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When I was a kid all the maps said

notthatkindagay:

jasencomstock:

Peking.

When I was a kid there were 2 Germanies.

USSR and/or CCCP were still on most of our maps.

Reblogged 4 weeks ago from notthatkindagay (originally from jasencomstock)
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    The Shire instead of Canada.
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    okay….how about Zanzibar
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    LMAO. Damn, martin. ur OLD.
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    When I was a kid, Kosovo was a war zone. We were (thankfully) back to having only one Germany, but our maps still had...
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    that there wasn’t a Kosovo. Oh, and they all said Canada existed. It’s North Montana now!
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    Yeah…all I got is Pluto.
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    The world is flat and “Here be Monsters” Gosh did we feel silly when we found out that wasn’t how it worked!
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    Eureka wasn’t a magic word, it was a castle.
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    Florida was the micropenis of America!
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    I’ve already left, Elaine. I’m in Burma. You’ll most likely know it as Myanmar, but it’ll always be Burma to me
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    “Here Be Dragons”
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    Zaire instead of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yugoslavia still existed…
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    “Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union? We have so much power it’s ridiculous. Power. 11. 11?...
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    I remember in first grade taking a field trip to some science center that a had a giant globe in the lobby, and our...
  20. duckandpenguin reblogged this from talix18 and added:
    And Georgia was an SSR, not an independent country. The other Georgia, trip.
  21. meanmrmustard reblogged this from talix18 and added:
    They still haven’t changed the name of that tasty duck dish. :)
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    When I was a kid, the great nation Rand McNally had not yet sunk into the South Pacific Ocean.
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    One of my biggest childhood disappointments was my mom explaining to me that my atlas was out of date, and that the...
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    Africa was still notated as “The Dark Continent”
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    When I was a kid, people actually tried to remember all the names of the new countries coming out of Eastern Europe. And...
  27. pragmatism reblogged this from notthatkindagay and added:
    USSR and/or CCCP were still on most of our maps.
  28. notthatkindagay reblogged this from jasencomstock and added:
    When I was a kid there were 2 Germanies.
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