Reddit mentions of Replogle Explorer World Blue Ocean Globe, Desktop, 12" diameter, Up-to-Date Cartography, Raised Relief, Educational, perfect for Students of all ages

I'm talking about a basic fisher-price level elementary school globe, here: https://www.amazon.com/Explorer-World-Globe-Assorted-Colors/dp/B00000J6JX

Step 1 - buy a world globe

Step 2 - look at it everyday

Step 3 - resist the temptation to travel to a new place everyday

>globe.

Oh wow, ok great, thank you, got it! I purposely ordered escudo notes that had been used a lot, because I liked that they cleared contained some real "history" in the real world. Actually, if you're interested, I already also ordered a bunch of other currency as well - I had planned to order it along with those first banknotes, but wasn't sure if that would be too much, but after she and her two sisters and the nephew himself all were so surprised and thrilled with that, I went ahead and immediately ordered these as well when I got home:

3 of these Brazilian dollars for each of the 3 sisters, who have told me that the kid is so smart and loves to read - these I got in mint condition, because I simply preferred that for this one -

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ1NFgxNjAw/z/aBgAAOSwaNBUfFwY/$_57.JPG

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=brazil&_from=R40|R40|R40|R40|R40|R40&_osacat=3411&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xbrazil+100+cruzados&_nkw=brazil+100+cruzados&_sacat=3411

This coin, which depicts the Pope carrying a sculpture of the Virgin Mary as the patroness of Brazil -- one of the girls (the kid's mother) posted a picture of that figure on her Facebook back in October when it was the Brazilian holiday about it -

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjk2/z/MXoAAOSwEK9T~MlL/$_57.JPG

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=2014+1+DOLLAR+BRITISH+VIRGIN+ISLANDS&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X2014+1+DOLLAR+BRITISH+VIRGIN+ISLANDS+POPE&_nkw=2014+1+DOLLAR+BRITISH+VIRGIN+ISLANDS+POPE&_sacat=0

Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Aparecida

Then I ordered this coin the other day (just a couple bucks), which depicts Portugal's first Chief Cosmographer, Pedro Nunes -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Escudos-2000-Bi-metallic-PEDRO-NUNES-/111583904507?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item19faeb42fb

Info - and I may print out part of these two articles, and in this case, I'll just use Google's English translations, as corrected by me:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Nunes

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosm%C3%B3grafo-mor

And lastly, this globe (which I used to have) -

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000J6JX/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687522&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B008C4RX5G&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1RRMGR1V0KCAA2JKKZXV

I think it will be a really cool addition to their home, and the kid can learn geography from it. And yes, this is up-to-date and it includes the nation of South Sudan, which became a country in 2011. I plan to present the 2 preceding coins at the same time as the globe. First, I want to show those the two coins, side by side (like with the symbolic visual meaning of Christianity being brought to the world--these girls are very religious, at least in the sense that they talk about God's role in their lives very often), and then present the globe and place the coins against it, with the Nunes one where Portugal is, and the Aparecida one where Brazil is! As you can see, I like to give gifts that people can learn from and find some special meaning in. All the things are scheduled to be delivered by February 7, which is not too many days away, so I'm very excited about all this!