Planetocopia

Planetocopia is a group of model worlds supporting intelligent life. Some of these worlds are set in our future, some are alternate Earths, some are purely imaginary experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. They fall into four series: Tilt!, Futures, the Biosphere Variations, and Caprices.

Planetocopia

Windows Live

I love this tool with bird? Exploration of U.S.

Windows Local Live

Here some nice findings:

Las Vegas in detail

Sights of U.S.

Or

choose a car and have a sightseeing tour in Seattle or San Francisco: Street-Side Drive.

A Journey Through Time

This beautiful multimedia presentation is a feast for the eyes and ears!Frans Lanting Images, Philip Glass Music: Take a 'Journey Through Time'.

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MIRAVI

Explore planet Earth in near-real timeHave you ever wanted to track natural events in progress, such as fires, floods and volcanic eruptions, or simply explore the planet through the eyes of a satellite? ESA has created a website, MIRAVI, which gives access to the most recently acquired images from the world’s largest Earth Observation satellite, Envisat.

-- More at ESA
Enjoy MIRAVI - Meris Image Rapid Visualization.

Speech Accent

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

The Speech Accent Archive

Endless entertainment

The British actor Anthony Hopkins [who shot to fame as Hannibal Lecter] was delighted to hear that he had landed a leading role in a film based on the book The Girl From Petrovka by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins travelled to London to buy a copy of the book. He tried several bookshops, but there wasn't one to be had. Waiting at Leicester Square underground for his train home, he noticed a book apparently discarded on a bench. Incredibly, it was The Girl From Petrovka. That in itself would have been coincidence enough but in fact it was merely the beginning of an extraordinary chain of events. Two years later, in the middle of filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author. Feifer mentioned that he did not have a copy of his own book. He had lent the last one - containing his own annotations - to a friend who had lost it somewhere in London. With mounting astonishment, Hopkins handed Feifer the book he had found. 'Is this the one?' he asked, 'with the notes scribbled in the margins?' It was the same book.

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INDIA COIN SET INCLUDES ODD SHAPES

Historic World Coins and Currency

Hundreds of interesting, historic and unusual items. Included are world coins, currency, tokens and medals, from ancient times to the present. It emphasizes "the story behind the coin or note".

Chinese Public Health Posters

I do not draw on public walls and do not litter with fruit peels and paper, ca. 1950.

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine collects, preserves, interprets, and presents materials documenting the history of medicine, biomedical science, health and disease in all time periods and cultures. It provides researchers and the public with access to manuscripts, books, photographs, films and other historical resources. The Division promotes, conducts, and facilitates scholarly research and public education through seminars, lectures, exhibitions, film programs, Web sites, databases, publications, catalogues, and finding guides

Find Famous People Fast!

Who2 is an encyclopedia of famous people. We research and write profiles of real people, fictional characters, and some figures (like Robin Hood) who may be either. We also profile celebrities who aren't people, like Ham the Chimp and Hal 9000.
Who2? Find Famous People Fast!
Now with 2,718 famous people, characters and creatures.

Worldprocessor

Worldprocessor is an ongoing project that started in 1988. By 2005 over 300 different globes were made. An attempt to do justice to the term 'political' and 'geo-political' globe.Trying to tell the lie (of abstraction and visualization) that tells the truth.


Worldprocessor


A corresponding article: Think Globally by Wired Magazine.

Worldometer

World Statistics updated in real time.

Uses your computer's clock, so if you are curious to learn the number of HIV-infected in 2050 then just change your system time to 2050. It will calculate values based on current interesting statistics and demographics data. Do not use for exact calculations.

The Miniature Earth

What if there were only 100 people?Visit The Miniature Earth and be grateful for everything you have in your life and remember: If you keep your food in a refrigerator, your clothes in a closet, if you have a bed to sleep in, and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the entire world population.

Country Profiles

Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives.

Country Profiles by BBC

Languages of the World

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world?s 6,912 known living languages.Due to the nature of language and the various perspectives brought to its study, it is not surprising that a number of issues prove controversial. Of preeminence in this regard is that of the definition of language itself. Since languages do not have self-identifying features, what actually constitutes a language must be operationally defined. That is, the definition of language one chooses depends on the purpose one has in identifying a language. Some base their definition on purely linguistic grounds. Others recognize that social, cultural, or political factors must also be taken into account.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World.