Globe Sentence Examples

He's been globe trotting for the last three weeks.

The size of a globe is usually given in terms of its diameter.

Sir John Murray deduced the mean height of the land of the globe as about 2250 ft.

The zoology of Australia and Tasmania presents a very conspicuous point of difference from that of other regions of the globe, in the prevalence of non-placental mammalia.

In 1653 he had made the astonishing proposal to the Dutch that England and Holland should divide the habitable globe outside Europe between them, that all states maintaining the Inquisition should be treated as enemies by both the proposed allies, and that the latter "should send missionaries to all peoples willing to receive them, to inculcate the truth of Jesus Christ and the Holy Gospel."

These accessories are indispensable if it be proposed to solve the problems usually propounded in books on the " use of the globes," but can be dispensed with if the globe is to serve only as a map of the world.

The globe itself rotates within a metallic meridian to which its axis is attached.

Once there were eleven tadpoles in a glass globe set in a window full of plants.

The Mediterranean is all that remains of a great ocean which at an early geological epoch, before the formation of the Atlantic, encircled half the globe along a line of latitude.

The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.

Finally the globe is covered with the paper gores upon which the map is drawn.

As we were passing a large globe a short time after she had written the questions, she stopped before it and asked, "Who made the REAL world?"

I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live.

Arrested Development received numerous award nominations and won six Emmy awards and a Golden Globe award during its run.

The tidal wave of the Southern Ocean, which sweeps uninterruptedly round the globe from east to west, generates a secondary wave between Africa and South America, which travels north at a rate dependent only on the depth of the ocean.

A large number of articles by his hand appeared in Le Producteur, L'Organisateur, Le Globe, and other periodicals.

In all other cases recourse must be had to a map, a globe or mathematical formula.

Another brief biography of great merit is attached to the Globe edition of Cowper's Works.

Millions of children across the globe are enjoying the magical adventures of Harry Potter.

The truth is we are decadent and other countries across the globe have more fizz.

There is also a celestial globe in the background.

He won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award posthumously for this role.

Bono has won many awards with U2, including 22 Grammy awards and a Golden Globe for best original song.

Knight. A few months later at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards, Washington denied ever making the comment and eventually the dust settled -- or so everyone thought.

She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance during the second season finale, as well as an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

She seems to recognize the responsibility of being in the position she is in, as evidenced by her words when she accepted her Golden Globe award.

Since 1997, Damon has been nominated for over 50 official industry awards, 15 of which he won, including his shared Best Screenplay Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work as an actor in Good Will Hunting.

Hopefully, many more celebrities will follow their lead, because there will, unfortunately, never be a shortage of people in need across the globe.

He has been nominated for Golden Globe, Emmy and American Comedy awards; Ferrell won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performer in a TV Special (for Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2000).

Pictures of gorgeous female celebrities without makeup is (admit it ladies) a guilty pleasure for non-celeb ladies around the globe.

These comments were, of course, "overheard" by the press and subsequently published in newspapers and tabloids around the globe.

With her fresh good looks and lovely voice, she has won fans all over the globe.

Lowe earned a Golden Globe nomination for this portrayal.

Busch, of Limburg (1656-1664), manufactured a globe for Duke Frederick of Holstein, formerly at Gottorp, but since 1713 at Tsarskoye Zelo.

In his early manhood, while employed as an engineer, he became a convert to the theories of Saint Simon; these he ardently advocated in the Globe, the organ of the Saint Simonians, which he edited until his arrest in 1832 on a charge of outraging public morality by its publication.

On the other hand, if the effects arose from balanced stresses set up inside the globe by the radiation, the effects on the vanes and on the case would be of the nature of action and reaction, so that the establishment of motion of the vanes in one direction would involve impulsion of the case in the opposite direction; but when the motion became steady there would no longer be any torque either on the vanes or on the case, and the latter would therefore come back to its previous position of equilibrium; finally, when the light was turned off, the decay of the motion of the vanes would involve impulsion of the case in the direction of their motion until the moment of the restoring torque arising from the suspension of the case had absorbed the angular momentum in the system.

The important part played by the residual air in the globe had also been deduced by Osborne Reynolds from observing that on turning off the light, the vanes came to rest very much sooner than the friction of the pivot alone would account for; in fact, the rapid subsidence is an illustration of Maxwell's great theoretical discovery that viscosity in a gas (as also diffusion both of heat and of the gas itself) is sensibly independent of the density.

As originated by Regnault, it consisted in filling a large glass globe with the gas by alternately exhausting with an air-pump and admitting the pure and dry gas.

Two species of the former family inhabit our islands, but the Belostomatidae are found only in the warmer regions of the globe; some of them, attaining a length of 4 to 5 in., are giants among insects.

Bachian is remarkable as the most eastern point on the globe inhabited by any of the Quadrumana, a black ape occurring here as in Celebes.

The accidental use of a single name, America, for the pair of continents that has a greater extension from north to south than any other continuous land area of the globe, has had some recent justification, since the small body of geological opinion has turned in favour of the theory of the tetrahedral deformation of the earth's crust as affording explanation of the grouping of continents and oceans.

