globe
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Some 200 prints by more than 80 artists working around the globe tell the story of art photography from its beginnings in the 19th century through the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The original art for the piece featured a globe stitched out of yarn—crochet stitches, specifically.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation on her fate.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
If Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is to be believed, America will soon gain the dubious distinction of joining the only four countries on the globe that carry out executions in public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The box contained photographs, a few small objects, and a snow globe from the Coney Island lighthouse.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
He would study maps and globes, picturing the people and animals who call the coldest reaches of the Earth home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
And it came with added significance as she became the first man or woman in the history of the alpine skiing World Cup to win more than eight globes in a single event.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Half a world away, Japanese scientists are using shining golden globes to search for the same answers.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she captioned the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
By the time I got back upstairs, the stands had emptied and the lights had been dimmed to night mode, a pale green glow over the ice, a few yellowed globes along the walls.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Art Deco touches inform outdoor marquees, globed chandeliers, and vintage Audubon wallpaper is glinting with pink birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
The Peter Kiewit Foundation no longer is funding the maintenance of Abbott Drive, which includes the so-called String of Pearls - globed lights that line a stretch of the thoroughfare.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Donors have long paid for the so-called String of Pearls entrance, which features globed lights that line a stretch of Abbott Drive.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
A branch bounces, and out pops a Titi monkey with black, globed eyes and a pewter-colored beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the back of the room was a marble fireplace, big as a sepulchre, and a globed gasolier—dripping with prisms and strings of crystal beading—sparkled in the dim.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I seemed conscious only of a shaft of light, as it were, traversing the darkness and globing itself in a steady disc of radiance on a lonely door.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
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