Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
Letters and Numbers is pretty popular on SBS. It's fun to watch if there's nothing else on.
wait, I don't know about this -what is it? when is it on? how long has it been on? Is there an SBS cultural institution I'm not aware of? what??!?
I haven't watched it in quite a while because I'm a flash cunt with Foxtel, so I don't know. It's basically countdown, though.
also what they need to do with australian history is contextualize it as part of the history of south-east asia
This is such a great idea that I can't believe that I've never come even close to thinking about it.
nobody ever thinks about australia in those terms because they don't fucking teach it
I think Georgia was the largest colony with prisoners. Or at least debtors.
This intrigued me, because I also had an impression that Georgia was specifically targeted as a place for penal transportation for the Crown. Did some quick research and it seems that actually Georgia was originally a completely volunteer-only colony, and in fact slavery wasn't permitted there for a couple decades (after it was demonstrated that they needed way more numbers to be successful/profitable). Georgia was founded largely as a buffer colony since Florida was owned by Spain.
Anyway! I agree that the popular opinion was that Britain did not do a whole lot of penal transportation to the American colonies, and it turns out that I thought that largely because such a thing was actively written out of the historical narrative shortly after the American Revolution.
I found this article, which is part of a series on penal transportation in America, and it suggests that up until the Revolution around nine percent of all immigrants to the Colonies were there because they'd been sentenced to be. New England in general, and Virginia in particular were favorite recipients of convicts. Virginia makes sense of course, it being the largest and perceived to be the most loyal of all the Colonies.
Other fun facts: about 75% of people living in the Colonies up until the revolution were there against their will/sans liberty. Nearly half were slaves, nearly 20% indentured servants, the afore-mentioned individuals sentenced to transportation....
Basically the Patriots that American students are taught to revere so highly were an absurd minority.
I'm not sure how you would call the iran-contra situation, regardless of the hostage situation, anything but treason. that's what selling weapons to enemies of the US is.
Countdown was never the same after Richard Whitely died.
Also, five years of history:
1 - Rome, 1066, Norman invasion of Ireland
2 - Glossing over of Plantagenet kings, Tudor Britain and the Reformation
3 - Irish Uprising of 1641, Cromwell's Irish Campaign, 1688-1690, the Famine, the Home Rule movement.
4 - Ireland in the 20th Century, Easter Rising, War of Independence, Civil War, the Troubles. Also, History of Medicine.
5 - Germany 1919-1945
I think my high school had two electives, in different years, which would cover WW2 for each full year, in addition to covering it in our regular history class.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I remember learning about WWII in primary school. I got a really good mark for my drawing of a sad refugee kid with his gas mask hanging around his neck.
Secondary school was more about WWI I think. I remember trenchfoot and mustard gas and we took a trip to Belgium.
Also Romans, Egyptians, pioneers in the American west, Horatio Nelson, medieval farming and the feudal system, the fire of London and Black Death, shitloads about the Victorians, slavery, and how brilliant/awful the British empire was. I liked history a lot.
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Halos Nach TariffCan you blame me?I'm too famous.Registered Userregular
Come to think of it I do remember doing some stuff on the Industrial Revolution too which was slightly more interesting than WWII.
I never took History for GCSE mind so I probably missed a lot of stuff there.
And of course now I'm surrounded by History graduates which makes me feel like a right idiot half the time.
Come to think of it I do remember doing some stuff on the Industrial Revolution too which was slightly more interesting than WWII.
I never took History for GCSE mind so I probably missed a lot of stuff there.
And of course now I'm surrounded by History graduates which makes me feel like a right idiot half the time.
I really enjoyed Industrial Revolution too!
I've been learning about the history of landscape architecture too, its really interesting! Did you know that Central Park was an imitation of the first London park built for the public to improve social conditions during the industrial revolution? Now you do!
yeah, but it was nice being made to look like a conspiracy nut over something that is a historical fact.
Jars on
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Oh yeah I just remembered we did do loads of WWII in secondary school. Because in primary school we covered the Blitz and evacuations and stuff. But they left the holocaust until like year 9. Which was probably a sensible idea as it was disturbing enough at that age.
I also had a morbid love for learning about Victorian medical science. Amputations without anaesthesia! Dissecting pigs! No knowledge of sterile technique! Operations on screaming patients in front of an audience! Lovely stuff.
To be fair, if you're a European knowing about Rome is pretty crucial to the understanding of your entire culture.
rome literally affected every culture, except for MAYBE pacific islands, in some capacity
And yet we tend to not learn anything about the various civilizations inhabiting Persia, despite their cultural influence on everything from philosophy to statescraft to religion..
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Growing up in Virginia it was all about the colonies as a kid, Jamestown in particular. I swear we spent at least six weeks each year from kindergarten to 5th grade on Jamestown.
What always baffled me was the complete lack of focus on post-WWII. I never once had a middle or high school class progress beyond Korea and Vietnam.
"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
To be fair, if you're a European knowing about Rome is pretty crucial to the understanding of your entire culture.
rome literally affected every culture, except for MAYBE pacific islands, in some capacity
And yet we tend to not learn anything about the various civilizations inhabiting Persia, despite their cultural influence on everything from philosophy to statescraft to religion..
