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Achievements in maths (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by [M] to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 47 points 5 months ago (21 children)

OK, I'll ask the question: who's the first guy?

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  • [–] [S] 75 points 5 months ago (20 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Kanye West?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Amerigo Vespucci

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    America isn't a hemisphere

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Mr Pacific Ocean?

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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    America

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    An approximate hemisphere of land

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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