"Datesfat Chicks" wrote in message
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> news:82h356ll2j6bkjpb0ec9i55gpub3p8np92@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:21:26 -0500, Day Brown
>> wrote:
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>>>On 07/19/2010 10:59 AM, Zerkon wrote:
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/25usc3z
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>>>> This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA
>>>> . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley
>>>> Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, and reprinted by the Salina
>>>> Journal.
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> Some other thoughts:
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> http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp
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Snopes as a source? Who said they are an authority on anything?
Snopes is a guy and his wife, putting whatever spint they feel on
the questions, there is no "comittee" researching ANY questions
or anything else they claim. Just a guy and his wife.
The test is quite relative for the time given, and it would be a good
indication of what a high school student had been doing for four years.
US history, heavy on english, math skills needed for the time, I
do suspect it was a high school test, and still would be very relavent.
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