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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 13 days ago

Achievements in maths

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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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