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Don’t Know Much About Geography

August 19, 2013

by Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services In Sam Cooke’s classic 1959 hit “Wonderful World,” the lyrics downplayed formal learning with lines like, “Don’t know much about history … Don’t know much about geography.” Share This

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