The world keeps changing
@GardenGerty (157545)
United States
September 17, 2018 7:21pm CST
I remember when every classroom had a globe and it was frequently used.
Then countries began rebelling and dividing, or even just changing names.
I think it is a metaphor for how our own personal lives and worlds change.
I did find this old globe to be really attractive at the Mill Sale we went to on Saturday.
Do you have a globe?
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@Juliaacv (48391)
• Canada
18 Sep 18
We do have a globe, its on a stand.
Our son picked it out for a Christmas gift for Daddy when our son was about 3 or 4 years old. Of course to him it was a ball on a stand.
Now he has a collection of globes. Different sizes, colours and styles.
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@Juliaacv (48391)
• Canada
21 Sep 18
@GardenGerty Thanks, and I remember it like it was yesterday.
When we down-sized last year, he actually thought that the globe was his, but my husband was quick to remind him that it was not.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Sep 18
We did have one in our home school room, right now it's in storage.
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@RasmaSandra (73365)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Sep 18
I do not have a globe at home but I do like that old globe a lot.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
21 Sep 18
I am going to be on the lookout for some for a craft I saw on Facebook.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
21 Sep 18
I would love to take apart high quality outdated atlases and use the pages as matting for pictures.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
6 Dec 18
@JudyEv When we put a border or background on pictures we refer to it as matting. I also would be interested in them as framed on their own.
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@JudyEv (325661)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Sep 18
@GardenGerty What do you mean 'as matting'? It's interesting to see really old atlases like my sister's old school atlas from around 1947. Half the world it seems was in the colour of the 'commonwealth' therefore British,
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@celticeagle (158958)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Sep 18
I used to. Now that the kids are grown I let it go.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16533)
• China
18 Sep 18
I have a globe intended for my granddaughter who now takes geographical class.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48907)
• United States
18 Sep 18
I did have one. I'm not sure what happened to it.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
21 Sep 18
I think it is for two reasons. Everyone wants to be digital for one thing. Another thing is countries keep changing boundaries and names and it is hard to keep up.
@xFiacre (12594)
• Ireland
18 Sep 18
@gardengerty Oh I do love globes and maps. I remember when Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka when I was an early teen and I worried that I would never remember such a name. Same went for Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. I was a child living in Nyasaland when it changed its name to Malawi 2 weeks after I got there - very disconcerting
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
21 Sep 18
Oh my, yes it would be unnerving to see the world change so quickly.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
18 Sep 18
No. We do not. And i dont remember using one in school too much.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
21 Sep 18
I do not think we used them much, but they were always there. I remember sixth grade, even where it was in the room and one of the kids talking about Vietnam.
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