However, before the conquest, in no other part of the globe did language tally so nearly with kinship. Marriage was exogamic among clans in a tribe, but practically, though not wholly, endogamic as between tribes, wife and slave capture being common in places.

Garnering several nominations and the winner of an Emmy and several Golden Globe Awards, Seymour has enjoyed a long and successful career in Hollywood.

Earnings also increase dramatically after a big award win, such as an Oscar or Golden Globe.

While that remains an egg she hasn't cracked since 1982, she's won seven Golden Globe Awards, the most of any performer.

While Streep has won the most Golden Globe awards for acting, Barbra Streisand has won the most total Golden Globe awards, winning special awards as well.

Despite its storied history, there have only been four performers to have won two Golden Globe Awards in the same year.

Zadora won the New Star of the Year Golden Globe Award, beating out Elizabeth McGovern for the film Ragtime, and Kathleen Turner for the film Body Heat.

After Zadora's Golden Globe win, it was revealed that her husband, the very wealthy Meshulam Riklis who was thirty years older than Zadora, had appeared to buy the votes from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for his role in The Dark Knight in 2009.

For different shoppers, there are different reasons to buy name brand clothing, but all shoppers can find name brand clothing online and in department stores around the globe.

Believe it or not fabric stores across the globe have various textures of fabric with Elmo on them.

Cheetah Girls clothing became popular after the Disney movie by the same name became a big hit with young girls across the globe.

Dog fighting is outlawed in all fifty United States, and in many other places around the globe, yet it is still growing in popularity.

Today, this popular pet food is sold in markets and pet supply stores across the globe, with formulas designed to meet the nutritional needs of both cats and dogs at all different ages.

Since that time, it has grown to include shelters and rescue groups from around the globe with 1,941 shelters participating last year.

The different assortment of globe styles, the variety of track structures, and the ability to pinpoint surfaces make pendants an attractive feature for almost any décor.

Both websites will help you find a variety of manufacturer and supplier information from across the globe.

The company has been around for more than 100 years, starting in San Francisco and branching out to include 25 locations around the globe.

The New Zealand Subregion, considered by Professors Newton and Huxley and various other zoogeographers as deserving the rank of a region, is, and to all appearance has long been, more isolated than any other portion of the globe.

Reiches (1881); Voyeikov, The Climates of the Globe (Russ., 1884), containing the best general information about the climate of Russia.

For about 10 years Pennsylvania was the one great oil producer of the world, but since 1870 the industry has spread all over the globe.

Generally from to 24 gores and two small segments for the polar regions printed on vellum paper are used for each globe.

The geographical ideas which prevailed at the time Columbus started in search of Cathay may be most readily gathered from two contemporary globes, the one known as the Laon globe because it was picked up in 1860 at a curiosity shop in that town, the other produced at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behaim.1 The Laon globe is of copper gilt, and has a diameter of 170 mm.

The Nuremberg globe is a work of a more ambitious order.

They occur in vertebrate animals throughout the globe, though varying in abundance in different districts and at different times.

Observations made at the most diverse parts of the globe, and the general distribution area of the disease, show that mere questions of elevation, or even configuration of the ground, have little or no influence.

The result has been that in subsequent years mosquitoes have been collected, studied and described by naturalists and medical men in all parts of the globe.

Between that date and the Revolution there had been only two secretaries of state, whose duties were divided by a geographical division of the globe into northern and southern departments.

Hymenoptera are probably less widely distributed than Aptera, Coleoptera or Diptera, but they are to be found in all except the most inhospitable regions of the globe.

These proportions are not readily grasped from a map of the world on Mercator's projection, and must be studied on a globe.

The fore-sight was a small globe, and in the original patterns this was placed on a movable leaf on which deflection for speed of one's own ship was given, while deflection for speed of enemy's ship and wind were given on the tangent sight.

The first investigates mathematical facts relating to the earth as a whole, its figure, dimensions, motions, their measurement, &c. The second part considers the earth as affected by the sun and stars, climates, seasons, the difference of apparent time at different places, variations in the length of the day, &c. The third part treats briefly of the actual divisions of_the surface of the earth, their relative positions, globe and map-construction, longitude, navigation, &c. Varenius, with the materials at his command, dealt with the subject in a truly philosophic spirit; and his work long held its position as the best treatise in existence on scientific and comparative geography.

The keynote of his History is contained in his assertion that the Reformation was "the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe."

There are various herbaceous plants which may be similarly treated, such as sea-kale and horseradish, and, among ornamental plants, the beautiful autumn-blooming Anemone japonica, Bocconia cordata, Dictamnus Fraxinella - the burning bush; the sea hollies (Eryngium), the globe thistle (Echinops ritro), the Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale), the sea lavender (Statice latifolia), Senecio pulcher, &c. The sea-kale and horseradish require to be treated in the open garden, where the cut portions should be planted in lines in wellworked soil; but the roots of the others should be planted in pots and kept in a close frame with a little warmth till the young shoots have started.

She was probably the only thoroughly sound-conditioned, healthy, and robust young lady that ever walked the globe, and wherever she came it was spring.

Hudson is the third African American actress to win a Golden Globe Award for an acting category, joining Whoopi Goldberg and Angela Bassett.

