Everybody seems to be going back to school these days.
While it's not unusual for children to head off to their neighborhood school, adults are returning in record numbers to colleges and universities around the country as well.
Inevitably, you or your child are going to need to know the lay of the land.
We're not talking about the school grounds, but the lay of the world.
If you haven't been back to school for a while, a lot of countries have changed their names.
If you still have a map showing the U.
S.
S.
R.
, you may want to get back to school with a desktop world globe that is not only beautiful, but accurate.
Geography is an essential part of our world today.
After all, we live in a global economy these days, and it's important to know where places like the Republic of Uzbekistan are (hint, it was part of the Soviet Union).
When you get back to school with a desktop world globe, you can go to class confident that you know that there's no longer a Belgian Congo or British Honduras.
Of course, if you get back to school with a desktop world globe, you also end up with a learning tool that doubles as a striking piece of art.
Who doesn't want to turn to a globe that is made of stunning semi-precious stones and lined with gold.
Or perhaps a more modern piece, one made of acrylic.
Not studying geometry or world economics? No problem.
How about a world globe that is out of this world.
You can get a globe that is a map of the moon as well, in case you're learning your geology, astronomy or even a bit of planetary mechanics.
If you have children at home, they can get back to school with a desktop world globe that will help them understand how the earth revolves around its axis.
Many globes can be tilted on their axis so you can show how the seasons work.
Just grab a flashlight and turn down the lights.
Tilt the globe to show why it stays light later in the summer and gets dark early in the winter and how when it's summer in the northern latitudes, it's actually winter below the equator.
Pretty cool stuff.
Plus you can dazzle them with the basics of why it's light here and night in China.
All with a flashlight and a globe.
When you or your child get back to school with a desktop world globe, you can have comfort knowing that you have a very accurate learning tool.
Skilled artisans spend hours assembling these beauties and given the unique nature of the materials, no two are exactly alike.
On the larger globes, the detail is exquisite, showing the borders between countries and how they all relate to one another.
When you get back to school with a desktop world globe, you learn such wonderful things about the world we live in.
While we often grow up in a little town out in the middle of nowhere, we find that the world, while a big place, isn't necessarily as big as we think it is.
In the vastness of the universe, we're just a tiny speck of cosmic dust spinning around a star.
But with a desktop globe you can appreciate the beauty of that speck with its huge seas of water, continents, countries and states, all spinning together in unison around in the cosmos.
In fact, it's hard to think what is more amazing...
the globe that is on your desk or the thing it represents.
For they are both astoundingly complex yet so uniquely beautiful.