Medieval mapmakers wanted to chart their orientation to the Garden of Eden or Mecca; Mercator wanted to make things easier for sea-faring navigators; and colonialists wanted to plot the extents of their empires.
Equities have been bouncing around, but are generally down since April, albeit to different extents in different regions.
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Many were inspired by reforms pioneered in England and since emulated, to varying extents, in much of the English-speaking world.
The study of genes in populations of animals, plants, and microbes provides information on past migrations, evolutionary relationships and extents of mixing among different varieties and species, and methods of adaptation to the environment.
Different emotions will manifest these different structures to different extents and in different ways, depending on the specific emotion, its type, and the circumstances.
Globally, the minimum and maximum sea ice extents are about 10 million square km and 28 million square km, respectively.
This pattern of poleward-moving tropical invasion was also occurring to various extents in the Gulf of Mexico, the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., the Mediterranean sea, and along the coast of Australia.
In addition, all countries in Africa depend to various extents on the military for the maintenance of order and for crisis intervention.
A given labour market, however, is more often segregated to different extents along both vertical and horizontal lines.
Jet streams whose extents are relatively isolated are called jet streaks.