Her most recent work in Dreamgirls, opposite award winning and Oscar nominated up-and-comer Jennifer Hudson has gained the star more recognition and a Golden Globe nomination.

The role earned her a lot of recognition, including a Golden Globe nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn award for Best Young Actress.

In this game, 11 or 12 teams of two people travel around the globe, competing in tasks of intellect and strength to move one leg closer to the big prize.

The show ran for two years and Applegate earned a People's Choice Award and a Golden Globe nomination for her work.

The show, picked up for a second season in 2008, also received a Golden Globe Award for Duchovny's portrayal.

The outbreak of swine flu is certainly a serious matter, affecting people and industries across the globe.

Millions of people across the globe surfed in to see this middle-aged woman, whose appearance can be described as plain, sing so beautifully.

Paquin received a Golden Globe Award for her work on True Blood, in the category of Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama.

As it is a shock to Brittany Murphy fans around the globe, it is an extraordinary shock to those that knew and loved the 32-year-old actor.

Then again, while David Duchovny is spectacular, he isn't necessarily a role model for millions of people, especially children, around the globe.

Lautner is also a skilled martial artist, and has won the hearts of fans across the globe with his good looks and talent.

Actor Clive Owen was born in England, but has made a big impression on moviegoers around the globe.

He didn't win the Oscar, but he did earn a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for his contribution to the film.

Hasselhoff has become one of the most recognizable stars around the globe, with his appearances on popular television programs and a music career that has earned him millions of European fans.

Hamm has won a Golden Globe for this portrayal, and gone on to take the lead role in the movie Stolen in 2010.

Angelina Jolie won much praise for her searing portrayal, as well as a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award.

She has long lobbied for greater attention to impoverished people across the globe, whether it's visiting refugees in Ecuador or pushing for legislation that will aid children in Third World countries.

One of her bigger roles was as cohost of Fuera de Serie, a travel series, traveling the globe from 1995 to 1999.

Sofia Vergara earned an Emmy nomination, a Golden Globe nomination, and Screen Actors Guild nomination for her role as Gloria.

A further difficulty arose in connexion with the variation of the compass, which induced Pedro Reinel Behaim'S Globe 1492 Fig.

He published in 1507 a huge map of the world, in 12 sheets, together with a small globe of a diameter of I 10 mm., the segments for which were printed from wood-blocks.

Leonardo da Vinci's rough map of the world in 8 segments (c. 1513) seems likewise to have been intended for a globe.

These four nations sent out well-equipped expeditions to various quarters of the globe, both in 1874 and 1882, to make the required observations; but when the results were discussed they were found to be extremely unsatisfactory.

The greatest of Gilbert's discoveries was that the globe of the earth was magnetic and a magnet; the evidence by which he supported this view was derived chiefly from ingenious experiments made with a spherical lodestone or lerrella, as he termed it, and from his original observation that an iron bar could be magnetized by the earth's force.

In the first group are found Infinite Time, or Cronus; Tellus and Atlas supporting the globe, representing the union of Earth and Heaven; Oceanus; the Fates; Infinite Time giving into the hand of his successor Ormazd the thunderbolt, the symbol of authority; Ormazd struggling with a giant of evil - the Mithraic gigantomachy.

Having worked first as a mason and then as a compositor, he joined P. Dubois in the foundation of Le Globe which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint-Simonian community, of which he became a prominent member.

A submarine cable from Durban goes to Zanzibar and Aden, whence there is communication with every quarter of the globe.

The " Theatre " and the " Curtain " were situated at Shoreditch; the " Globe," the " Swan," the " Rose " and the " Hope " on the Bankside; and the Blackfriars theatre, although within the walls, was without the city jurisdiction.

This only requires to be annealed and is then ready for cutting up, but the lump of glass by which the original globe was attached to the pipe remains as the bullion in the centre of the disk of glass.

If the whole globe were covered with a uniformly deep ocean, and if there were no difference of density between one part and another, the surface would form a perfect ellipsoid of revolution, that is to say, all the meridians would be exactly equal ellipses and all parallels perfect circles.

The establishment of a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe was accomplished mainly on his representations; and a great part of his life was devoted to their direction, and to the reduction and discussion of the observations.

He suggests that the propagation of earthquake disturbances is probably affected by the curvature of the surface of the globe, which may act like a whispering gallery.

The bear family is widely distributed, being found in every quarter of the globe except Australia, and in all climates, from the highest northern latitudes yet reached by man to the warm regions of India and Malaya.

In his early years he was an active political journalist, and from 1826 to 1830 opposed the reactionary policy of the king in Le Globe.

Its area is greater than the whole land surface of the globe, and the volume of its waters is six times that of all the land above sealevel.

Buchan describes the island-studded portion of the western Pacific as the most extensive region of the globe characterized by an unusually heavy rainfall.

North of this salinity diminishes steadily, especially to the north-west, the Sea of Okhotsk showing the lowest salinity observed in any part of the globe.

In the department of natural theology and the Christian evidences he ably advocated that method of reconciling the Mosaic narrative with the indefinite antiquity of the globe which William Buckland (1784-1856) advanced in his Bridgewater Treatise, and which Dr Chalmers had previously communicated to him.

