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Facetious Critical Geography, JFK Edition

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Ken Ochieng' Opalo
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jfk

Source: xkcd

Social construction, yada yada yada.

And on a slightly less serious note,  did you know that it is completely artificial that we have North at the top of maps?

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