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It’s hard to put into words exactly what makes Florida so unique. For so many people, it’s a place that’s close to the beach, with plenty of nightclubs to enjoy the best of pop culture. For so many others, it’s a vastly interesting place that is continually surprising the residents with baffling turns of events More often than not, they are the results of locals doing interesting things, and it’s not infrequent that the interesting things border on crazy or just plain bizarre. Although most days won’t land locals in a position where they have to contact a Florida workers compensation attorney , every day has something new to offer.

Florida does seem to have a knack for making its way into the national news for its colorful incidents. This is so much so that there is an almost unconscious tendency for some that when they hear about something bizarre, they assume it happened in Florida. This may or may not be the case with the story of the man who robbed a bank with a pitchfork . It makes for a great news story, but there’s also something suspicious about it that suggests it may be more of an urban legend. There are many other versions of the same story that set it in South Carolina . They could, of course, both be true, because stranger things have happened. But perhaps most interesting here is to note how the public imagination and perception shape how these events play out once they reach the information channels. It is another version of folklore, for a digital age.

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The largest map known to be created in modern times was a New York State road map that was featured in the 1964 World’s Fair . Composed on terrazzo tiling, it measured 130 feet by 166 feet and covered a half acre of exhibition space. Visitors to the Fair were able to literally walk on the map in order to trace different routes through the state and explore its geographical features.

Most people have trouble conceiving of maps on so large a scale, unless it is the subject of a silly music sequence in a movie, with actors dancing, running, and tumbling over it to represent travel. The largest map that an everyday person encounters would be the Ohio Wall Map in their kids classroom or the city map on the office wall.

When it comes to the other end of the scale, small maps, many people will think of the tiny screens on their GPS or smart phone. These devices manage to offer any scale and size of map reduced to a screen that is only a few inches across. However, it is globe making that inspires really small dimensions. Scientists have managed to project the entire earth onto a globe that measures only a few nanometers. It was created using laser technology.

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