That means the North Star is mostly visible from the Northern Hemisphere. If you go South, from your perspective, the star appears lower to the horizon. Go further South, and you can't see the North Star at all. He's saying that the Greeks already knew the Earth was round thousands of years ago.

Chicken fried steak, pork fried steak. The cooking technique is the same as schnitzel.

Country fried steak by another name

I'd level out some floating deck concrete blocks and call it a day.