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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 16, 2014 15:13:26 GMT -5
Having a typically poor American grasp of geography, I'm still trying to come to grips with the fact that Ghana & Guyana are different places, & on different continents, even. Throw in Grenada & things become even more hopeless. Not that residents of those places should take it personally; I'm pretty bad about certain aspects of American geography, too. I still can't reconcile myself to the fact that Boston is apparently north of New York. Surely the maps are lying about that. There's a French Guyana too. Toss in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea and it's even a bigger mess. But none of these are in the World Cup. All Dan B. has to keep track of is Ghana. (And if he decides to ignore the World Cup, he doesn't even have to concern himself with that!) |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 15:16:19 GMT -5
Having a typically poor American grasp of geography, I'm still trying to come to grips with the fact that Ghana & Guyana are different places, & on different continents, even. Throw in Grenada & things become even more hopeless. Not that residents of those places should take it personally; I'm pretty bad about certain aspects of American geography, too. I still can't reconcile myself to the fact that Boston is apparently north of New York. Surely the maps are lying about that. There's a French Guyana too. Toss in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea and it's even a bigger mess. Does any of this have anything to do with the Nu 52? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 16, 2014 15:17:46 GMT -5
If you've ever heard the phrase "the Gold Coast," that's Ghana.
Also, southern Ghana was part of the Ashanti kingdom, one of the more powerful kingdoms in that part of Africa before European occupation of the region.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 16, 2014 15:18:26 GMT -5
There's a French Guyana too. Toss in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea and it's even a bigger mess. Does any of this have anything to do with the Nu 52? Since Batwing took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, no. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 16, 2014 15:19:46 GMT -5
There's a French Guyana too. Toss in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea and it's even a bigger mess. Does any of this have anything to do with the Nu 52? It's probably more useful to learn the difference between Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea because that will still be the same in two years. |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 15:29:37 GMT -5
There's a great book called the wonga coup about Mark Thatcher's (margaret thatcher's son) failed coup backed by foreign investors interested in taking control of Equatorial Guinea's oil fields and inspired by a book by Frederick Forsyth (who mysteriously was in that region at the same time too) which saw him captured, imprisoned, bribed out of jail in Equatorial Guinea and expelled from the USA (his country of residence) for terrorism.
Always lots going on in any place called Guinea.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 17:03:10 GMT -5
well i hope everyone just saw what happened against ghana in under a minute. one of best goals of tournament.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 17:17:45 GMT -5
You're babbling again.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 18:51:02 GMT -5
If you've ever heard the phrase "the Gold Coast," that's Ghana. Also, southern Ghana was part of the Ashanti kingdom, one of the more powerful kingdoms in that part of Africa before European occupation of the region. The Ghana Empire was the first of three west African Empires in that region centered on the city we now call Timbuktu-The Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the Songhai Empire, all of which pre-date the Ashanti Kingdom. It's confusing because there are two modern nations in the region named Ghana and Mali that are separate and independent and they draw their modern names from the history of the region. Timbuktu was a center of culture and learning while Europe was in the squalor we call the Dark Ages and was rivaled by only Baghdad and Constantinople as centers of learning and wealth in the western world. The region's wealth centered on large natural supplies of gold and salt and surprisingly salt was the more precious of the two commodities for the empire. Ghana's successor Mali is the culture that produced The Sundiata, but the griots who developed that were drawing on traditions that dated back to the Ghana Empire. The most famous historical figure to emerge out of the region was the king Mansa Musa, who when he took the hajj, did not trust his court and uprooted the court in its entirety to travel with him on his pilgrimage to Mecca. He is said to have distributed so much gold as alms along the way that he depressed the economy of the region for nearly 2 decades as the economy was flooded with a sudden supply of specie. Bringing it to comics, Will Eisner's adaptation of the Sundiata is amazing, and the epic is the folkore used by Disney as the inspiration for the Lion King. -M (to borrow from Kurt-I summon the former global history teacher who developed many lesson plans and lectures on the history of the region in my decade of teaching) |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 19:05:50 GMT -5
If you've ever heard the phrase "the Gold Coast," that's Ghana. Also, southern Ghana was part of the Ashanti kingdom, one of the more powerful kingdoms in that part of Africa before European occupation of the region. It's confusing because there are two modern nations in the region named Ghana and Mali that are separate and independent and they draw their modern names from the history of the region. plus the capital city Ouagadougou which draws its name from the same history |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 19:27:33 GMT -5
USA beat Ghana 2-1... Against the local grain, I wagered on the US ( only a couple hundred tho)...ta mates!  |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 16, 2014 19:46:47 GMT -5
The world of baseball lost on of its finest players and perhaps one of the best hitters of the late 20th Century. Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres. While he was an opponent going against my Dodgers, the man was amazing to watch. One of the sweetest swings and the complete hitting package. Gone at age 54, battling salivary gland cancer.
Announcing the late great Jerry Coleman....
God speed Tony.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 23:18:04 GMT -5
Man I don't know if I have ever seen as many elbow injuries as I have this season. Two more bite the dust-Matt Weiters, Orioles catcher done for the year and getting TJ surgery and Chad Billingsly of the Dodgers done for the year and getting a torn tendon in the elbow repaired (not TJ surgery but still a 6 month rehab...)
Rough year and the body count keeps rising, and its not even the All Star Break yet...
-M
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Post by DubipR on Jun 17, 2014 8:28:37 GMT -5
Man I don't know if I have ever seen as many elbow injuries as I have this season. Two more bite the dust-Matt Weiters, Orioles catcher done for the year and getting TJ surgery and Chad Billingsly of the Dodgers done for the year and getting a torn tendon in the elbow repaired (not TJ surgery but still a 6 month rehab...) Rough year and the body count keeps rising, and its not even the All Star Break yet... -M Billingsley's career is done. Way too many surgeries in the span of 2 years and honestly who's going to sign him? Thankfully the Dodgers have a $3M buyout next year instead of paying him his salary, which is the best way to do it; also gives another spot on the roster to another pitcher.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 17, 2014 14:37:48 GMT -5
Mexico is looking pretty tough in the match against Brazil. Just a few minutes left in the first period and nobody has scored.
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