It’s in my building’s dumpster now, but once this meant the world to someone.
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About the globe, at the end: was that from a “humorist” about how the world is being trashed, or was that a contribution from one of our own?
I found the globe in my dumpster.
You know, that first one would work just as well if you changed it to the “Romance” section…
Globes are fun, but unhappily they don’t update. There are probably a few dozen countries that either no longer exist, or that didn’t exist when the globe was made.
It looks to be between 1991 (post USSR) & 2011(pre South Sudan).
There’s an attraction in Boston, at the Christian Science Center, called the “Mapparium.” It is a stained glass world globe about 30 feet in diameter but you go inside it and walk along a bridge so that the globe surrounds you. Everything is reversed so that it looks normal from the inside, with New York to the left of Massachusetts as you expect.
It was constructed in 1935 and has not been updated since, so it is quite obsolete as to countries.
…and out in the Boston Suburbs at Babson College is a giant globe. When built mid 29th century it was the largest of its kind. Its graphics were porcelain. Of course as cool as they were, they became obsolete over time. I have a brochure from the 1980s that thoughtfully included an updated diagram of Africa for context. Then the globe fell into disrepair. The enamel panels disappeared. Various attempts were made to spruce it up over the years. Finally during the pandemic it was completely rebuilt and installed in a new courtyard. Its old revolving mechanism was made functional again. A crew of artists hand-painted the graphics. It looks lovely now. Note that there used to be a massive plaster relief map of the US, also made in the 1940s or so, but that disappeared sometime in the late 1980s or so.
So it is first-hand proof of time travel?
To add to the reply above my wall of text, the Mapparium has rather peculiar acoustic properties due to its domed construction.
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About the globe, at the end: was that from a “humorist” about how the world is being trashed, or was that a contribution from one of our own?
I found the globe in my dumpster.
You know, that first one would work just as well if you changed it to the “Romance” section…
Globes are fun, but unhappily they don’t update. There are probably a few dozen countries that either no longer exist, or that didn’t exist when the globe was made.
It looks to be between 1991 (post USSR) & 2011(pre South Sudan).
There’s an attraction in Boston, at the Christian Science Center, called the “Mapparium.” It is a stained glass world globe about 30 feet in diameter but you go inside it and walk along a bridge so that the globe surrounds you. Everything is reversed so that it looks normal from the inside, with New York to the left of Massachusetts as you expect.
It was constructed in 1935 and has not been updated since, so it is quite obsolete as to countries.
…and out in the Boston Suburbs at Babson College is a giant globe. When built mid 29th century it was the largest of its kind. Its graphics were porcelain. Of course as cool as they were, they became obsolete over time. I have a brochure from the 1980s that thoughtfully included an updated diagram of Africa for context. Then the globe fell into disrepair. The enamel panels disappeared. Various attempts were made to spruce it up over the years. Finally during the pandemic it was completely rebuilt and installed in a new courtyard. Its old revolving mechanism was made functional again. A crew of artists hand-painted the graphics. It looks lovely now. Note that there used to be a massive plaster relief map of the US, also made in the 1940s or so, but that disappeared sometime in the late 1980s or so.
So it is first-hand proof of time travel?
To add to the reply above my wall of text, the Mapparium has rather peculiar acoustic properties due to its domed construction.