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Pratchett describes Ankh-Morpork as the biggest city in Discworld and its corrupt mercantile capital.. Tallinn, one of the real-life inspirations for Ankh-Morpork. In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explained that the city is similar to Tallinn and central Prague, but adds that it has elements of 18th-century London, 19th-century Seattle and modern-day New York City.
The Discworld Mapp is an atlas that contains a large, fold out map of the Discworld fictional world, drawn by Stephen Player to the directions of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. [1] It also contains a short booklet relating the adventures and explorers of the Disc and their discoveries. It was originally conceived as the second in a series ...
The ankh has a T-shape topped by a droplet -shaped loop. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh has a T-shape topped by a droplet -shaped loop. It was used in writing as a triliteral sign, representing a sequence of three ...
0-552-14161-5. Followed by. The Discworld Mapp. The Streets of Ankh-Morpork is a map and brief guide of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in Discworld, a fantasy series by English author Terry Pratchett. [1] The final, artwork-grade map was drawn by Stephen Player, who also drew the artwork for a later publication, The Discworld Mapp.
The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of Ankh-Morpork, a fictional city in the Discworld series by English author Terry Pratchett. A series of eight fantasy novels and one short story explores the growth, development and inner workings of the Watch. The novels generally feature Watch Commander Sam Vimes as protagonist and follow the ...
The patrician talking to Rincewind in Ankh-Morpork's palace. Discworld is a third-person point-and-click graphic adventure game. [2] [3] In each location in the game, players can examine and interact with people and objects, [3] picking up and using items to acquire other objects or solve puzzles to remove obstacles.
The Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) is the northern half of a great collision zone called the East African Orogeny. This collision zone formed near the end of Neoproterozoic time when East and West Gondwana collided to form the supercontinent Gondwana. The East African orogeny extends southward to the Mozambique Belt, and is a subset of the overall ...
Pagan's Motorcycle Club, or simply the Pagans, is an outlaw motorcycle club formed by Lou Dobkin in 1957 in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [1] [6] The club rapidly expanded and by 1959, the Pagans, originally clad in blue denim jackets and riding Triumphs, began to evolve along the lines of the stereotypical one percenter motorcycle club.