The task of the palaeontologist thus begins with the appearance of life on the globe, and ends in close relation to the studies of the archaeologist and historian as well as of the zoologist and botanist.

The chief conclusions of astronomers concerning the .spherical figure and dimensions of the earth, its relation to the heavenly bodies, and the great circles of the globe - the equator, the ecliptic and the tropics - were considered as well established.

But, the length of the stem being settled, the lower scale may be made lighter, and, consequently, the globe less, the greater its distance is taken from the surface of the globe; and the contrary."

In 1844 he began, independently of his father, the issue of the Toronto Globe.

Soon afterwards Brown refused the lieutenant-governorship of Ontario, and on two subsequent occasions the offer of knighthood, devoting himself to the Globe and to a model farm at Bow Park near Brantford.

Brown Globe, including Magnum Bonum; White Globe; Yellow Danvers; White Spanish, in its several forms; Trebons, the finest variety for autumn sowing, attaining a large size early, ripening well, and keeping good till after Christmas; Ailsa Craig; Ronsham Park Hero; James's Keeping; Cranston's Excelsior; Blood Red, strong-flavoured.

Thus the pope laid the foundations of that wonderful and silent engine of universal government by which Rome still rules the Catholics of every land on the face of the globe.

He then took a globe of copper fitted with pump and stopcock, and discovered that he could pump out air as well as water.

Granolithic, globe granite and synthetic stone are examples of these.

Taken as a whole, the finches, concerning which no reasonable doubt can exist, are not only little birds with a hard bill, adapted in most cases for shelling and eating the various seeds that form the chief portion of their diet when adult, but they appear to be mainly forms which predominate in and are highly characteristic of the Palaearctic Region; moreover, though some are found elsewhere on the globe, the existence of but very few in the Notogaean hemisphere can as yet be regarded as certain.

Here were discovered in the caves near Walzin the bones of prehistoric men, and other evidence of the primitive occupants of this globe at a period practically beyond computation.

It was a continental formation, such as is now being formed within the desert belt of the globe.

Part I.-Principles Or Science Of Horticulture Horticulture, apart from the mechanical details connected with the maintenance of a garden and its appurtenances, may be considered as the application of the principles of plant physiology to the cultivation of plants from all parts of the globe, and from various altitudes, soils and situations.

In some instances buds form on the roots, and may be used for purposes of propagation, as in the Japan quince, the globe thistle, the sea holly, some sea lavenders, Bocconia, Acanthus, &c. Of the tendency in buds to assume an independent existence gardeners avail themselves in the operations of striking " cuttings," and making " layers " and " pipings," as also in budding and grafting.

Sow spinach for fall use, but not yet for the winter crop. Red top, white globe, and yellow Aberdeen turnips should now be sown; ruta-baga turnips sown last month will need thinning, and in extreme southern states they may yet be sown.

It consisted of a globe of sulphur fixed on an axis and rotated by a winch, and it was electrically excited by the friction of warm hands held against it.

Sir Isaac Newton appears to have been the first to use a glass globe instead of sulphur (Optics, 8th Query).

Hawksbee in 1709 also used a revolving glass globe.

A metal chain resting on the globe served to collect the charge.

The coincidence that so indispensable a thing should also be so abundant, that an iron-needing man should be set on an iron-cored globe, certainly suggests design.

He drifted into journalism, and after working for the Stirling Journal he went to London in 1862 and joined the staff of the Globe.

Tyers, &c.; far above all, of course, the unique Life by James Boswell, first published in 1791, and subsequently encrusted with vast masses of Johnsoniana in the successive editions of Malone, Croker, Napier, Fitzgerald, Mowbray Morris (Globe), Birrell, Ingpen (copiously illustrated) and Dr Birkbeck Hill (the most exhaustive).

The last twelve or fifteen years of his life were spent in Paris, whence he supplied the Globe with a series of piquant letters on the incidents of the day.

The Reliques of Father Prout were collected from Fraser's Magazine and published in two volumes in 1836; The Final Reliques of Father Prout, chiefly extracted from the Daily News and the Globe, were edited by Blanchard Jerrold in 1876, and an edition of his works, edited by Charles Kent, was published in 1881.

In the years1872-1878the Afghan Jamal ud-Din, a professor in the Azhar mosque at Cairo, attempted to read Avicenna with his scholars, and to exercise them in things that went beyond theology, bringing, for example, a globe into the mosque to explain the form of the earth.

In the broadest way variation in organisms is primarily the necessary result of the absence of uniformity in the distribution of physical forces on the globe, in fact is a mere necessary response to the variation of inorganic conditions.

Meanwhile, in 1577, Sir Francis Drake had circumnavigated the globe, and on his way home had touched at Ternate, one of the Moluccas, the king of which island agreed to supply the English nation with all the cloves it produced.

The movements of the atmosphere, however, are upon a scale large enough to make this observation easy, and the simplest evidence is obtained from a study of the direction of the air movements in the great wind systems of the globe.

Having arrogated to himself the practical control of the foreign policy of the nation, Li's yamen became the scene of many important negotiations, and attracted distinguished visitors from all parts of the globe.

But the colonizing genius which, with the British Isles as centre, has taken up the "white man's burden" in all quarters of the globe, is universally recognized.

