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Travel the world with a globe.

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    An artist paints a globe at a Bellerby studio in London, England. (AP/Kin Cheung)
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    Peter Bellerby could not find a globe for his father that he thought was pretty enough or correct. So he made one! He founded a globe-making company in 2008. (AP/Kin Cheung)
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    A team of dozens of artists and cartographers has made thousands of globes at Bellerby. (AP/Kin Cheung)
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    This map of Asia on a globe was hand painted. (AP/Kin Cheung)
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    Handmade globes can cost thousands of dollars. Do you have a globe? (AP/Kin Cheung)
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Where is your house on a map?  Can you find your state on a globe?  Mr. B. has a company.  His workers make globes.

Where is Iceland?  How long is the Nile?  Look on a globe!

Pray: Thank God for the many places He made on Earth.

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Spin a globe. Drop your finger somewhere on its curved surface. You will probably land on blue. Most of Earth is water! The oldest known globe is from 1492. Countries have changed a lot since then. Peter Bellerby is a globemaker in London, England. His company sells around 600 globes each year. More than 20 artists, woodworkers, and mapmakers called cartographers work for him. Would you like to paint globes? The biggest ones cost thousands of dollars.

“He set the Earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.” (Psalm 104:5)

For more about maps and globes, see The Boy Who Loved Maps by Kari Allen in our Recommended Reading.