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  1. The Earth's Western Hemisphere which
  2. contains North and South America separated
  3. by Central America and extends from the 
  4. Arctic to the Antarctic oceans. The name 
  5. "America" is taken from the Florentine 
  6. Navigator Amerigo Vespucci who was supposed
  7. to be the first European to reach the
  8. American mainland in 1497.
  9.  
  10. Subject by: Vince Pike
  11.