Great auk (Pen Gwyn in Welsh), or, because the great auk had such large white circles on its head. When European explorers discovered what today are known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although biologically, they are not closely related. Whalers also lumped the northern and southern birds together under the common name "woggins". Standing about tall and weighing approximately as adult birds, the flightless great auk was the second-largest member of both its family and the order Charadriiformes, surpassed only by the mancalline "Miomancalla". The great
Masters of the Hemisphere and any number of other bands. In 2006 the Masters of the Hemisphere briefly reunited to play shows in Athens, Georgia; Lexington, Kentucky; and San Francisco. "Local Government", a song from "Protest a Dark Anniversary", was prominently heard in an environmental PSA that debuted on MTV on August 31, 2006. The Masters of the Hemisphere recorded a new album in 2010; released by Kindercore Records in 2011, the new album was entitled "Maybe These Are the Breaks". Masters of the Hemisphere Masters of the Hemisphere are an American indie pop group, founded by Bren Mead and Sean Rawls. The two