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a planet shrunk to desk size so you can spin your problems away
means A round object representing the Earth or another celestial body, or simply the world itself as a whole.
from From the Latin 'globus,' meaning a round mass, ball, or sphere — the same root that gives us 'globule' and 'glomerate.' It rolled into English through French in the 1500s, first meaning any sphere, then narrowing to the spinnable Earth-model we now keep on shelves and in classrooms.
- oldest survivor
- The Erdapfel from 1492 lacks the Americas entirely
- tilted on purpose
- Most lean 23.5 degrees to mirror Earth's axis
- theater fame
- Shakespeare's Globe burned down from a cannon prop in 1613
- snow globe origin
- Invented accidentally while tinkering with surgical lamps
for instance
globe theatre — shakespeare's playhouse in london, built 1599, reconstructed 1997
the globe newspaper — boston-based daily founded 1872, pulitzer prize winner
boston globe — major u.s. newspaper, won 2003 pulitzer for clergy abuse investigation