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Antique Maps, Old maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Atlases, Old Atlases
We are specialist dealers offering the finest and rarest antique maps of all regions of the world. Part of our collection of thousands of antique maps is available on-line. The antique maps and sea charts featured here are guaranteed authentic antiques that were printed hundreds of years ago, most of them as early as the 16th and 17th century. Each antique maps is provided with a certificate of authenticity. We do not offer modern reproductions or copies of old maps. We focus on rare and decorative maps and charts, with emphasis on the early material from the era of exploration and the time of the voyages of discovery.
Wiki Summarizer
WikiSummarizer is a Web-based application specializing in automatic summarization of Wikipedia articles. Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The result is a summary that presents the most important points of the original text. A summary is a shorter version of the original information. It highlights the major points from the much longer article. The purpose is to help the reader to quickly get the essential points in a short period of time.Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID | Magazine
The courtyard , just off a busy street in a Delhi slum called Mongolpuri, is buzzing with people—men in plastic sandals arguing with one another, women in saris holding babies on their hips, skinny young guys chattering on cheap cell phones. New arrivals take up positions at the end of a long queue leading to the gated entry of a low cement building. Every so often, a worker opens the gate briefly and people elbow their way inside onto a dimly lit stairway, four or five on each step. Slowly they work their way upward to a second-story landing, where they are stopped again by a steel grille. After a long wait, a lean woman in a sequined red sari, three children in tow, has finally made it to the head of the line.
BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number?
Sources: All population data are based on estimates by the UN Population Division and all calculations provided by the UN Population Fund . The remaining data are from other sections of the UN, the Global Footprint Network and the International Telecommunications Union .
Stories from the natural world are not limited to undisturbed, wide open spaces. Even in the densest cities in the world it's presence can still be felt. From it's inspirational, breathtaking beauty, to it's relentless, altering, destructiveness; take a moment to explore our complex and evolving relationship with nature.
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The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle”¦they see everything. Unfortunately, they can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after the other. But there are some places where a spider cannot enter.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
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Artist Ron Miller takes us on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await explorers of our solar system. The scale of these natural wonders dwarfs anything Earth has to offer. What might we see and feel if we could travel to these distant domains? By interpreting data from probes such as NASA's Cassini, which is now exploring the Saturnian system, and MESSENGER, which goes into orbit around Mercury in March 2011, the artist's eye allows us an early visit to these unforgettable locales.
