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Subject: Re: Olympic Rings aligned with LOVE2 -- an update
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 05:01:30 -0500
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I heard them say in passing last night that the five Olympic rings are 
supposed to represent "the five continents because Europeans are taught 
North and South America are one continent." Which is strange because 
they also separate Europe from Asia. (This is minus Antartica of course 
which has never been represented.)

There's always been a big controversy about the number of continents -- 
usually between 5 and 7. But as somebody on the web put it: "Continent 
is just an arbitrary term and there's no science behind it, you could 
say there were anywhere from 2 to 11 continents and I wouldn't call you 
crazy."