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Kathleen and Maps-L:
Have seen the illustration you speak of but do not have a
citation. However, thanks to J. Post, there is posted on the wall of
the Map Room a photocopy of a poster/kit to make a square earth 'globe'
with a boat on the edge. You cut out the paper pieces and glue them
together to form a square globe with a boat set in one of the top
edges. Hagar is in the boat and saying: "The World Is Flat And That Is
That!" It was a promotion for "Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly
Complete Viking Handbook." (Workman Publishing, 1985). Wish I had two
copies of the color original, one to file and one to mount. As it is,
the black & white photo copy is a nice display.
John Sutherland
University of Georgia
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:05:06 -0500 Kathleen Weessies
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> A patron and I both have vague memories, from perhaps school textbooks, of a
> picture of the flat earth with a sailing ship falling over the edge. She
> would like to find such a picture- part of a presentation about how far
> we've come. I've turned several 'history of cartography' type books inside
> out without any luck. Anyone seen one of those somewhere?
>
> Kathleen Weessies
> Maps/GIS Librarian
> 100 Library 308
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
> 517-432-9669
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