A mappamundi from 1510 is the first globe to indicate the then-newly discovered American continent: America terra noviter reperta.
The first Globe, based on the skeleton of the original Theatre of 1576, was unique not just as the most famous example of that peculiar and short-lived form of theatre design but because it was actually the first to be built specifically for an existing acting company and financed by the company itself.
The first globes were "celestial" models of the heavens — what Atlas shoulders (it's the sky, after all, that seems round).
It appears nearly round and, like the first and the second Globes (the first burned down in 1613, the second closed in 1642), it has a proscenium thrust stage; "groundlings" stand in an open space between the seats and the boxes, and can get close enough to put their elbows on the boards.
After a string of amusing cameos at previous awards ceremonies, Gervais had been selected as the first Globes host in 15 years (in the past, they used a Tannoy system).
Martin Scorsese took the best director gong for Hugo, the third directing Globe in the last 10 years for Scorsese, who previously won for Gangs of New York and The Departed and received the show's Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement two years ago.
This, incidentally, is a history the snow globe is wrapped up in, as the first snow globe model appeared at the 1878 World's Fair.
In 1535 he helped Frisius make the first terrestrial globe, followed quickly by a celestial counterpart.
Cicero recorded that The first Hellenic globe of the sky was made by Thales of Miletus, having fallen into a ditch or well while star-gazing.
De republica, I, 14 The first Hellenic globe of the sky was made by Thales of Miletus, having fallen into a ditch or well while star-gazing.
