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September 19, 20111931 - Brook Benton
1934 - Brian Epstein
1928 - Pete Murray
1933 - David McCallum
1940 - Zandra Rhodes
1940 - Bill Medley
1945 - Kate Adie
1946 - Michael Elphick
1948 - Jeremy Irons
1949 - Twiggy
1963 - David Seaman
The first globe was created by a German mapmaker named Martin Behaim in 1492. He was inspired by the discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who suggested that the Earth and its surrounding planets were round, not flat. He also proposed that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, as many people thought. Behaim called his globe an “Erdapfel,” or “Earth Apple.”
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Why is the Earth round?
As far back as 300 BC Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, noticed that everything in space that he could see was round. He made an educated guess that Earth was also…
How do planets stay up in the sky?
As you know, planets circle the sun and the sun holds them in a gravitational grip. If the planets didn’t have their own momentum, they would fall directly into the…
Why don’t you feel upside down in the southern hemisphere?
In space, there is no such a thing as right-side up or upside-down. The globe shows a top and bottom, but it doesn’t mean that such an orientation really exists…
How may galaxies and stars are there in this Universe?
In the portion of the universe we can observe, there are at least a hundred billion galaxies! But we don’t know how much more universe there is out there, and…
What is a light year and how long is it?
A light year is a way of measuring distance. I know that doesn’t seem to make much sense because “light year” contains the word “year,” which is normally a unit…