• mech@feddit.org
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    All the immigrants from Southern Italy coming to New York:
    “It’s the same latitude, it’ll be just like home!”

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      That actually really fucked up the first French attempts to settle the St. Lawrence river. They knew it was a similar latitude as Paris so they were completely unprepared for their first winter in Quebec City.