But they're brown, they didn't actually do anything important
To be fair, if you're a European knowing about Rome is pretty crucial to the understanding of your entire culture.
rome literally affected every culture, except for MAYBE pacific islands, in some capacity
And yet we tend to not learn anything about the various civilizations inhabiting Persia, despite their cultural influence on everything from philosophy to statescraft to religion..
But they're brown, they didn't actually do anything important
Brown and not christian
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
'ya ya go texas let's steal the land from the dirty mexicans and celebrate our victory stealing shit from them ya! it's like the american revolution in texas hella ya 'merica!'
There is a conspiracy theory which alleges that before he was elected, Reagan plotted with the Iranians to delay releasing hostages until after the election.
The hostages were released shortly after Reagan was inaugurated.
The conspiracy theory then alleges they the Iran-Contra affair was, in part, payback for Iran's cooperation with the "plot."
no, a different set of American hostages being held in Lebanon were the actual object of the Iran-Contra deal, which you need not believe had anything to do with the Iranian hostage crisis in order to understand that it was treason as described in the Constitution
although a discreet "just hang on and a new POTUS can give you a better deal" message to the Iranians during the election wouldn't have been that far out of character for his administration
The Black HunterThe key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered Userregular
I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA
Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting
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The Black HunterThe key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered Userregular
I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA
Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting
I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.
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Satans..... hints.....
I'm ok with that.
This intrigued me, because I also had an impression that Georgia was specifically targeted as a place for penal transportation for the Crown. Did some quick research and it seems that actually Georgia was originally a completely volunteer-only colony, and in fact slavery wasn't permitted there for a couple decades (after it was demonstrated that they needed way more numbers to be successful/profitable). Georgia was founded largely as a buffer colony since Florida was owned by Spain.
Anyway! I agree that the popular opinion was that Britain did not do a whole lot of penal transportation to the American colonies, and it turns out that I thought that largely because such a thing was actively written out of the historical narrative shortly after the American Revolution.
I found this article, which is part of a series on penal transportation in America, and it suggests that up until the Revolution around nine percent of all immigrants to the Colonies were there because they'd been sentenced to be. New England in general, and Virginia in particular were favorite recipients of convicts. Virginia makes sense of course, it being the largest and perceived to be the most loyal of all the Colonies.
Other fun facts: about 75% of people living in the Colonies up until the revolution were there against their will/sans liberty. Nearly half were slaves, nearly 20% indentured servants, the afore-mentioned individuals sentenced to transportation....
Basically the Patriots that American students are taught to revere so highly were an absurd minority.
You totes can!
Just gotta find one that died, before anyone knows they died.
Also, five years of history:
1 - Rome, 1066, Norman invasion of Ireland
2 - Glossing over of Plantagenet kings, Tudor Britain and the Reformation
3 - Irish Uprising of 1641, Cromwell's Irish Campaign, 1688-1690, the Famine, the Home Rule movement.
4 - Ireland in the 20th Century, Easter Rising, War of Independence, Civil War, the Troubles. Also, History of Medicine.
5 - Germany 1919-1945
So much world war two.
Secondary school was more about WWI I think. I remember trenchfoot and mustard gas and we took a trip to Belgium.
Also Romans, Egyptians, pioneers in the American west, Horatio Nelson, medieval farming and the feudal system, the fire of London and Black Death, shitloads about the Victorians, slavery, and how brilliant/awful the British empire was. I liked history a lot.
I never took History for GCSE mind so I probably missed a lot of stuff there.
And of course now I'm surrounded by History graduates which makes me feel like a right idiot half the time.
Pilgrims
Revolutionary War
Civil War
Repeat every single year
Tenth grade on up turned into "Here is a list of all the shitty things America did enjoy"
I really enjoyed Industrial Revolution too!
I've been learning about the history of landscape architecture too, its really interesting! Did you know that Central Park was an imitation of the first London park built for the public to improve social conditions during the industrial revolution? Now you do!
This might have happened
I also had a morbid love for learning about Victorian medical science. Amputations without anaesthesia! Dissecting pigs! No knowledge of sterile technique! Operations on screaming patients in front of an audience! Lovely stuff.
This was every year for all 13 years of my state sponsored education
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rome literally affected every culture, except for MAYBE pacific islands, in some capacity
And yet we tend to not learn anything about the various civilizations inhabiting Persia, despite their cultural influence on everything from philosophy to statescraft to religion..
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
What always baffled me was the complete lack of focus on post-WWII. I never once had a middle or high school class progress beyond Korea and Vietnam.
But they're brown, they didn't actually do anything important
Brown and not christian
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
And neither are Native Americans 'red' but here we are.
Soooooooooooo boring
How many months were spent talking about the musical?
'ya ya go texas let's steal the land from the dirty mexicans and celebrate our victory stealing shit from them ya! it's like the american revolution in texas hella ya 'merica!'
no, a different set of American hostages being held in Lebanon were the actual object of the Iran-Contra deal, which you need not believe had anything to do with the Iranian hostage crisis in order to understand that it was treason as described in the Constitution
although a discreet "just hang on and a new POTUS can give you a better deal" message to the Iranians during the election wouldn't have been that far out of character for his administration
Yeah and the Giant Tea Kettle now marks a Starbucks, but what can ya do? I miss Boston quite a bit sometimes.
Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting
I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.