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  2. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google Earth ...

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    Image credits: Furious Thoughts You can also use Google Earth to explore the planet and various cities, locations, and landscapes using coordinates.The program covers most of the globe (97% back ...

  3. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    Aquiline, shaped like an eagle's beak (as in a Roman nose) Bell-shaped curve; Biconic shape, a shape in a way opposite to the hourglass: it is based on two oppositely oriented cones or truncated cones with their bases joined; the cones are not necessarily the same Bowtie shape, in two dimensions; Atmospheric reentry apparatus

  4. Sun cross - Wikipedia

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    The cross-in-a-circle was interpreted as a solar symbol derived from the interpretation of the disc of the Sun as the wheel of the chariot of the Sun god. [2] Wieseler (1881) postulated an (unattested) Gothic rune hvel ("wheel") representing the solar deity by the "wheel" symbol of a cross-in-a-circle, reflected by the Gothic letter hwair (𐍈 ...

  5. Armillary sphere - Wikipedia

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    Jost Bürgi and Antonius Eisenhoit: Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial ...

  6. A new study explains the origin of mysterious 'fairy circles ...

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    Just like you might think rocks that seem to move on their own are driven by a power not of this world. But now both of those mysteries have something in common: totally natural explanations.

  7. Can you spot the circles hidden among these rectangles? - AOL

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    Take a look and see if you're able to find them: If you're having trouble spotting the circles, don't go crazy. Just relax your eyes a little bit while you're staring at the photo and, hopefully ...

  8. Celestial spheres - Wikipedia

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    In Greek antiquity the ideas of celestial spheres and rings first appeared in the cosmology of Anaximander in the early 6th century BC. [7] In his cosmology both the Sun and Moon are circular open vents in tubular rings of fire enclosed in tubes of condensed air; these rings constitute the rims of rotating chariot-like wheels pivoting on the Earth at their centre.

  9. Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium - Wikipedia

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    To discourage Melkor from assailing Aman, they thrust the continent of Middle-earth to the east, thus widening Belegaer at its middle, and raising five major mountain ranges in Middle-earth: the Blue, Red, Grey, and Yellow Mountains, plus the Mountains of the Wind. This act disrupted the symmetrical shapes of the continents and seas. [T 20]