ODDBALL: Score One for Battletech!

It turns out the Russian revolution had some unexpected help… Tzar Nicholas II never saw it coming…

You know how they used to get all up in arms about using Wikipedia for reference instead of good old fashioned encyclopedias?

Well the other thing you shouldn’t do is grab images willy-nilly from the internet for use in formal exams…

Because this happens…

via Theage.com

“One hundred and thirty confused VCE history students had their scores adjusted after an artwork featuring a mysterious robot who appeared to be assisting socialist revolutionaries in 1917 was accidentally used in last year’s exam.

The VCE exam body apologised after the doctored version of Storming of the Winter Palace by Nikolai Kochergin formed part of a question about the Russian Revolution in the History: Revolutions exam.

The altered image had been sourced from the internet.”

~Hmm, maybe that’s why Rasputin was killed – so he couldn’t use his magic to stop those twin PPCs! 

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.