Yes ! Apparently they did lie to you. But they perhaps couldn't help it, perhaps they'd never been to England. They didn't take you to Greenwich and have you straddle the famous Greenwich Meridian, and tell you that one foot was in the Western and one foot was in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Crap...well, of course I know that technically the Greenwich Meridian marks temporal hemispheres; I just seem to have long had the impression that geographic hemispheres were based on the "New World"/"Old World" dichotomy. But consider me now much more goodlier edumicated!
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Jerry D. Harris
Director of Paleontology
Dixie State College
Science Building
225 South 700 East
St. George, UT 84770 USA
Phone: (435) 652-7758
Fax: (435) 656-4022
E-mail: jharris@dixie.edu
and dinogami@gmail.com
http://cactus.dixie.edu/jharris/
The way to a man's heart is through
his stomach.
-- old proverb
"The way to a man's heart is through
the fourth and fifth ribs."
-- Katchoo (and others)