engineer Silva Costa, with a major change suggested by Archbishop Leme himself: eliminate the long cross and the huge terrestrial globe the designer had placed in the hands of the Christ and use the statute's widespread arms to form the transverse line of the cross.