Africa's true size, for example, has been chronically downplayed throughout the history of mapmaking, and even now, non-Africans tend to underestimate the size of that truly massive continent – which is large enough to cover China, the US and much of Europe.
Long distance relationships are incredibly difficult, especially if the distance is between TWO oceans and a massive continent.
The UN's World Food Programme estimates that 24.8percentt of the people living in sub-Saharan Africa go hungry every day -- and that's only part of this massive continent.
You and I know many examples in the West, but I think of Anupam Jalote, who quit one of the most senior jobs in Indian telecommunications to develop anaerobic digesters so that villagers all over the massive sub-continent could cook with local sources of renewable energy.
As the oil dried up and the ships stopped moving goods between the continents, massive numbers of people starved in areas that were previously fed by once healthy ocean fisheries and huge shipments of food from far away lands.
The Arctic is a confined, relatively shallow ocean basin surrounded by land, whereas the Antarctic is a massive, ice-covered continent surrounded by thousands of square miles of deep, open ocean.
As Dave Serchuk reported, bush fires are not the only disasters stemming from massive droughts the continent has been dealing with over the past seven years.
But the reality of living on the massive, isolated seventh continent is very different from the glacial fantasy.
On the other side of the continent, massive lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and sex-obsessed bonobos exult in the exuberant vegetation of lush forests - that is until lumber companies chop them down.
Prompted at first by Hasidism, a mystical movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, and spurred later by other social, educational, and political movements, Yiddish was carried to all the world's continents by massive emigration from eastern Europe, extending its traditional role as the Jewish lingua franca.