The lithological characters of the Cambrian rocks possess a remarkable uniformity in all quarters of the globe.

There are about 450 species of acacia widely scattered over the warmer regions of the globe.

He alone, accordingly, has spread over every quarter of the globe.

As the best and original state, he seems to have conceived a period when love was predominant, and all the elements formed one great sphere or globe.

Without challenging or adopting this speculation, it may be safely affirmed that nothing so pregnant of results has happened as this exploration of the globe.

A new series of Jatulian deposits was formed and a new system of foldings followed; but these were the last in this part of the globe.

He asserted that the glass globe, when rubbed, attracted the electrical fire, and took it from the rubber, the same globe being disposed, when the friction ceases, to give out its electricity to any body which has less.

While ethnography was gathering up the facts from every part of the globe, psychology began to analyse the forms of belief, of action and emotion, to discover if possible the key to the multitudinous variety which history revealed.

Admirable descriptions of this inhospitable region, the farthest south of the inhabited parts of the globe, may be found in the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships "Adventure" and " Beagle" between the years 1826 and 1836 (3 vols., 1839).

With this exception these regions are the most arid on the face of the globe, highly heated by a tropical sun during the day and chilled at night by the proximity of snow-covered heights and a cold ocean current.

The Copper Queen at Bisbee from 1880-1902 produced 378,047,210 lb of crude copper, which was practically the total output of the territory till after 1900, when other valuable mines were opened; the Globe, Morenci and Jerome districts are secondary to Bisbee.

The combined nitrogen of dead organisms, broken down to ammonia by putrefactive bacteria, the ammonia of urea and the results of the fixation of free nitrogen, together with traces of nitrogen salts due to meteoric activity, are thus seen to undergo various vicissitudes in the soil, rivers and surface of the globe generally.

It is scarcely too much to say that, in the general opinion of his contemporaries, the whole glory of these years was due to his single genius; his alone was the mind that planned, and his the spirit that animated the brilliant achievements of the British arms in all the four quarters of the globe.

He settled in London in 1846 as an official of the Agra Bank, but resigned in 1851 on his appointment as secretary of the Globe Insurance Company.

Many of the larger species of Crustacea are used as food by man, the most valuable being the lobster, which is caught in large quantities on both sides of the North Altantic. Perhaps the most important of all Crustacea, however, with respect to the part which they play in the economy of nature, are the minute pelagic Copepoda, of which incalculable myriads form an important constituent of the " plankton " in all the seas of the globe.

The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature; and their connexion is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce man upon the surface of our globe.

Anthropological researches undertaken all over the globe have shown the necessity of abandoning the old theory that a similarity of customs and superstitions, of arts and crafts, justifies the assumption of a remote relationship, if not an identity of origin, between races.

Many grasses are almost cosmopolitan, such as the common reed, Phragmites communis; and many range throughout the warm regions of the globe, e.g.

Aphrodite Urania was represented in Greek art on a swan, a tortoise or a globe; Aphrodite Pandemos as riding on a goat, symbolical of wantonness.

The continuous spectrum leads to no inference, except that of the temperature of the central globe; but the multitude of dark lines by which it is crossed reveal the elements composing pe ct rum o the truly gaseous cloaks which enclose it.

The absence of lines of the spectrum of any element from the solar spectrum is no proof that the element is absent from the sun; apart from the possibility that the high temperature and other circumstances may show it transformed into some unknown mode, which is perhaps the explanation of the absence of nitrogen, chlorine and other non-metals; if the element is of high atomic weight we should expect it to be found only in the lowest strata of the sun's atmosphere, where its temperature was nearly equal to that of the central globe, and so any absorption line which it showed would be weak.

When the main equatorial current reaches the African coast a minor stream is sent northwards to the source of the Indian counter-current, but the discharge is chiefly by the Mozambique current, which south of Cape Corrientes becomes the Agulhas current, one of the most powerful stream currents of the globe.

In every direction English influence penetrated, and Englishmen before 1603 might be found in every quarter of the globe, following Drakes lead into the Pacific, painfully breaking the ice in search of a north-east or a north-west passage, hunting for slaves in the wilds of Africa, journeying in caravans across the steppes of Russia into central Asia, bargaining with the Turks on the shores of the Golden Horn, or with the Greeks in the Levant, laying the foundations of the East India Company, or of the colonies of Virginia and Newfoundland.

In every portion of the globe the sixtieth anniversary of the queens reign excited interest; in every country the queens name was mentioned with affection and respect; while the people of the United States vied with the subjects of the British empire in praise of the queens character and in expressions of regard for her person.

This instrument is used to find the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, &c., and other common problems of the sphere or globe, and also to take the altitude of an object in degrees.

The sun too remained stationary, while the planets, including our own globe, circulated round him.

Halley in 1716; they were later insisted upon by Lalande; an enthusiasm for co-operation was evoked, and the globe, from Siberia to Otaheite, was studded with observing parties.

To him the human race is indebted, in large measure, for the maritime exploration, within one century (1420-1522), of more than half the globe, and especially of the great waterways from Europe to Asia both by east and by west.

Consequently, the face which the moon presents to the earth is subject to a corresponding variation, the globe as we see it slightly oscillating in a period nearly that of revolution.

