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hemisphere

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A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle

All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other. Leonardo da Vinci

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods. Julian Jaynes

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures. Marshall McLuhan

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade. Paul Cellucci

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. Lyndon B. Johnson

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