<span>This is called a stress interview. These interviews are used to see how job candidates react to unusual circumstances and how they respond to pressure. Employers can used these to see which applicants are the best qualified for the job at hand.</span>
The lines that run from the top to bottom through the North and South poles is called the Prime Meridian.
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After Christopher Columbus reached the shores of a new continent he was convinced that he reached shores of India. But many explorers doubt this. Among them was Amerigo Vespucci. He was convinced that Columbus reached a new continent, unknown to Europeans, not India. Therefore he traveled on his own across Atlantic Ocean in 1497. He reached the shores of todays Brazil. He realized that he reached the shores of a territory unknown to Europeans, which he named New World. In respect to Vespucci's achievement the whole continent was named after him - America.