Without the level, we couldn't engage in precision construction, build things like high-rises or accurately map our world.
Wikipedia has a map of world antipodes that you can look at.
He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.
Japanese policymakers entered this alliance because they recognised earlier than their western counterparts how radically the map of world power was likely to be redrawn in the 21st century.
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Then they would map the world by transnational issues, as one would with trans-state or trans-regional issues at home: ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural, religious, business, labor, women, family, generational, environmental, and so forth.
In one of its many attempts to make the world more accessible and interconnected, the Internet giant sends cars out with cameras mounted on their hoods in order to photograph and map the world down to the street level.
Iquitos was put on the world map during the rubber boom in the late 1800s.
Because of that, it is once again on the world map in a significantly impartial way.
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Locations relevant to the memories are plotted on an interactive map of the world.
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Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
But the map of the world car industry looks as if it has already been drawn up.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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"If Europe does not advance it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map, " Mr Hollande said.
The singleplayer needs the most work of all the modes, for the existing world map looks like a crappy alpha.
The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world.
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Using that entirely automated system and data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the entire world map was carved in just over two minutes.
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As late as 1582, one map of the world went further, depicting the sites of Judgment, Purgatory and the outer and inner circles of Hell.
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And when you want to tackle the city's culinary breadth, "Toronto as a world map" breaks down the dining and dancing scene of four international neighbourhoods.
In our hands-on demo, we stared at a world map, and then used the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in on that particular country.
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In 2008, Cameroon was among the first African countries to contribute to the OneGeology initiative, which aims to make a single trans-national geological world map accessible online.
Until three years ago, Star City, the cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, was that place -- a secret military facility that was unmarked on the world map.
Women film-makers have already performed the considerable feat of putting Iranian cinema on the world map while trying to portray women's relationship with Iran and its Islamic revolution.
The site contains a colourful world map that changes according the criteria chosen, and users can even compare one country to another based on what is most important to them.
Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
On a map of the world using the Brookings index of weak states, the epicentre is self-evidently sub-Saharan Africa, particularly around Congo, with blobs of red in Iraq, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
You and your friends can simultaneously type on it, fingerpaint, play on digital piano keys, call up YouTube videos and Flickr images and zoom in on and rotate a map of the world.
In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
Crowd-sourced cartography is getting hot, too: in late May the company Telenav, which supplies maps to carmakers, said it would switch to OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable world map, from its previous suppliers, which had included Nokia and TomTom.
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