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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago

Achievements in maths

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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • chrisbtoo@lemmy.ca
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    OK, I’ll ask the question: who’s the first guy?

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      Simon Bolivar, liberator of most of South America. Bolivia is named after him.

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        Don’t forget The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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        Thanks! I had just done my first ever reverse image search and found that out.

        My best guess up until then was he was called Bob France or something 🙂

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          There are no remaining pictures of Bob France, so we can only speculate what he looked like.

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        Peanuts. There’s an entire hemisphere of earth named after one guy

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          Kanye West?

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            Nah, Peter North

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              Admiral William North

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            Amerigo Vespucci

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              America isn’t a hemisphere

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                No, bit the vast majority of all the land in the western hemisphere is called America.

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                Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close.

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          Simon Weston?

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          Mr Pacific Ocean?

          Because the other hemisphere is full of imperialists sitting up the place.

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            America

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              Yeah, I got the reference. Not an entire hemisphere, that’s just ameri-centrism.

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                An approximate hemisphere of land

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                  Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.

                  The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.

                  Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.

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                    Also to add on to that, the americas make up about 28% of earth’s land mass.

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        you should add name tags to the portraits

        unless you do that on purpose to lure people into the comment section

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          Generally I don’t make the memes. I’m just a reposter, and a lazy one at that.

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