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Let me address the people who live now, or have ever lived, in the Northern Hemisphere. When you look up into the night sky, to find the "Big Dipper" or "Ursa Major" (depending on whether one is from the east or the west of the Prime Meridien), and from it trace the path to Polaris, the "brightest star" in the N hemisphere night sky, and thus to ascertain the location of "due" North, since Polaris is the N. Pole star, you are being fooled by a lie. Polaris may be the N. Pole star now, but it was not always, nor shall it always be so. In 14000 bc, Vega was the N. Pole star, not Polaris. In 3000 BC the N. Pole star was Thuban, a star in the constellation Draco.