O my Canada, O my Newfoundland!

[steepholm]

Isn't it disconcerting when you find, at an advanced age, that you've been ignorant of a really basic fact in a subject about which you're supposedly reasonably well informed? I like geography and history, and if North America isn't exactly my area of special knowledge I'd still have expected to have heard that Newfoundland was, within living memory, an independent country. But until I happened to read it today, I had no idea.

Was I alone?

[Poll #1855055]

Have you had any similar ignorance depth-charges go off recently?

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I had no about this. But another depth-charge, as you say, that went off in my face recently was the revelation that the Ostra Post-card imprint was owned by the Biederer brothers.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

the revelation that the Ostra Post-card imprint was owned by the Biederer brothers

News to me too.