Very unusual globes

With the help of Google (and not only), you can explore the surface of our planet right on the computer screen. But this surface - flat. It's time to turn their eyes on the globe; huge, soaring, cube, random, flat (!) globes. Working with a sensor and an electromagnet, this seems an unusual globe floating in the air without any visible support (bottom left). Massive globe in Savannah Georgia (bottom right) - in fact, the balloon for natural gas:





These huge globes you can buy (for about $ 40, 000) or rent:



Mapparium in Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston - a three-story glass globe inside-out, so that you can see it from the inside. However, he portrays the world as it was in the 1930s, with the Soviet Union and the European colonies in Africa and Asia:



Globes in architecture in this photo of the 1930s - a huge globe in the building of "The Daily News" in New York:



Not a globe of planet Earth, but a spherical structure symbolizes "One World 1939": it is a huge construction was built for the International Fair in New York. She also served as the location for a huge planetarium:





View from inside is impressive. So the authors imagine the city of the future:



Another impressive scope-sculpture-globe (the project of the German sculptor Fritz Koenig, completed in 1971) in New York, was virtually destroyed by the debris of the WTC in 2001, but survived and was placed near Battery Park. Her plan to again determine in the WTC complex.



This is a similar sculpture of "spheres within spheres" of Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, and "Sphere number six" of his own authorship:





Globe in the interior of this unusual globe with clock refers to 1885. And before that - in 1584 - made mechanical watch Augsburg:



Left - a combination of modern design watches and a globe, right - something called the producer "Globe Ideas Classroom or polar board»:



Decorated Globe bar:



What to do with old globes? Remade in light:



Decorate the bedroom:



Lighted area of ​​the globe Ingo Gunther show tension and crisis territory, a place where there are military clashes. Fascinating stuff. See other globes demonstrate different issues and statistics, such as the spread of television, the number of people, the way of oil, military budgets and even the number of anonymous places.



Here are some of the globes of this collection. Globe Cold War:



Globe terror:



Globe Temperature:



Globe timezones:



Globe Mountain:



Do not round the globe? Why not? Those who believe that in fact the earth is flat, will love this version of the world:



Or maybe you'd prefer a cubic world?



Measure your ego with the help of the globe after the Soviet collapse were created by some of the globes, which represented a new, independent, full of proud of the population, instead of the whole world. For example, in Ukraine the globe.



Not only the country, but even small towns and villages may entertain its visitors with history and sights "across the globe." Below - photo globe town Borovsk in the Kaluga region:



Satisfy curiosity If you want to know about all the world, far and wide, you need a globe with the earth's crust and inner core (bottom left). Version Globe bottom right gives you the opportunity to explore the interior of the planet.



With the help of the puzzle you can do to collect the whole world together, and then expanded it in parts (bottom left). Bottom right - "Globe Cube».



Do you want to enjoy a drink from every corner of the globe? You can do this with a "dispenser of alcoholic beverages»:



And finally, a few yo-yo for those who want not only to possess the whole world, but also controlling them :)



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