I'm a bit of a geek, and spent many lunches in the library glossing over the world atlas, so I am pretty good at this. Not only do I know the maps, but I know most of the FLAGS of the world as well. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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never said they are worse than... | |
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don't look at me like WHUT but i've watched yako sing the states and countries of the world...
Lyrics to Yakko's World (Countries Of The World) : Announcer:
And now the nations of the world, brought to you by Yakko Warner! Yakko: United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean Greenland, El Salvador too. Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela Honduras, Guyana, and still, Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil. Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam. Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland And Germany now one piece, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia Italy, Turkey, and Greece. Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania Ireland, Russia, Oman, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran. There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal France, England, Denmark, and Spain. India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan, Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia) And China, Korea, Japan. Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia The Philippine Islands, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand Then Borneo, and Vietnam. Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia Guinea, Algeria, Ghana. Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo The Spanish Sahara is gone, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia Egypt, Benin, and Gabon. Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali Sierra Leone, and Algiers, Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya Cameroon, Congo, Zaire. Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia... Crete, Mauritania Then Transylvania, Monaco, Liechtenstein Malta, and Palestine, Fiji, Australia, Sudan i am KING BAD!!!
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Didn't say you did, but if you quantify them as terrible, there is an understanding that something makes them terrible. What makes them so terrible as opposed to horrors elsewhere is what I was asking. You defined them as terrible, what makes them terrible and worthy of being labeled as a group as such opposed to other countries that may or may not be equally terrible by whatever standard you are using?
If I say Mississipi and Texas are the worst states in the U.S. I think it would be on me to say by what standard they are worse and not just say I didn't say Louisiana was terrible.
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The bolded are not nations. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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I read The Book of Lists 1 & 2. That a fun fascinating read even if you have no interest in what's being listed. For me other lists made me do more research into the subject. I recommend keeping that around the house because even someone who doesn't read may glance at the lists on different topics. We also had a set of encyclopedias in the hallway outside the bathroom. If I went in the bathroom to sit down, I just grabbed one and found something to read while I was in there. Always something new to find. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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I'm not as good as I used to be, but I could probably still ID all European nations and their capitals with the exception of some former Soviet countries.
Same goes for the American states and their capitals, as well as Canadian provinces/territories and their capitals. I'm less good at the Mexican states and Caribbean countires of North America.
At one point, I easily could rattle off the vast majority of the globe. For all the flaws of the public school system where I grew up, its geographic curriculum was actually pretty good in retrospect. Also, my mother always kept globes and atlases in our home library. (Perhaps somewhat strange, because in her 72 years, she's only ever visited five American states and Toronto, Canada, to my knowledge -- and she's shown little interest in other parts of the world.)
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μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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apparently no one told yako warner i am KING BAD!!!
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Poor Wales lol Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
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i would recommend that google earth be a required course in high school. it is a great way to learn about planet earth. thank you, that is all | |
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Awesome resource. And since we now can virtually visit certain places, with a 360° ground-level view, it really enriches the experience of learning. Puts you right there!
Hell, I'd have never left geography class if I had such toys. [Edited 12/1/13 6:19am] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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If anyone finds themselves in the Yarmouth, Maine, area (I know. Who would? ), I recommend a visit to the DeLorme headquarters. They are a producer of mapping, GPS systems and topographic research technologies. They've got the world's largest rotating globe, "Eartha," in their lobby, and years back they published the fantastic Eartha World Travelog. That travelog remains one of the most informative, yet accessible, I've seen, though it's now sorely in need of an update from its latest 2000 edition...
Another resource I've found awesome is Lonely Planet's The Travel Book. it covers some 229 countries with great maps, sociopolitical and demographic info, travel tips, and wonderful photos. For something a bit less sprawling, there are area-speciific editions available as well as a Not for Parents kid's version. I've repeatedly found myself moved to pad my travel fund after spending hours with this book...
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Tobago isn't a nation either, it's Trinidad and Tobago With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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cough cough,
he sang the COUNTRIES of the world... he SANG them... you people are visious
coutries, not nations i am KING BAD!!!
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But the country is called Trinidad and Tobago ..... so he better not forget about Trinidad With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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one day, i'm gonna read a book and become truely DANGEROUS!!! i am KING BAD!!!
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good idea
I would not insist so much if it was about any other country but Trinidad will forever have such a special place in my heart With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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In junior high and high school, we had to learn: -provinces and province capitals of Canada -states and state capitals of USA -countries and country capitals of Europe -countries of Africa, rest of world | |
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Darn Org! [Edited 12/2/13 16:23pm] 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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We may not be the best at Africa-but in our defense, countries change more frequently in Africa in the last 30 years than any where else in the world. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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I was going easy, hence allowing Tobago.
What is the difference between a country and a nation? I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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That I disagree with. Not an acceptable defense anyway.
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eastern europe is as guilty, and I don't know any of those so well either
anything that changed since I did geography in high school 30 years ago I can forget about I'm the mistake you wanna make | |
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99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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My serious point, re: this whole discussion about lines and names on a map, is that I never took much from the abstract exercise of learning by rote where all the labels go (and I don't really think we should derived too much from the fact that most people can't do that, tbh). But if someone can connect those changing names and the shifting lines to the human stories behind them - and how human stories always play out on a stage set by history, politics, geography, etc, and sometimes remake that stage - they'll have me hooked, and I'll have some reason to care about these abstract facts, because I'll be able to connect them to something meaningful. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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