#4462879 - 02/25/19 02:47 AM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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So you're doing a family history study such as Ancestry.com ?
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#4462888 - 02/25/19 05:17 AM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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So you're doing a family history study such as Ancestry.com ? No, I just realized there's a lot of information in those articles that goes far beyond what I learned in school (college included). My motivation to post the plan here was to inspire anyone who might want to do something similar.
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#4462889 - 02/25/19 05:18 AM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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Let me know when you read the Wiki articles for Liechtenstein and Andorra. I’m sure those will be fascinating. Well Andorra would be 52 days from now. No idea about Liechtenstein.
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#4462939 - 02/25/19 05:07 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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How will you do it? Alphabetically or just pick one on the map? Let me know if you learn anything interesting about Norway
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#4462945 - 02/25/19 05:28 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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Don't forget the US Territories...
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#4462948 - 02/25/19 05:55 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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How will you do it? Alphabetically or just pick one on the map? Let me know if you learn anything interesting about Norway US states alphabetically, but you raise an interesting idea - maybe with countries I'll go border by border within each continent, might be more "relevancy ties" that way...
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#4462949 - 02/25/19 05:56 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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Don't forget the US Territories... Good tip, actually hadn't thought of that... Also makes me realize Antarctica will be on this list...
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#4462970 - 02/25/19 08:21 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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I recommend Google Translating the history of other countries from their native languages, the english Wikipedia articles about the history of non-english countries is often quite barebones and without some interesting tidbits. For example, I just learned that in 1945, the 1st Russian Army in Wehrmacht Service surrendered to Liechtenstein, and even though they were pressurized by the Soviet Union to give the prisoners to them, they did not do so and gave asylum for all that wanted.
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#4462973 - 02/25/19 08:32 PM
Re: I've decided to read the entire Wikipedia article for all 50 states, then every country in the world
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I recommend Google Translating the history of other countries from their native languages, the english Wikipedia articles about the history of non-english countries is often quite barebones and without some interesting tidbits. For example, I just learned that in 1945, the 1st Russian Army in Wehrmacht Service surrendered to Liechtenstein, and even though they were pressurized by the Soviet Union to give the prisoners to them, they did not do so and gave asylum for all that wanted. It should be "pressured" not "pressurized". Pressurized is what happens to steam, water or a gas. Anyway, I bet that surrendering army increased Liechtenstein's native population by a significant degree! Those soldiers were extremely lucky they didn't end up in a Siberian gulag which would have been their fate had they been returned to the USSR.
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