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The Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (1602), the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It was printed in China at the request of the Wanli Emperor by the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, Mandarin Zhong Wentao and the technical translator, Li Zhizao. The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world.

• ... that Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer Matteo Ricci became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when he was invited to become an adviser to the imperial court of the Wanli Emperor; and that this honor was in recognition of Ricci's scientific abilities, chiefly his predictions of solar eclipses, which were significant events in the Chinese world; and that Ricci was given free access to the Forbidden City but never met the reclusive Wanli Emperor, who, however, granted him patronage, with a generous stipend and supported Ricci's completion of the Zhifang Waiji, China's first global atlas?

• ... that I Am Joe's Antenna the autobiography of an evolved antenna embedded in the skull of a man known only by the pseudonym Joe, and that the autobiography was commissioned by Reader's Digest under contract to Extract of Radium?