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CGcathygellis.bsky.social

Circa 1992 Spy Magazine called up a bunch of Congresspeople and asked them for their opinion about the crisis in Freedonia. A whole bunch gave serious (and therefore wrong) answers. #DuckSoup

TLswordsjew.bsky.social

but seriously this is kind of amazing?

Geography in the classroom and in Congress Walz said he was an early adopter of GIS software in the 1990s, using it, among other things, to teach high school students about the Holocaust. He had his students build maps of the contemporary world using different layers of data that scholars believed could factor into modern-day genocides. “They started looking at food insecurity, potential drought, just like the UN was doing around famine early warning,” Walz said. In 1993, he asked his sophomores where they thought the next genocide might happen, based on the geographic data. They pinpointed Rwanda. The following year, the Rwandan Genocide occurred. The New York Times interviewed some of the students involved in the project in 2008, when Walz was a U.S. congressman. Walz also criticized his former congressional colleagues for their lack of knowledge about global geography. He spoke of “blank stares” in an Armed Services Committee hearing when he brought up the Durand Line, referring
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Ffaisalhamadah.bsky.social

Really like the ducksoup cookbook

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submergingartist.bsky.social

This is my favorite war scene of all time. #DuckSoup#TCMParty

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AHalanhait.bsky.social

Maybe one of top 5 funniest movies ever made #DuckSoup#TCMParty

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TRscience-goddess.bsky.social

Anyone else having #DuckSoup#TCMParty

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