Geography question

[Felix Neumann]

mine too.

my other grandma was from Silesia. (Schlesien)
And she doesn't liked prussian for some reason, I don't remember what they did to them exactly.

Haha that´s so cool, bro She made the best "Königsberger Klopse" of the world! You propably know this menu then.

 

[Metaltastic]

Cool topic, I totally never noticed this even though I was into geography as a kid.

Yeah, and I'm a freakin' geography major, so I really have no excuse!

 

[abyssofdreams]

Yeah, and I'm a freakin' geography major, so I really have no excuse!

Oh really?

I have to put you to the test then, just let me find this flash....sec.

 

[Metaltastic]

Hahahaha, well Urban Planning specifically (a concentration in the Geography major), so I'm usually more concerned with local stuff - but bring it on!

 

[abyssofdreams]

http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

There's multiple tests but I found the "World" one quite challenging already...

 

[abyssofdreams]

There was another one with just naming countries and clicking at the correct spots but I can't find it... just some crappy copies of the original (which was fairly addicting)

 

[Metaltastic]

http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

There's multiple tests but I found the "World" one quite challenging already...

Hmm, I'm doing pretty good so far, except for the Oceania stuff, DAMN (I hadn't even heard of East Timor until is asked me )

 

[Metaltastic]

PSSHH, what the fuck is Maldives, and who gives a shit about it - honestly...

 

[abyssofdreams]

PSSHH, what the fuck is Maldives, and who gives a shit about it - honestly...

 

[Metaltastic]

Made it to level 10, but all these random islands off the coast of Australia fucked me over - whatever, ain't give no shit about 'em anyway!

As to the above, well...there's plenty of place I HAVE heard of (that actually show up on the map) that look like that too

 

[abyssofdreams]

haha I hear ya but I find those tests quite entertaining, I never get those African cities right and sometimes the stuff in the middle east

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, of course I'm kidding, I'm sure the ~100 residents on each of those islands care greatly about their homes And the middle east stuff I pretty much nailed, having taken a bunch of geography classes that went over it; also, I'm especially proud of nailing all the Southeast Asia stuff (Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, etc.), though yeah, for a lot of the Africa ones I just clicked in the middle of the continent and hoped for the best Ditto with central America, though fortunately that's a much smaller area so I was always pretty much right (fuck if I know which one is Costa Rica, El Salvador, etc., though at least Panama is obvious cuz it's got the canal!)

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I want to go to Maldives. Those pics look like a good time.

mAlignant melanoma written all over it though,

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah dude, my Mom has had to have two malignant spots removed from her face (fortunately the scars are practically invisible, and one happens to be right in the middle of the cleft above her upper lip ), so I'm all too aware of the dangers!

 

[fade_2_black]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast

It's a federal subject of Russia. Ah cmon dude, is this really so weird? Wait... whats this piece of territory west to Canada...? Holy shit it's USA

Aaaahhahaha

 

[colonel kurtz]

Of course dude! It is like this everywhere though. Here in the U.S.A., they will briefly skim over the first 4-5 years of the war, then jump right into the allied invasion lol. Like..."Hitler invaded the Sudetenland...errr ummm...the Nazis were bad...alright kids, onto D-Day!!"

I'm very proud of my country's service in the war, don't get me wrong. While the allied invasion during the war was quite critical, I'm still quite baffled that the early period of the war isn't covered in greater detail. It's all very significant and should be taught!

-Joe

what really fucks with me is how most history classes completely neglect to mention how WWII started in the 1st place....i know that when i was in school, they devoted about 3 paragraphs to how hitler rose to power in the 30s, then it's a quick blurb about austria being annexed and poland invaded...then it's pearl harbor, iwo jima, d-day, some big-ass bombs, and then a good ol' "AMERICA, FUCK YEA!"

 

[J.DavisNJ]

what really fucks with me is how most history classes completely neglect to mention how WWII started in the 1st place....i know that when i was in school, they devoted about 3 paragraphs to how hitler rose to power in the 30s, then it's a quick blurb about austria being annexed and poland invaded...then it's pearl harbor, iwo jima, d-day, some big-ass bombs, and then a good ol' "AMERICA, FUCK YEA!"

True my friend! Trust me, I'm a patriot and love this country, but our educational systems are truly fucked in certain respects.

-Joe

 

[Metaltastic]

Eh, I dunno, it really depends what class you're taking - general high school "history" has to cover a fuckload of material, so of course an American course is gonna focus more on the American side of things, I can't really say I have a problem with that (just as I wouldn't care if an English high-school history course waxed endlessly about all the crap they did). However, in college (at least in NY) there's separate classes of US History and Western Civilization (essentially European history), so I feel that covers each more importantly

 

[Glenn Fricker]

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I'm very proud of my country's service in the war, don't get me wrong. While the allied invasion during the war was quite critical, I'm still quite baffled that the early period of the war isn't covered in greater detail. It's all very significant and should be taught!

-Joe

It is... just not in the States. American History is somewhat self-centered & I'm sure most classes (at the highschool level anyway) ignore important events like Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain and skip ahead to Pearl Harbor.

 

[J the TyranT]

Got to 10 also... it gets ROUGH right then... jeez.