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where the sun clocks in first and the day starts winning.
means The compass direction toward the sunrise, opposite west, at a right angle to north and south.
from From Old English 'east,' rooted in a Proto-Germanic word (related to Old Norse 'austr' and German 'Ost') and ultimately the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning 'to shine' or 'dawn' — the same shining ancestor that gave Latin 'aurora,' the dawn goddess. So 'east' has always meant, quite literally, the place where the light comes up.
- sun bias
- Earth's spin means dawn always arrives from here
- old roots
- named for the dawn in many old tongues
- map habit
- north-up maps put east on the right by convention
- east vs west
- divides date lines, empires, and bad action movies
- orient origin
- to orient once meant facing east toward sunrise
east london — area of london, england, historically working-class district east of the city
east germany — german democratic republic, 1949-1990, soviet-aligned state during cold war
middle east — geopolitical region spanning western asia and north africa, includes 19+ countries