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\u201cIn the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there\u2019s something about a globe\u2014a spherical representation of the world in miniature\u2014that somehow endures.\u201d The Associated Press has a fairly light feature on the relevance and popularity of globes today<\/a>; the bespoke globes of Bellerby and Co. (whence<\/a>) are prominently featured, of course (Replogle not so much, oddly), but they\u2019re intermixed with some historical trivia. Not in-depth in the slightest, but something a few newspapers would have found interesting enough to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there\u2019s something about a globe\u2014a spherical representation of the world in miniature\u2014that somehow endures.\u201d The Associated Press has a fairly light… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,121],"tags":[132,26],"class_list":["post-1830084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-industry","tag-bellerby","tag-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5999,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/08\/bellerbys-hand-painted-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830084,"position":0},"title":"Bellerby’s Hand-Painted Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 August 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Bellerby & Co. produces gorgeous hand-made, hand-painted globes. 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