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Subject:        Re: WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF MAP
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:10:56 -0500
From:   Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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GeoProjects, the Lebanese map publisher, is renowned for not putting
"Israel" on his maps.  He either labels the territory as "Palestine"
(Middle East, Arabia, Muslim World maps), or does not label it at all
(Jordan map), or on his Egypt map he puts it as part of Syria.

Russell

At 11:33 AM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF MAP
>Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:31:22 -0600
>From:   Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization:   American Geographical Society Library
>To:     Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
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>Correction, the globe was in the $1 section at Target - not $5. It's a
>globe with a stand and a decorative box for a buck.
>
>Nice.
>
>Angie
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        WHERE ISRAEL DID GET WIPED OFF MAP
>Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:56:51 -0600
>From:   Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization:   American Geographical Society Library
>To:     Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>Being the collectors of kitsch that we are, a staff person here at the
>AGSL actually has a copy of this globe. Israel is in fact on the map. If
>you look closely at the image included in the article - there is a
>number 2 circled where Israel should be.
>
>What this article demonstrates - is that people don't know how to read a
>map or globe. There is an index with about 16 places labeled  - and
>indexed at number two is a place by the name of Israel.
>
>That's actually pretty nice for a $5 globe.
>
>Angie
>AGSL
>
>opinions expressed are my own

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