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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Oh look at me just learning over here against my will.

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I loved getting lost in these posters. Half to escape and half to learn. Like a little me would go live in the poster for a while.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago
[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

My adult daughter said a big version of this was on the wall in her elementary school classroom, so yeah.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I just learned what sounds are neat!

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I thought a Point was also a feature, like Cape.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

These confused me more than they educated really. Still do!

Whats the difference between a bay and a gulf? A prairie and a plain? W coast and a beach? A strait and a channel? A river and a channel? A basin and a valley?

[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not understanding what an isthmus is from the picture. Center of a peninsula?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Really it's a narrow bit of land that would be a peninsula if it wasn't for the large bit of land on each end

The famous isthmus is the Isthmus of Panama, the narrow part of the Americas where the canal runs