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POPSFine and Rare Original Antique Maps, Sea charts and Atlases
We are specialist dealers offering the finest and rarest antique maps of all regions of the world. Part of our collection of thousands of antique maps is available on-line. The antique maps and sea charts featured here are guaranteed authentic antiques that were printed hundreds of years ago, most of them as early as the 16th and 17th century. Each antique maps is provided with a certificate of authenticity. We do not offer modern reproductions or copies of old maps. We focus on rare and decorative maps and charts, with emphasis on the early material from the era of exploration and the time of the voyages of discovery. Our aim is to offer high quality items for a fair price and good value for money. Maps that do not meet up to expectation are refunded without questions, because we want happy customers only. Our clients are collectors, dealers, museums, and institutions. And customers who are simply looking for a decorative antique map for themselves or as a gift for someone else,
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POPSImagine Peace The electricity for the light is generated entirely naturally - geothermally from hot water - at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant and is one of the reasons for situating the artwork in Iceland. The Imagine Peace Tower is closely connected to Ono's interactive artwork Wish Tree from 1981. The Wish Tree has been integral to many of Yoko's exhibitions around the world in museums and cultural centers where people have been invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch. Now amounting to over 700,000 wishes. They are to be housed at the Imagine Peace Tower. EarthCam visitors are invited to send wishes to the Imagine Peace Tower archives by email to wish@imaginepeace.com or by mail to: IMAGINE PEACE TOWER PO Box 1009 121 Reykjavik, Iceland. You can send as many wishes as you like, as often as you like. The site also has many live cams up all over the world, wicked cool stuff!
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POPSI See London... So far I have been to Aruba, Hawaii, London, New York, Italy, Rio de Janeiro, Greece, a zoo, a few nature trails, and Iceland all in one day! Whew! I should be tired, lol. Really cool viewing of Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square here, although it is dark there now, so check back tomorrow at an earlier time, it's nearly 10 p.m. atm. Use the 3 different camera views under the feed to choose which place you want to see.
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POPSIcelandic Caretaker Government Wins General Election The Social Democrats emerged as comfortable winners under Johanna Sigurdardottir, the 66-year-old lesbian caretaker prime minister. The Left-Greens, an alliance of old-style socialists and younger environmentalists never previously voted into power, got 21.5% of the vote.
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POPSIceland in HDR (20 photographs) “From an early age I enjoyed paging through books about art and admired the paintings of many painters, ranging from the renaissance masters to contemporaries as well as the few painters working in my home town of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Nowadays I find inspiration for my photography in the works of painters like Edvard Munch, Odd Nerdrum, Lucian Freud and J.M.V. Turner, as well as in many of the classic and contemporary photographers.“ Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson