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Third World Third World
Third World the technologically less advanced, or developing, nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, generally characterized as poor, having economies distorted by their dependence on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. These nations also... Read more
Mappa Mundi Mappa Mundi
Mappa Mundi a map of the world of a kind produced in the medieval and early Renaissance periods, typically depicting Jerusalem at its centre, and featuring details of cosmology, mythology, and history. A famous example is a 13th-century circular map, preserved in Hereford Cathedral in England. The... Read more
Saint-Die Saint-Die
Saint-Dié , city (1990 pop. 23,670), Vosges dept., E France, in Lorraine , on the Meurthe River. It is an industrial center where foundry products, chemical products, and machinery are manufactured. The printing industry is also important. The city grew around a monastery founded in the 7th... Read more
Mercator map projection Mercator map projection
Mercator projection a projection of a map of the world on to a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, invented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512–94). It was first published in 1569 and used especially... Read more
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vegetation and climatic change Climate is one of the dominant controls on vegetation; this domination is clearly illustrated by comparing maps of global climate with the world's major vegetation communities. Ten major vegetation communities, or biomes, are recognized on the terrestrial surface of... Read more
World-System World-System
World-System WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY The great French historian Fernand Braudel coined the term économie-monde (world-economy). The hyphen is important; it signifies that he did not mean that his “economy” covered the whole world, merely that it was effectively... Read more
Isidor Isaac Rabi Isidor Isaac Rabi
RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC(b. Rymanow, Austria-Hungary [later Poland], 29 July 1898; d. New York, New York, 11 January 1988), physics, molecular beams, nuclear physics, physics statesman.When I. I. Rabi died at age eighty-nine, many of the world’s leading physicists called him the “dean of world physics.”... Read more
John Florio John Florio
John Florio , 1553?-1625, English author, b. London of Italian parentage. Educated at Oxford, Florio served in various capacities at the court of James I. He is chiefly remembered for his free translation (1603) of the essays of Montaigne. He wrote works on Italian grammar and compiled an... Read more

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