does anyone know a map which has ALL of the lakes in canada, please tell me i have a blank map and i need to label all the lakes
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010Don’t You Just Love It When Canadians Lie About America And Then Do Not Give You A Chance To Respond?
Friday, February 26th, 2010Basically, I answer this man’s question about how he thinks the Canadian education system is better than the US’s and eventually he deletes my answer and sends me a lengthy email based on an incorrect fact. I then attempt to respond to this email yet he blocked communications with me. What does he have to hide
Here was my response BTW:
Hello brilliant Canadian, I am sure that you have not read this little nugget I found in a simple Google search. Of course because you are so Brilliant and charming, you wouldn’t need to look up your so called “facts”. Thank you and God Bless
In 2006, the National Geographic Society interviewed 510 young Americans people aged 18 to 24 — about geography. Interviewers handed people a blank map of the world and asked them to identify various countries. “Nearly all (94 percent) young Americans can find the United States on the world map,and Canada (92 percent) and Mexico (88 percent) are nearly as familiar,” the survey found.
So most Americans, it turns out, can find America on the map. They can find Canada and Mexico and even the Gulf of Mexico. You have to ask what’s done more damage to the nation’s image: Upton’s bad answer, or the pageant’s flawed question, which has erroneously convinced millions across the globe that Americans don’t know their own country?
Granted, there are lots of things Americans don’t know about the world. In the National Geographic survey, most respondents couldn’t find the United Kingdom, Egypt, and Indonesia on a world map, and more than 60 percent couldn’t find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. But, are these numbers so bad?
Remember, people in the survey were trying to place countries on unlabeled maps. That is, they were the sort of maps nobody ever uses, maps that, indeed, run contrary to the very aim of cartography. A map is a reference object; we make maps precisely so that we don’t have to memorize where things are, so that we can, instead, look up where things are.
***98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
***There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind youmake up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
***The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHaleSource(s):=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2…