----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Last night I was working on a project with some friends who are NOT oriented to anything geographical (three of them are salespeople, one is a bank examiner, one runs a pre-school). We were talking about getting Christmas/Hannukah presents and one lady mentioned she'd seen a globe for sale that was "anatomically correct". That gave me the giggles and I thought you guys would like it too. Of course, what she meant was that the globe had a relief surface with mountains and valleys rather than the usual smooth surface that many globes have. She has actually bought one for her four-year-old extremely precocious nephew. ;-) Happy Holidays everybody!