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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (from left to right, top to bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (also known as the Mausoleum of Mausolus), Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria as depicted by 16th-century Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck.
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography , written c. 150 . Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released, The 2020 map is the provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map with the final map to be released in Fall 2021 upon the completion of the wave. The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released, 04 Feb 2022; 04 feb 2021 EV000190.JPG, The provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map.
A Map of the World (1994) is a novel by Jane Hamilton.It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.
Coal mining employment in the US, 1950-2017. Coal-mining employment increased rapidly in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and peaked in 1923 at 798,000. Since then, the number of miners has fallen considerably since, due to mechanization. By 2019 it had fallen below 55,000. [32]
An urban enterprise zone is an area in which policies to encourage economic growth and development are implemented. [1] Urban enterprise zone policies generally offer tax concessions, infrastructure incentives, and reduced regulations to attract investments and private companies into the zones.
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A Map of the World is a 1999 album by Pat Metheny. It is the soundtrack of the movie A Map of the World released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver. The movie was based on the novel A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton.