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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Critias on November 16, 2012, 02:23:56 AM

Title: Marauders in real-life history exam
Post by: Critias on November 16, 2012, 02:23:56 AM

I thought you guys would get a kick out of this article:  http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html (http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html)

Long story short, a VCE exam for 12th graders used an...interesting...image of the Russian Revolution:  one with a Marauder rampaging in the background of Kochergin's "Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917."

It's a pretty awesome pic.   ;D

Title: Re: Marauders in real-life history exam
Post by: Darrian Wolffe on November 16, 2012, 02:50:40 AM

And it's clearly completely made up.

Every student of the Russian revolution knows that Kerensky drove an Atlas.

Title: Re: Marauders in real-life history exam
Post by: phlop on November 16, 2012, 06:55:21 AM

Yeah, it has been getting a lot of attention on BT forum. Nice to hear from you.

Title: Re: Marauders in real-life history exam
Post by: Critias on November 16, 2012, 01:47:45 PM

Quote from: phlop on November 16, 2012, 06:55:21 AM

Yeah, it has been getting a lot of attention on BT forum. Nice to hear from you.

I just heard about it yesterday from a teacher friend of mine, and immediately thought of you guys.   ;D  I should'a known other Battletech fans would've been all over it.

Title: Re: Marauders in real-life history exam
Post by: ItsTehPope on November 16, 2012, 07:11:06 PM

Quote from: Darrian Wolffe on November 16, 2012, 02:50:40 AM

And it's clearly completely made up.

Every student of the Russian revolution knows that Kerensky drove an Atlas.

He drove an Orion.  Yeesh, its bad when I correct you.