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  2. A Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    A Map of the World (1994) is a novel by Jane Hamilton.It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.

  3. Marauder - Wikipedia

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    Marauder, the second novel in the Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series; One of the four fictional characters in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban who created the Marauder's Map; Marauder (comics), several characters Marauders (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain team; Marauders (comic book), a Marvel Comics comic book launched in 2019

  4. How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world - AOL

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    In fact, says Briant, there’s a simple reason why, 2,000 years on, we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.

  5. A Map of the World (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Map of the World is a 1999 American drama film, based on the 1994 novel by Jane Hamilton. Directed by Scott Elliott and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, the film stars Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore and David Strathairn. Weaver was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance.

  6. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia

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    Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.

  8. Colonization (series) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the world when the Colonization series begins. Colonization is a trilogy of alternate history books by American writer Harry Turtledove. [1] It is a series continuation of the situation set up in the Worldwar tetralogy, projecting the situation between humanity and The Race (the bipedal lizard-like invaders and settlers from Worldwar) nearly twenty years afterward, in the mid-1960s.

  9. ‘Harry Potter’ Prop Sold for Nearly $300K to Benefit Injured ...

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    The Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter films has smashed records to become the most expensive prop ever sold from the movie franchise. The prop, which famously first appeared in Harry Potter ...