Skallagrim
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Make of that what you will!
My God, that lizard has a giant scrotum!
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My God, that lizard has a giant scrotum!
Zyobot
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PsihoKekec
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those Mauser pistols in plane - A-H really did it,before they manage to build HMG nests for their observers.
And,pistols somehow worked - i read about one polish pilot in A-H army,who in early war manage to schoot russian plane with his pistol.
ParadiseLost
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No self respecting woman would let her man go out wearing that.
King Krávoka
An infection of Your universe.
PsihoKekec
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Wait,who burned Sweden capital in 1187? and,do they even had capital then? early states usually had no one capital,but few towns in which King resided in year.
Skallagrim
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Indeed,Latvia is Center of universe here.Do not even look at them.
But it is OK,if you have map from USA perspective,then why Latvia should be worst?
willdelve4beer
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Well, a map from the average American's perspective probably wouldn't show Latvia at all - most Americans pay little to no attention to the rest of the world, and even then only notice the countries that are either active threats (on some level), have heavily advertised tourist spots, or their cuisine is already widespread in the USA.
So,Europe would be made From France,Italy and Germany for them?
Europe as commonly thought of in the US is "western Europe", IE The UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, plus Russia. Give our education system some credit, we generally know the major colonial powers that settled north America plus Germany and Italy, and of course Russia has been a longstanding opponent of the US so folks know it.
Now, between Germany and Russia... might as well be a blank map area. In fairness to many Americans, up until the late 1980s the way the Soviet Union ran the Warsaw Pact there really wasn't much distinction from East Germany to Russia... it was all "Soviet Bloc" to the US.
willdelve4beer
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pretty much - throw in Ireland for beer and rainbows, maybe Greece for athens or Spain for barcelona. Russia would be there as a former and current threat.
But...
A: everything between germany/adriatic and the russian border would be some hodgepodge of "models, gangsters, and battlefields" or somesuch.
B. the above presumes that they correctly identify the locations of Germany and Russia. I would not wager large sums on that assertion being true.
Foreigners really tend to forget - most Americans have no particular interest in the rest of the world, nor much inclination to invest the time and energy to learn about it.
Reminds me of the story of Americans back in the 1980's or earlier who were protesting against the Apartheid policies of South Africa - but who could not find where South Africa is on the map!
One would think the name of the country would give them a clue...
bintananth
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A random American might not be able to locate the US on a world map ...
Geography is not our strong suit.
I find that one hard to believe as maps are on display in ALL kinds of media that get viewed by average Joe.
bintananth
behind a desk
You should believe it.
Survey Reveals Geographic Illiteracy
The National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey polled more than 3,000 18- to 24-year-olds in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden and the United States.
www.nationalgeographic.com
From the article: "About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map."