Well obviously this is a replica.

Here's a replica of one such seal.

I'd bought a replica, a really crappy replica, of the Maltese Falcon on eBay, and had downloaded enough pictures to actually have some reasonable reference.

A replica of this is at the United Nations.

And it was replaced with replica jewelry made of cast iron.

Here's a giant flying replica of a pterosaur that has no tail.

And this one, this is a replica from a 15th century device.

On the far left is a piece of crap a replica I bought on eBay.

It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

In time, the cartographers became even more ambitious they drew a map that was an exact, one to one replica of the whole empire. As Borges wryly notes, subsequent generations could find no practical use for such an unwieldy map.

In this connection, an on site evaluation was undertaken by the Archive and Records Management Section of the Secretariat to determine what arrangements needed to be made for the preservation of a full replica of these records by the Secretariat.

Indeed, Taiwanese capital and know how built much of China s hi tech industries, and well over a half million Taiwanese live and work near Shanghai in a virtual replica of Hsin Chu, Taiwan s Silicon Valley. But in Chen s Taiwan, domestic squabbles took precedence over economic development.

And one of the most interesting lessons I learned was that there is an experimental method that if you have a question you can create a replica of this question in some abstract way, and you can try to examine this question, maybe learn something about the world.

ISTANBUL The small park in Taksim Square in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul is one of the few green spaces left in the city center. On May 28, a handful of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments.

The conversion of all eurozone national bonds into obligations jointly recognized by all eurozone governments is a replica of the solution to the ERM s breakdown, which consisted in abandoning national currencies in favor of the euro. This would cost Germany control over the quality of its credit, just as the replacement of the Bundesbank by the ECB implied Germany s loss of control over the quality of its currency (though it was given a large role in designing the ECB).

If European integration shifts into reverse, the outcome will not be a series of happy and prosperous nation states, living in a sort of replica of the 1950 s or 1960 s. Southern Germans would wonder whether they were not transferring too much to the north s old industrial rustbelt northern Italians who support the anti EU Lega Nord in the self styled unit of Padania would want to escape from the rule of Rome and the south.