[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menace
[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menace
It's a WaPo article that's a 12 minute read - https://archive.ph/C6mna
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Why is it upside down?
because wh*tes decided which way was right side up
Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
Antarctica is clearly earth's hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
I prefer this explanation, tbh.
The earliest known compasses humans used were called "zhi nan zhen," meaning "south pointing needle." It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
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