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Any news on Peace Talks
Arjan:
My grandfather had an atlas of 1939 I often looked in as a child. I don't know what happened to it.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Arjan on February 09, 2019, 05:39:38 AM ---A lot of knowledge is like that. No particular understanding is needed and you can drill it into young children’s heads. But that does not mean it is always useless knowledge, not if you build upon it.
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I didn't say that Geography was useless, I said that it was illusionary. In particular with respect to this.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias --- I've often wondered how many states can the European insulting Americans' knowledge of geography can name.
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I suppose that a better word would have been superficial. For instance three important things are absent from KurtinStGeorge's puzzle.
--- Quote from: Arjan on February 09, 2019, 09:05:14 PM ---My grandfather had an atlas of 1939 I often looked in as a child. I don't know what happened to it.
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I had my father. Shot in the hand in some firefight in Africa that he wouldn't talk about. And full of stories which became part of family lore. My sister and I speculate endlessly about secrets that we imagine to exist.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Dina on February 08, 2019, 10:05:44 PM ---Not only mine, but even such important countries as Italy or modern Germany. ...
I cannot name the internal divisions of any country but mine (23 provinces + Buenos Aires city) and, to a certain degree, USA :).
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I find a lot of people don't realize how young Germany and Italy are. I think it is because as places or nations, but not countries or nation-states, Germany and Italy "have always been there."
I bet you could name more than you think. Like England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are parts of the U.K. Or perhaps being from former Spanish colony, you can recall all or most of the major political subdivisions of Spain. (I could only get Catalonia, but after looking it up, remembered a couple of others, but definitely not most).
Dina:
Yes about UK. Spain, more or less like you. Half of my family is from Catalonia, so that is easy, and I can remember others but not all. Piece of useless trivia: In Argentina, we informally call all the Spaniards "Gallego" (from Galice). Similarly, we derived the world "tano" from "Napolitano" (from Napoli) and we call all the Italians "tanos". :-*
Bad Alias:
I figure the UK is easy for me because, from a certain perspective and to a certain point, it is US history, and my family is English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (plus all the other stuff just about everyone on this side of he Atlantic will be after their family has been here for several hundred years).
Being from Texas, we study Spanish colonial history as part of Texas history. Mostly the conquistadors. (I still don't know what the Incan Empire has to to with Texas history). We also learned a tiny bit about Spanish history when learning about Christopher Columbus.
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