This shows that the side of the moon presented to us is held in position as it were by the earth, from which it also follows that the lunar globe is more or less elliptical, the longer axis being directed toward the earth.

In 1830, having become an ardent follower of Andrew Jackson, he was made editor of the Washington Globe, the recognized organ of the Jackson party.

They can call up ghosts, or can go to the ghosts, in Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, North America, Zululand, among the Eskimo, and generally in every quarter of the globe.

During the Tertiary era the geographical configuration of the globe was steadily approaching that of the present day; but in the earlier part of the time there still existed the great equatorial ocean "Tethys," and there is evidence that East India and Africa, Australia and Asia, north Europe and North America were probably severally united by land connexions.

We must begin by briefly considering this southern Palaeozoic province if we would trace the Mesozoic floras to their origin, and obtain a connected view of the vegetation of the globe as it existed in late Palaeozoic times and at the beginning of the succeeding era.

These must either have been ejected by submarine volcanoes or drifted by the wind from active vents, as the fine ash discharged by Krakatoa was wafted over the whole globe.

He was educated at Harpeth academy, and in 1825 entered the navy as midshipman, circumnavigating the globe in the "Vincennes," during a cruise of four years (1826-1830).

His comments echo an increasingly common refrain ringing out across the globe.

But in the field of music education, Kodály is a towering figure, hugely admired all over the globe.

The Globe company needs to experiment with casting actors who are androgynous enough to be sexually alluring to heterosexual men.

The watering was caused by poor apposition of the lid to the globe caused by shortening of the lid secondary to excess skin removal.

You would be better off growing their cousin the globe artichoke for eating.

Aurora borealis on the globe lies a few degrees south of here, nearer to the Arctic Circle.

Offer the longer-term goal of eliminating the threat posed by ballistic missiles to all the people of the globe.

This seismic axis plotted on the globe nearly bisects the unknown area of the Polar Ocean.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

That competition in both its free market and state capitalist form have combined to produce the economic disaster we see across the globe today.

In competing in these events he will become the first person with a disability to single-handedly circumnavigate the Globe non-stop.

The modern galleon has also circumnavigated the globe, and is a floating museum open to the public.

It continues to export narcotics and other contraband across the globe.

Patients come from across the globe to have tumors treated by the UK ' s only medical cyclotron.

Another popular SF theme was that of the world dictator, the iron man, who rules the globe or the galaxy.

Resource definitions like " fisheries " or " aquatic ecology " could encompass the entire globe.

The British empire expanded to cover almost a quarter of the globe while British industry and finance were world leaders.

This 12 inch (30cm) globe is supplied filled with new fib... .

The Met Office produces long-range forecasts for all regions of the globe using a number of different methods.

Follow Iggy round the globe as he suffers stage fright in front of David Bowie, and single-handedly takes on Pepsi Cola.

In addition, his left hand points to the globe and is the only hand which wears a gauntlet.

Meanwhile, their rivals the Spanish headed west, hoping to reach India by circumnavigating the globe.

A bald head with an elongated whisper of hair encircling that wondrous globe which is the swimmer's bonce.

Instead of confining himself to London he now scours the globe for the incidental.

Have you caught up with the new craze that is sweeping the globe?

No matter how far flung its peoples may be, subtle lines of interconnection span the globe, creating unity between them.

There is not a place on the habitable globe where these men can find refuge and in which they will not be tracked down.

On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe.

It brings back lots of fine memories, such as the BBC1 globe, and the famous BBC Two '2 ' .

Wide area networks can be made up of interconnected smaller networks spread throughout a building, a state or the entire globe.

He sat beside her and together they watched the golden globe chase away the pre-dawn cool.

Childrens globes £ 29.99 US$58.48 E46.48 Top quality 9 inch/23 cm globe.

Gioconda Scott reveals how to cook globe artichokes, and it's easier than you might think.

Sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, celery, salads and globe artichokes can all be sown in a frost-free greenhouse.

The removal of the post is also raising hackles across the globe.

For western hegemony of the globe had been on for the best part of the last three centuries.

A notable ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic was formed of two serpents in connection with a globe or egg, representing the world.

The rich blues of the globe thistle and sea holly against the bold yellow of the yarrow is a sight to behold.

You've now spread unwarranted mass hysteria across the globe.

Our displays provide the perfect icebreaker, bringing your guests face to face with marine life from the furthest reaches of the globe.

But sadly, it would become the final incarnation of the globe - and the shortest-lived BBC1 ident since color began.

To my mind, the Middle Temple Twelfth Night lacked the refreshing irreverence of some recent productions at the Globe's main house.

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He has led jagged Globe expeditions to Aconcagua and Everest and is a key Guide on our Alpine Courses.

Traditional Balkan gypsy songs are remixed by club producers from around the globe to make kaleidoscopes of sound.

Around the globe operators are now kick-starting their network transformation into all-IP networks.

In our opinion, Young's most recent masterwork is undoubtedly " The Shipping News " which won him a Golden Globe nomination.

The increased pressure in the globe can cause central artery occlusion.

Purton says ow now presents a more seamless face around the globe.

A flutter there needed to in pacific palisades over the globe.

