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Globe (disambiguation)

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A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth or other astronomical body.

Globe may also refer to:

Multiple places with the same name

United Kingdom

  • Globe Pit, geological site in Essex, England
  • Globe Theatre, the Elizabethan Playhouse associated with William Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare's Globe, the modern reconstruction of the Elizabethan Playhouse associated with William Shakespeare

United States

Other countries

Worldwide

Philippines

United Kingdom

United States

Other countries

Newspapers

  • Globe (tabloid), a supermarket tabloid newspaper published in New York City
  • Globes, a daily financial newspaper published in Tel Aviv

Music

Vessels

Other uses

  • Celestial globe, show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky
  • BBC One 'Virtual Globe' ident, known as simply 'Globe' or 'Virtual Globe', a television ident for BBC One
  • Globe (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
  • Globe (human eye), the human eyeball apart from its appendages
  • Lightglobe, synonym for "incandescent light bulb" in Australian English vernacular
  • Snow globe, a transparent sphere enclosing a scene or figure
  • Le Globe, the first successful gas balloon, launched - unmanned - on 27 August 1783, in Paris, France, also known as La Charlière (after its inventor Jacques Charles).

See also

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