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  2. Eagle, Globe, and Anchor - Wikipedia

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    The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor (commonly referred to as an EGA) is the official emblem and insignia of the United States Marine Corps. [1][2] The current emblem traces its roots in the designs and ornaments of the early Continental Marines as well as the United Kingdom 's Royal Marines. [citation needed] The present emblem, adopted in 1955 ...

  3. GIF - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.w3.org /Graphics /GIF /spec-gif89a.txt. The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡɪf / GHIF or / dʒɪf / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987. [1]

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Equal-area. Walter Behrmann. Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 30°N/S and an aspect ratio of (3/4)π ≈ 2.356. 2002. Hobo–Dyer. Cylindrical. Equal-area. Mick Dyer. Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 37.5°N/S and an aspect ratio of 1.977.

  5. World map - Wikipedia

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    World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  6. Unisphere - Wikipedia

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    The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, the Unisphere was conceived and constructed as the theme symbol of the World's Fair. The theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding", and the Unisphere represented the theme of global ...

  7. File:Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 547 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 219 × 240 pixels | 438 × 480 pixels | 701 × 768 pixels | 935 × 1,024 pixels | 1,870 × 2,048 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 935 × 1,024 pixels, file size: 492 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

  8. Virtual globe - Wikipedia

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    A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position. Compared to a conventional globe, virtual globes have the additional capability of representing ...

  9. Pinterest - Wikipedia

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    Pinterest is an American social media service for publishing and discovery of information [6] in the form of pinboards. [7] This includes recipes, home, style, motivation, and inspiration on the Internet using image sharing. [8] Pinterest, Inc. was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, [5] and is headquartered in San ...