Take, for example, the reports from widely scattered regions of the globe, of the seemingly paranormal aspects of some UFO reports.

We remain on course too to eradicate polio from the face of the globe by 2005.

With regard to the number of large quadrupeds, there certainly exists no quarter of the globe which will bear comparison with Southern Africa.

Such political maneuvering did, of course, expand British trade to the farthest reaches of the globe.

European empires, enslaving or exterminating new worlds elsewhere on our globe, had been equally remorseless.

They are coming from every corner of the globe to perform the sacred rites of Hajj.

Of part Cherokee descent, she has studied with many native shamans around the globe.

During both world wars, tons of the black stuff was shipped to British soldiers around the globe.

The increase in rates in the US sparked speculation in markets across the rest of the globe.

One such event was a two hour telethon shown around the Globe which included many celebrities from various walks of life.

These can be measured using a ' wet bulb globe thermometer ' .

The white Lychnis, the globe thistles Echinops and bronze fennel that has yellow flowers continue also to provide interest and color.

But before you apply for a visa and become seasoned globe trotters, make sure you stop by London first.

During the workshop the students will visit their local woodland and carry out a Biometry Study using the scientifically valid GLOBE Protocols.

Shortly on, in 1918, an especially virulent strain of influenza swept the globe leaving further millions dead in its wake.

The symbol of the campaign, adopted around the globe, is a white wristband.

The species of Nymphaea are found in every quarter of the globe.

The novel was received with instant acclamation, and Sainte-Beuve only confirmed the judgment of the public when he pronounced in the Globe that this new author (then to him unknown) had struck a new and original vein and was destined to go far.

Some of the most profound changes that have taken place on this globe occurred in Mesozoic times, and a great portion of Australia was already dry land when vast tracts of Europe and Asia were submerged; in this sense, therefore, Australia has been rightly referred to as one of the oldest existing land surfaces.

It has been described as at once the largest island and the smallest continent on the globe.

South of this anticyclone, from about the latitude of the Cape, we find the region where, on account of the uninterrupted sea surface right round the globe, the planetary circulation is developed to the greatest extent known; the pressure gradient is steep, and the region is swept continuously by strong westerly winds - the " roaring forties."

Three years later, being thrown upon his own resources, he began a course of lectures in his own house, and formed literary connexions with Le Courrier francais, Le Globe, L'Encyclopedie moderne, and La Revue europeenne.

The fact that it has become necessary to introduce regulations for its control by national legislation and international conferences shows the supremely important position which it has taken in the short interval of one decade as a means of communicating human intelligence from place to place over the surface of the globe.

We must content ourselves by referring to the progress of physical (including chemical) theory, which has led to the great generalization of the conservation of energy; to the discovery of the fundamental chemical identity of the matter of our planet and of other celestial bodies, and of the chemical relations of organic and inorganic bodies; to the advance of astronomical speculation respecting the origin of the solar system, &c.; to the growth of the science of geology which has necessitated the conception of vast and unimaginable periods of time in the past history of our globe, and to the rapid march of the biological sciences which has made us familiar with the simplest types and elements of organism; finally, to the development of the science of anthropology (including comparative psychology, philology, &c.), and to the vast extension and improvement of all branches of historical study.

The vast authority of Cuvier was employed in support of the traditionally respectable hypotheses of special creation and of catastrophism; and the wild speculations of the Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe were held to be models of sound scientific thinking, while the really much more sober and philosophical hypotheses of the Hydrogeologie were scouted.

If the surface of the globe had been symmetrically divided into sea and land, and these had been distributed in bands bounded by parallels of latitude, the character of vegetation would depend on temperature alone; and as regards its aggregate mass, we should find it attaining its maximum at the equator and sinking to its minimum at the poles.

The simplicity of the zonal distribution of solar energy on the earth's surface, which would characterize a uniform globe, is entirely destroyed by the dissimilar action of land and water with regard to radiant heat, and by the influence of crust-forms on the direction of the resulting circulation.

Pythagoras had speculated as to the existence of antipodes, but it was not until the first approximately accurate measurements of the globe and estimates of the length and breadth of the Problem oekumene were made by Eratosthenes (c. 250 B.C.) that of the the fact that, as then known, it occupied less than a quarter Antipodes.

An elaborate criticism of all the existing data regarding the volume relations of the vertical relief of the globe was made in 1894 by Professor Hermann Wagner, whose recalculations of volumes 4 " On the Height of the Land and the Depth of the Ocean," Scot.

The sum of the organic life on the globe is termed by some geographers the biosphere, and it has.

The armillary sphere survives as useful for teaching, and may be described as a skeleton celestial globe, the series of rings representing the great circles of the heavens, and revolving on an axis within a horizon.

In this period of destitution the cotton-growing resources of every part of the globe were tested to the utmost; and in the exhibition of 1862 the representatives of every country from which supplies might be expected met to concert measures for obtaining all that was wanted without the aid of America.

Nevertheless, it should be observed that our globes take no account of the oblateness of our sphere; but as the difference in length between the circumference of the equator and the perimeter of a meridian ellipse only amounts to o 16%, it could be shown only on a globe of unusual size.

To find its scale divide the mean diameter of the earth (1,273,500 m.) by the diameter of the globe; to find its circumference multiply the diameter by Map Printing.

