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In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
Atlas Obscura is a travel website founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary film-maker Dylan Thuras. [1] It catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations with user-generated content. [ 2 ] HouseOfChange ( talk ) 09:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC) [ reply ]
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A mock-up of a TPS report cover sheet, created for the movie Office Space. A TPS report ("test procedure specification") is a document used by a quality assurance group or individual, particularly in software engineering, that describes the testing procedures and the testing process.
A determining fact source for drawing star charts is naturally a star table. This is apparent when comparing the imaginative "star maps" of Poeticon Astronomicon – illustrations beside a narrative text from the antiquity – to the star maps of Johann Bayer , based on precise star-position measurements from the Rudolphine Tables by Tycho Brahe .