Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

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Did he do a handstand, solve the four-color map theorem?

他会倒立，解决这个四色地图原理？

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The World Health Organization keeps track of what countries have cases of polio and when they occur, and what the frequency of--So, this is a map from a few years ago and there are efforts that occur occasionally.

世界卫生组织一直跟踪记录,发生小儿麻痹症的国家及发病时间,以及发生的频率,那么,这是从几年前开始统计的,一个地图,这里是一些偶然产生的成就

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That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

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