Geography is cool. knowing geography is cooler. A human globe is a person who knows geography well enough to rival a world almanac. you will learn what countries border uzbekistan and the capital of Austria. Some people might say it would take savant status to memorize all of it but it is just not true.
oh yea, first instructable.
oh yea, first instructable.
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the reason why i emphesized the word AND is because you need them all three in order to learn. Globes were around before 100bc. Any political globe will do with all the countries, rivers, oceans, time zones and anything else. an bonus is if it is one of the textured globes where the bumps represent the mountains.
the reason why globes are so important these days is because these days, alot of people actually believe that greenland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland) is a large island the size of africa. Most of us were raised on the Mercurator projection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection) no matter what way you do it, you cant get a round globe onto a flat paper without having it grossly disorted.
Maps are still useful in thier own ways. you can not see the exact geography of NYC without an atlas or the internet to help you. While maps and globes tell you what the physical geography is, almanacs tell you everything else. they can tell you about the turbulent history of Cuba or the formation of the European Union. Knowledge is power but knowing powerless knowledge (like all the imports and exports of imperial russia) wont help.
the reason why globes are so important these days is because these days, alot of people actually believe that greenland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland) is a large island the size of africa. Most of us were raised on the Mercurator projection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection) no matter what way you do it, you cant get a round globe onto a flat paper without having it grossly disorted.
Maps are still useful in thier own ways. you can not see the exact geography of NYC without an atlas or the internet to help you. While maps and globes tell you what the physical geography is, almanacs tell you everything else. they can tell you about the turbulent history of Cuba or the formation of the European Union. Knowledge is power but knowing powerless knowledge (like all the imports and exports of imperial russia) wont help.
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At my last job, the best thing about working there was the Wallpaper Game. The receptionist would pick a new wallpaper everyday and challenge me to guess where it was from.
I took courses in ancient Greece and Roman cultures as electives in college to balance all of the biology & geology so I was forever saying things like: "hmm... that looks like Constantinople" She'd say - "Wrong! It is Istanbul". :-)
p.s. I graduated BS in Geography! I can't get enough of it!