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skipThings posted:Thank you gently caress you Belgium and your diamonds. I lost the middle school geography bee by not knowing it had the world's largest diamond market. The guy before me was asked "Which country is known for its Great Wall?'
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Ethiser posted:gently caress you Belgium and your diamonds. I lost the middle school geography bee by not knowing it had the world's largest diamond market. The guy before me was asked "Which country is known for its Great Wall?' Oh God. I won my middle school geography bee in the 6th grade, so expectations were high in the 7th grade. I ended up losing in the qualifying rounds to some question I don't remember, but the representative from my class got a bunch of softballs in the qualifying round and ended up failing in the competition on "What island off the coast of New York was the destination of millions of immigrants during the Gilded Age as an immigration processing center?" He answered Portugal. 
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I answered the final question on my city's Middle School quiz bowl thing correctly because of Age of Empires. The question was what was the forest called along the southern French/German border and I guessed "Black Forest" because it was one of the random map options in the game lol imagine the smug as hell 13yo paradox game players nowadays blowing away geography quiz bowls
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May 16, 2014 01:21
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Pakled posted:This page has closeups on all the regions that are hard to read. Teak.
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I learned more about non-US history from reading Paradox LP threads than I did in high school, and it isn't even close.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:imagine the smug as hell 13yo paradox game players nowadays blowing away geography quiz bowls As long as they don't ask where Stalingrad is, they're golden.
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Mikl posted:No need to apologize! From the last page but I just wanted to say that no you came off fine in your replies, I said sorry because I thought I was being kinda a jackass in smugly pointing out something that wasn't even as true as I thought it was 
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Koramei posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland I normally only see it shown on maps of Somalia itself, and then usually Puntland is along with it.
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Count Roland posted:I normally only see it shown on maps of Somalia itself, and then usually Puntland is along with it. it was divided along the same border before decolonization (british in puntland and italian in the south) so sometimes thats why you still see it
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Baronjutter posted:Here's a language map of Canada Most commonly spoken language other than English or French? Only thing that surprises me is German in Yukon, rather than a native language.
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May 16, 2014 05:41
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I dunno why but there are piles of germans up there being all jager and such. They are like terminators, killing everything they can legally.
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May 16, 2014 05:53
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Mu Cow posted:Countries by top export. Soft Drink Concentrates? That's one highly specialized economy.
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adhuin posted:Soft Drink Concentrates? That's one highly specialized economy. When New Coke was introduced it crashed the economy of Madagascar because Coca-Cola was the largest consumer of natural vanilla in the world and New Coke didn't use it.
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May 16, 2014 06:23
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So you guys better keep buying expensive engagement rings and poo poo so I don't lose my lucrative job in the diamond industry.
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Phlegmish posted:So you guys better keep buying expensive engagement rings and poo poo so I don't lose my lucrative job in the diamond industry.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The destruction of Belgium is the goal of all right thinking people. This problem could have been solved already. Twice.
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May 16, 2014 07:29
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Riso posted:This problem could have been solved already. Twice.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The destruction of Belgium is the goal of all right thinking people. You mean the destruction of the Leftist Conspiracy to make people think there's a country called Belgium. Belgium doesn't exist. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 16, 2014 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:You mean the destruction of the Leftist Conspiracy to make people think there's a country called Belgium.  
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Torrannor posted:They have crosses in Bavarian classrooms as well, even though the German constitutional court ruled them unconstitutional. Not just in classrooms and not only in bavaria. A german court room in NRW. Notice something? 
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Pakled posted:Oh God. I won my middle school geography bee in the 6th grade, so expectations were high in the 7th grade. I ended up losing in the qualifying rounds to some question I don't remember, but the representative from my class got a bunch of softballs in the qualifying round and ended up failing in the competition on "What island off the coast of New York was the destination of millions of immigrants during the Gilded Age as an immigration processing center?" He answered Portugal. I came in fourth in my state geography bee because the loving moderator so brutally mangled his pronunciation of "Chichen Itza" that I wound up guessing "Iraq" because, you know, step pyramid and it didn't sound Egyptian.
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Metrication posted:Areas served by London’s major railway stations I can't tell what area is covered by Fenchurch St. Also, what is the third shade of blue covering Cornwall?
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Old James posted:I can't tell what area is covered by Fenchurch St. Also, what is the third shade of blue covering Cornwall? An extremely small strip right to the east of London, it's a little tough to see since it's just below the yellow area.
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Old James posted:I can't tell what area is covered by Fenchurch St. Also, what is the third shade of blue covering Cornwall? Served by both Paddington and Waterloo, same for the north of Scotland with KX and Euston.
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This is a wonderful inversion of that other one. It even makes me happy for Ohio. Libraries are to be treasured. 
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Metrication posted:Areas served by London’s major railway stations Kings Cross also serves Inverness and the Highlands, so the map is wrong. ...why do I know that?
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Goddamn Mississippi is awful, most churches and Alabama gets highest church attendance.
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IceAgeComing posted:Kings Cross also serves Inverness and the Highlands, so the map is wrong. The map does show that, that's why it merges the colors of Euston and King's Cross once in Scotland. I'm not sure I understand Iowa. Does that mean they take the least amount of sick days? I mean depending on the context that could be a terrible thing.
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I like that they couldn't find something measurable for Oklahoma so they just went with "Best License Plate"
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Ofaloaf posted:This is a wonderful inversion of that other one. It even makes me happy for Ohio. Libraries are to be treasured. Kansas has wheat. Good for them.
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May 16, 2014 21:11
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Pook Good Mook posted:The map does show that, that's why it merges the colors of Euston and King's Cross once in Scotland. No clue. Their sick leave laws seem to be fairly generous, but not the most in the US.
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tractor fanatic posted:I like that they couldn't find something measurable for Oklahoma so they just went with "Best License Plate" Polling?
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Churches per capita, church attendance woohoo Most vps born what an honor.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:well oklahoma does have the best license plate
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No Safe Word posted:Their actualy one is really boring, it just says "Native America" on the bottom of it and has Native American imagery (the new one has some silhouetted thing and I forget what the old one has) thats the newer one, they used OKLAHOMA IS OK until the 90s.
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No Safe Word posted:Their actualy one is really boring, it just says "Native America" on the bottom of it and has Native American imagery (the new one has some silhouetted thing and I forget what the old one has) The archer on the OK license plate is actually pretty baller.
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Pook Good Mook posted:The map does show that, that's why it merges the colors of Euston and King's Cross once in Scotland. I thought that the WCML trains only ever ended up at Central station, didn't know they went any further north...
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