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Valka D'Ur said:
It isn't. Education is a provincial responsibility, and as long as the teachers put in something about Canadian history, I guess they can tick the box and call it done. It sounds to me like Synsensa had an incompetent teacher, if that's all that was offered.
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More of an incompetent system, but you're right. My school was an outlier, I think. Even though I grew up an hour and a half away from Toronto, the county was highly inaccessible with a very low population. My high school, for example, serviced 8-12 towns and had less than a thousand students total. During the winter, the highway to the city would be closed a lot of the time. 90% of the people I grew up with are still there. Most people don't leave, and most of them go on to work in basic childcare or in the trades.

We didn't do algebra until grade 9. I won my school's French award by simply knowing basic grammar. English class was mostly watching movies and reading plays out loud. So on and so forth. It was not an ideal education experience. :lol: Most notably, if you weren't interested in any trades, there weren't enough classes to graduate high school. You'd have to take an engine course or a woodworking course, and you'd probably need to take several due to scheduling.
 
Synsensa said:
More of an incompetent system, but you're right. My school was an outlier, I think. Even though I grew up an hour and a half away from Toronto, the county was highly inaccessible with a very low population. My high school, for example, serviced 8-12 towns and had less than a thousand students total. During the winter, the highway to the city would be closed a lot of the time. 90% of the people I grew up with are still there. Most people don't leave, and most of them go on to work in basic childcare or in the trades.

We didn't do algebra until grade 9. I won my school's French award by simply knowing basic grammar. English class was mostly watching movies and reading plays out loud. So on and so forth. It was not an ideal education experience. :lol: Most notably, if you weren't interested in any trades, there weren't enough classes to graduate high school. You'd have to take an engine course or a woodworking course, and you'd probably need to take several due to scheduling.
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Two of my elementary school years were spent in city schools. The rest, plus all of junior high, were spent at a county school with an excellent curriculum and high standards. I did Grades 2 and 3 in the same year, and later on they contacted my dad about wanting to promote me from Grade 7 directly to 9 (I wouldn't have minded not doing parts of Grade 8, but I loved the science class that year, as there was an astronomy unit and that's the year I spent many hours in the library reading astronomy books and learning about stellar evolution). My dad said no to that, since I was already a year younger than my classmates. If he'd said yes, I would have ended up graduating Grade 12 at 15 instead of 16.
 
Dachs said:
It was placed quite high, on the north anta of the pronaos.

I don't think that escaping attention was the plan, though. The inscription itself probably dates to 334 BC, but we're not sure, and we don't know if it was placed on the anta of the temple at the time of its inscription. Alexander may very well have had it done that way (or one of his agents, such as Alkimachos or Antigonos, who took the submissions of the Ionian cities that Alexander didn't visit) for that reason, but it's impossible to say definitively.

I think that the argument about sacrilege is hard to substantiate. Alexander's own father, for example, built the Philippeion at Olympia. Most historians seem to believe that Alexander himself thought he was a god from a relatively early age. I suppose it's possible that he or his agent placed the inscription that way for that reason, but it would be a little surprising to me.

We do know that from ~285 BC onward, the Alexander Inscription was on the anta along with several other edicts, inscriptions, and other legal data concerning the polis of Priene and its chora. As Sherwin-White argued several decades ago, the anta of the temple of Athene Polias served as a sort of public archive for Priene in its disputes over the precise boundaries of its chora and the identity of those persons it could tax. Our date of ~285 comes from the fact that it was placed there alongside documents from both Alexander and Lysimachos, and that we are fairly certain that all documents from Alexander and Lysimachos were placed there at about the same time (even though they were composed at different times).

The archive was clearly not meant to escape casual attention; quite the opposite.

As a side note, what's left of the temple of Athene Polias at Priene is rather a mess, and it's remarkable that the epigraphers have been able to figure out as much as they have about it. I only remember five columns still standing, and those were re-erected in the 1960s. The view of the Menderes valley from the temple site is absolutely gorgeous, though.
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Thank you! So phony tony newcastle lied to me. :/ Of course i know of the philippeion with the statues of philip's family. But tony newcastle claimed that alex probably didnt know of the move of the epigraph and thus was tricked by the people of priene.
Tony newcastle sucks :shake:
 
TIL the same guy who played Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace voiced the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3.
 
Lexicus said:
TIL the same guy who played Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace voiced the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3.
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Terrence Stamp? I think he was also the motivational speaker in Yes Man. Undoubtedly this is the heretics' doing!
 
Yep, that's the guy. Kinda sad because Truth's voice in Halo 2 was imo vastly superior.
 
TIL that there is a place called King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Seems kind of a like a strange name to me.
 
Here in Nova Scotia, we have Pictou. Which sounds perfectly normal, except that it means 'fart.' (Rather fitting, as it has a rather stinky pulp mill.)
 
^There's no place like No Place ! God bless No Place ! No place , know how ! :D He was a Yes Man from No Place ! . Find Your place at No Place ! ....

Sounds like a great place ! :lol:

If one cannot kill what already not lives ..... How can one draw a map of No Place :hmm:
 
The_J said:
There's a neighbourhood (or whatever) called "pig farm" in Acra, Ghana.
While I can see the history there...maybe someone should have renamed it...
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I'm sure there's thousands of places with that same name in different languages. don't see why you would rename it though, literally nothing wrong with pig farming. you eat pig, no? many people in Germany are called "Bauer" or "Metzger" and no one bats an eye.
 
Morty said:
I still like the name of the village up the road from me - No Place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Place
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obviously where this dude is from
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