Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!allynh From: allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing Message-ID: <9055@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 07:56:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9055 Posted: Sun Jul 14 07:56:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 04:20:28 EDT References: <814@ihlpg.UUCP> <2020@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Reply-To: allynh@ucbvax.UUCP (Allyn Hardyck) Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 11 In article <2020@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> mercury@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Larry E. Baker) writes: >I think that the inhabitants of {Dresden, Berlin, London, >Munich, etc.} would disagree. When you say "Western Hemisphere," >I assume you include the entirity of "Western Civilization," which >includes most of Europe. Wrongo - the Western Hemisphere is (technically) that hemisphere containing everything east of the International Date Line and west of the Greenwich Meridian, so it would contain part of London (and Ireland, etc.) - but in practice it is North and South America, Greenland, and the Caribbean. Never heard the term "American Hemisphere" used before.