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Is it more than normal, or is it just that you're getting to the age that it's your formative favorites that are dying?

Great question. Sitting here, I could probably do all or at least most of western Europe even without a map. Eastern Europe would be much harder for me. Same with SE Asia; I could name the  major places, but even with a map I might not be able to tell Myanmar from Burma*.
*(The answer to your question is "Yes".)
Africa is where I would fall flat. I'd do okay with northern Africa, but subSaharan Africa is another story. Not sure I'd get half of them right, even with a map outlining the countries.

I, too, would struggle mightily with Eastern Europe and Africa. In part because some of the political borders have changed (some dramatically) from when I was young.

@Vort-how would do with a map of Europe? Outside of Spain, Italy, the UK, and France, I’d stumble through it. I’d be cooked on Eastern Europe completely. 

I'm wondering - can you quote anything from that link to support any of your three claims?
Because when I read through it, I see stuff like:
I mean, there are an awful lot of big words in the study that I don't understand, but I do know what the word "cohort" means.  It means 'a bunch of people'. 
[bolding mine] I mean, all those N numbers refer to the number of individual humans involved in those studies.  
I'm failing to see how anyone could possibly think serotonin based treatment has never been studied.  Or that it was all theoretical based on chemistry alone, not actual observations of test subjects.
 
What this means, is that while we've been studying the holy living crap out of depression and brain chemistry, in and out of the lab, with a never ending tsunami of individual and group studies;  While we've even been doing meta-analyses of the studies, lumping many studies together and doing studies of the studies; while we've been doing all that for decades, nobody has made the effort to do a meta analysis  in order to "synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or activity in a systematic umbrella review of the principal relevant areas of research". 
 

Heh, I got Toronto cause...
 
 
 
 

The only reason I know where Toronto is is because it’s near a US landmark, Niagara Falls. 

Better than me. I got two. 

I’ll be honest, I would struggle greatly with Canada outside of Quebec. And even with Quebec I’d be really shaky. 

The only reason I know where Toronto is is because it’s near a US landmark, Niagara Falls. 

I forgot Ontario. I mean, I knew that Toronto was in a province, but I couldn't remember the name. That's like forgetting California or New York.

Better than me. I got two. 

You're talkin' to the guy who won Mr. Nelson's 6th grade homeroom semesterlong flash-card-state-capitals contest, pal.  That said, I'm probably down to about 15 state capitals, and maybe 20 states when given a map with borders.

I just tried it and got about half, including the territories. Not impressive.

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We see it vastly differently, that’s for sure. 
 
What we are hopefully unified on is the prayer that we never get there. 

We may see it differently, but I live it.  I like to think I have a clearer picture and more facts.  My position isn't emotional, it's derived from years of experience home and abroad.

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I could probably name all state capitals without a map or Google. 
 
very cool question. 

@mikbone  our friendly boomer lawyer @Just_A_Guy made some great points. I recommend not betting the house on the authenticity of the pic!

I see the similarity in the nose structure, but the lower jaw and eye corners look different to me.  Maybe that’s attributable to Joseph’s face having reportedly been bashed with the butt of a musket postmortem; I don’t know.
My bigger question is:  why didn’t we know about it before now?  The locket is traced to 1869 when Joseph III’s (second) wife, Bertha Madison, is wearing it in a photograph.  Bertha Madison has a life sketch up on FamilySearch.  She only converted to (RLDS) Mormonism in the mid-1860s, seems never to have met the Prophet, and would have been barely a year old even if she had.  Why is she carrying around the picture of a father-in-law she never met, and why is she apparently the only member of a Restorationist sect who possessed such a picture?  Joseph III lived until 1914 and the locket remained in the family—he knew it existed and, if he thought it depicted his father, he could have had the picture reproduced and published anytime he wanted.  Why didn’t he?
Looking at her photo in FamilySearch, Bertha Madison Smith has sort of pronounced lower jaw. almost puffy-ish lower cheeks and mouth, and drooping outside corners of the eyes that to my mind resemble the face of the man in the newly-discovered photo.  This is just a guess; but to my mind the man in the locket is more likely some family member of hers—perhaps her father Mads Madison (1813-1893).

I'm a collector.  I'm also a visual learner.  I also have studied the life of Joseph Smith in great detail.  I know what he was going through during this time in his life.  
I'm stoked that we finally have an image to put to the stories.
Praise to the Man!

We will see within the next few months.  As I already stated, I would mortgage my home and spend every cent to purchase the locket and image. 
I'd like to see what some of the Saints with skill in photoshop can do with the image. 
I'm fairly excited. 

This really is an amazing find. Hope it’s authentic 

https://religionnews.com/2022/07/21/mormon-founder-joseph-smiths-photo-discovered-by-descendant-after-nearly-180-years/
 
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/07/21/long-last-photo-mormon-founder/

Yes, agree fully. When you swim in one fishbowl only you begin to delude yourself. 
 
Nope. With the exception of the professional atheists like Dawkins and Mahr, the average atheist in America would protest in the streets if the government banned religion. 
 
The awful truth is that apathy is far more destructive to religious growth than the atheist who screams in rage at God. A growing amount of people simply don’t care about religion.