Marco Polo - trader and explorer Thomas Malthus - worked in political economy and demography Christopher Columbus - explorer, navigator, coloniser Ptolemy - compiled knowledge of world geography Michael Jordan - majored in cultural geography at UNC and awesomest basketball player of all time Albert Einstein - "as a young man my fondest dream was to become a geographer" Mother Teresa - originally went to India to teach geography Prince William - studied geography at St Andrews university Alexander von Humboldt - naturalist and explorer
Wow, all these people who had an interest in geography and managed to be useful to the world in a completely unrelated way in spite of this major setback?
Nathan, calling someone a geographer, who wanted to be/is not famous for being a geographer is like calling a person who eats at McDonald's a Hamburger!
Nathan, Hate to point it out but none of the people I recognise there are Geographers.
ReplyDelete... or was that the joke?
ReplyDeleteMarco Polo - trader and explorer
ReplyDeleteThomas Malthus - worked in political economy and demography
Christopher Columbus - explorer, navigator, coloniser
Ptolemy - compiled knowledge of world geography
Michael Jordan - majored in cultural geography at UNC and awesomest basketball player of all time
Albert Einstein - "as a young man my fondest dream was to become a geographer"
Mother Teresa - originally went to India to teach geography
Prince William - studied geography at St Andrews university
Alexander von Humboldt - naturalist and explorer
does that clear it up for you?
ReplyDeleteWow, all these people who had an interest in geography and managed to be useful to the world in a completely unrelated way in spite of this major setback?
ReplyDeletehaha, funny.
ReplyDeleteNathan, calling someone a geographer, who wanted to be/is not famous for being a geographer is like calling a person who eats at McDonald's a Hamburger!
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