| Prior to the invention of the television or perhaps | | | | screen, the popularity of the world globes |
| the radio, there was probably no single object | | | | continues to this very day-but why? |
| capable of inspiring more imagination than a | | | | In some cases, people shop for antique globes to |
| quality-made World Globe. The idea of colored | | | | place in their offices perhaps as a reminder of the |
| nations on some spinning globe representing far | | | | daydreams they once had as children. In other |
| off and exotic lands probably inspired more people | | | | instances, people adorn their desktops with a little |
| than almost any other invention in history. Of | | | | globe just to have a little escapism at hand on |
| course, with the invention of new learning tools | | | | those long afternoons when the mind tends to |
| like the Internet, some people have tried to claim | | | | wander. The point is, the classic World Globe is |
| that the infamous World Globe is a thing of the | | | | about possibilities and far off places where only |
| past and no longer has any place in the modern | | | | our imagination has the ability to wander. No |
| world. However, such people could not be more | | | | television special can ever compare with the |
| wrong if they tried. | | | | human imagination and that longing to explore the |
| The world may indeed be shrinking as | | | | world with our mind will never be quenched. |
| technological advances continue to bring people | | | | Of course, it does not hurt that newer globes |
| closer together. While many of us went to | | | | being produced by manufacturer's such as |
| schools where the ubiquitous World Globe could be | | | | Replogle are now making products that are |
| found in almost every classroom, this is not the | | | | illuminated giving even more raw material to the |
| case in many modern schools. Gone indeed are | | | | imagination with which to wander. So, if you have |
| the days when a student had the luxury of | | | | been shopping for someone who is still a child at |
| sauntering up to the front of the class to point to | | | | heart or simply looking to inspire a young mind, |
| some nation on a raised relief globe during some | | | | look no further than a quality-made World Globe! |
| Geography lesson. And while today's students | | | | It will NOT be one of those gifts that is tossed |
| may instead click a mouse when the pointer is on | | | | into the trash bin a month later and most people |
| the correct place on the map on a computer | | | | tend to keep their globes throughout their lives. |