In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world.

South America seemed to fit into Africa.

North America seemed to fit into Northwest Africa and Europe.

He proposed that the continents may have at one time been joined and subsequently moved.

The scientific community laughed at him and rejected his idea.

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Alfred Fegginer was a really interesting guy.

Born in 1880 in Germany, got its degree in astronomy but became a meteorologist, which

was still a rather new field at the time.

His primary interest was in the northern polar regions and how air circulated.

He participated in four expeditions to Greenland and was one of the first meteorologists to adopt the use of weather balloons.

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