Battles That Changed History, Second Period, Friday 1/22

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"Alexandros aniketos," Steve said to open today's class. "Alexander the undefeatable. It's okay if you haven't heard of him, even if you’re from around here. He's known by a slightly different epithet now: ( Alexander the Great )

Study Hall | Friday

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Score! When Ronon arrived in the study hall with a healthy snack of carrots, peppers, and hummus, someone had left a gun magazine or three in the study hall. Obviously they knew what would keep Ronon sane while he waited for something interesting to happen.

Or someone interesting, Ronon wasn't picky.

Library [1-22]

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Dan was in the library bright and early, laptop in hand. He settled down behind the front desk and decided to re-watch last night's Tonight Show. Dan wondered if going back to 2007 over spring break and warning Conan of what was about to happen would turn into one of those butterfly effect things.

The Perfect Crime [Thursday, Period Five]

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"Afternoon kids," Rick said, passing a sheaf of notes around the room. "Today we'll be taking a quick look at the locked room mystery. Which is where a crime, usually a murder, has been commited, but the crime scene is such that it appears impossible for it actually to have taken place. Often this involves the murderer seeming to have vanished into thin air."

"While this doesn't fall under the heading of a perfect crime, since in order to have a locked room mystery, you need to know about a crime, but they are usually incredibly hard to solve, as you can see by the real life examples sometimes they're never solved, and often the resolution involves things being not quite as they appear on the surface."

He paused before continuing. "Now, we're going to read an example of a locked room mystery, Edgar Allen Poe's The Morgue Street Murders, which is commonly considered one of the first instances of the detective story and the locked room mystery in the English language," Rick said, then grimaced. "And, much as it pains me to say this of Poe, it may also be considered an early example of the ass-pull in detective fiction, as I doubt the stated solution would have occurred to the average reader from the clues given in the story. In any case, let's all just have a read through and discuss what you think of the mystery."

"Also, anyone who declares in subsequent classes that 'a monkey did it' will be lowering their final grade, not least because the noble orangutan is an ape."

[OOC: OCD up.]

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Business 102: Friday, Period 3, Class 3

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"This week," Jim said as the bell rang, "we're going to be talking about one of the most important things you can do for your sanity in an office: calling in sick. There are, of course, completely legitimate reasons to call in sick. Specifically, if you are sick. A bad cold, flu-like symptoms, a migraine that makes it tough to stand up, injuries.... All completely justifiable reasons to call in."

( Or, if you'd prefer, 'call out.' )