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‘A map may show the world.’

[⟨det map.nshow.v ⟨the-local world.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Webmapper explains: “The artist Slavisa Savic discovered an unusual and an unexpected coincidence between the town plan of Serbian Belgrade and the map of the world….
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In Wikipedia:

“’A Map of the World”’ was a soundtrack compilation based on the movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, which in turn was based on the book by Jane Hamilton.
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In Wikipedia:

By contrast, Johannes Ruysch’s 1507 map of the world was much more widely published and many copies were produced and still exist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The device includes free maps of the world, and gives the option to upgrade to a navigation service including turn – by – turn services, for a small charge.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world. 21.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I want to hang a map of the world in my house then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve travelled to.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

visited 35 states (70 %) Create your own visited map of The United States or determine the next president And the world as a whole (Feels like I’ve been more places, but I just keep going back to the same places over and over, I guess): visited 15 states (6.66 %) Create your own visited map of The World or determine the next president
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In Wikipedia:

His map of the world was considered the most accurate in the 16th century.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And the allied forces did not find the need to spend any effort to investigate his death or disappearance for it would only spoil the happiness of victory, and he, whether he was dead or disappeared was actually finished from the political map of the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There will be maps of the world, posters of great leaders, art by the great masters and more.
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In Wikipedia:

The table is remarkably accurate American geography professor Mark Monmonier wrote a computer program to replicate Wright’s calculations, and determined that for a Mercator map of the world wide, the greatest discrepancy between Wright’s table and the program was only on the map.
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In Wikipedia:

“Small Maps of the World”, Parlor, 2006.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If it does indeed prove to be the first map of the world,? the history of New World discovery will have to be rewritten,? claims Mr Menzies.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Earth and computer scientists from 79 nations are working together on a global project called OneGeology to produce the first digital geological map of the world.
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In Wikipedia:

His map of the world was considered the most accurate in the 16th century.
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In the British National Corpus:

There was a cutaway picture showing the inside of the familiar hemispherical dome of the reactor housing, a brief explanation of how it would be built and operated, and a map of the world to emphasize that, internationally, this was “the most widely used” type of nuclear power plant.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Knowledge as either information or disciplinary ways of knowing and understanding provides maps of the world and past human understandings.”
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Queried on 2013-05-24.