Archimedes, the famous mathematician, had a celestial globe of glass, in the centre of which was a small terrestrial globe.

The celestial globe of Hipparchus still existed in the Alexandrian library in the time of Ptolemy, who himself refers to globes in his Almagest, as also in the Geography.

The Arabians are not known to have produced a terrestrial globe, but several of their celestial globes are to be found in our collections.

Weigel (1696) produced a hollow celestial globe in copper, having a small terrestrial globe in its centre.

Modern asterisms first appear in the Phaenomena of Eudoxus about 370 B.C. But Eudoxus, there is reason to believe, consulted, not the heavens, but a celestial globe of an anterior epoch, on which the stars and the signs were forced into unnatural agreement.

Jouffroy in the establishment of the Globe; and he was also a member of the committee of the society which took for its motto Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

Similarly, though not with equal precision, the last wave of influenza was shown to have started from central Asia in the spring of 1889, to have travelled through Europe from east to west, to have been carried thence across the sea to America and the Antipodes, until it eventually invaded every inhabited part of the globe (see Influenza).

The Atchison Globe (established 1878) is one of the best-known of western papers.

Horses are now diffused by the agency of man throughout almost the whole of the inhabited parts of the globe, and the great modifications they have undergone in consequence of domestication, crossing, and selective breeding are well exemplified by comparing such extreme forms as the Shetland pony, dwarfed by uncongenial climate, the thoroughbred racer, and the London dray-horse.

By the end of disease, we accomplish all that the preceding paragraphs describe—the full spectrum of human ailments, vanquished from the globe.

This is made possible by technology and the Internet, which is used to connect buyers and sellers worldwide and bring information (world commodity prices) to the far reaches of the globe.

Around the world, more than a billion mobile devices that both take and send photographs are currently in use, spread even to the poorest parts of the globe.

The world is developing a shared popular culture with elements drawn from around the globe.

Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works are read and studied around the globe.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

He made a lot of friends on the course and stays in touch with them even tho they are now scattered across the globe.

Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy is scouring the globe for the players who he hopes can rescue their disastrous season to date.

The Globe Arena is a sport and culture arena with seating for 16,000 spectators.

Plastic support for a moon globe with the inner section only under crossed-polars and Sellotape dispenser with tape removed.

Even today, according to the UN, 200 million people work in servile conditions throughout the globe.

Britain once ruled over a vast and powerful Empire, spanning the globe.

The dragon of Nature straddles the globe of the Earth.

Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is now being largely supplanted by hypertext.

These can be measured using a ' wet bulb globe thermometer '.

Elliptical trainers have long been a staple of fitness facilities around the globe.

Cooking the books From Ireland to India, Caroline Boucher traverses the globe in search of the best new year cookbooks.

Whatever your health concerns, get answers here Globe Q. Do I need typhoid vaccinations for South Africa?

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Male voice choirs travel to all corners of the globe on St David 's day, to entertain Welsh Communities abroad.

However, signs of its waning popularity have started to appear across the globe.

A financial crisis in Southeast Asia spreading like wildfire around the globe to Russia and then South America.

Our only complaint - the sparkles inside the globe always stuck to the bottom and would not move.

Here you can get tickets to see your favorite bands play live, your favorite sports teams battle their bitter rivals and attend your favorite events around the globe.

Our readers come from all over the globe to contribute shopping tips and buying information to help you find the best product for the best price.

Our users come from all over the globe to contribute shopping tips and buying information to help you find the best product for the best price.

Birds have fascinated people from around the globe for hundreds of years.

Not many people are aware of this, but Apple doesn't sell their iPods in every country on the globe.

From its first cat shows in Buffalo and Detroit, the organization has grown to license over 400 shows across the globe.

Kids have the benefit of finding books from many countries around the globe.

Baileys Gift Basket - This gift basket from Wine Globe is sure to impress the lucky recipient.

There are a number of fraudulent individuals located all throughout the globe who make their living by stealing computer information.

This allows cardholders to travel to a wide variety of locations around the globe, knowing their prepaid cards will be accepted by most merchants.

This type of fraud can occur in any nation around the globe since most airport kiosks are similar in design.

Perpetrators of these crimes, which can bring its victims to financial and personal ruin, do not discriminate by nationality; bank fraud and identity theft occur all over the globe.

Water pollution is a major issue all around the globe.

Deforestation, particularly clear cutting forests by the lumber industry, accounts for nearly 25 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted every year around the globe.

The sun's heat and light is seen, felt and used by people all over the globe.

The Earth Day 2007 took first place as the largest reaching Earth Day with an estimated one billion people participating around the globe.

From kids' rooms featuring their favorite cartoon characters to bohemian chic bedrooms for globe trotting grown-ups, personality reigns supreme when designing this room.

Each January interior designers, furniture dealers, magazine editors, and trend setters from around the globe descend upon the French capital to discover what is next in the world of home design.

Lancome Cosmetics is now found in 163 countries around the entire globe.

Still an American Icon, their makeup is sold in over 175 countries across the globe.

Bath Bombs - An updated take on the bath cube, these globe or heart-shaped "bombs" are made of essential oils, bursting with fizzing fragrance.