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Don't Know Much About History
December 14, 2005 - 8:01 p.m.

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T'was the night before the church history exam and all through the GTA,
Not a student was sleeping, because they all wanted a history A.

Yeah, so poetry isn't my strong suit. The good news is that I won't have to write this exam in iambic pentameter. The bad news is that I will have to write it.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to remember which Pope Leo did what? And which Benedict? And what scheming Italian family placed what puppet pope on the throne? And what Saxon king converted when, and what his Christian wife's name was? And what monk castigated who? (Though when an angry monk writes a scathing letter, it's usually Bernard.) And who were Aidan, Alcuin and Ansgar? And how on earth am I going to keep them all straight? And why? And for how long?

AAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!

Thank you. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

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