It’s a historical term. It doesn’t need a reason. The Maritime Provinces of Canada are defined as being New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Newfoundland has a lot of similarities to them but it is not a Maritime Province, by definition.
No.
Now you’re getting it.
No, see my post above.
The City of Washington ceased to exist in 1871. Before that, the District of Columbia encompassed three jurisdictions, the City of Washington, the City of Georgetown, and Washington Township. And before retrocession in 1846, it also included the City of Alexandria and the County of Alexandria (now called Arlington County).
Now, there is only one legal jurisdiction, the District of Columbia. All governmental bodies and services are in the name of the District of Columbia. There is no City of Washington, not even just in name only.
The District of Columbia government effectively acts kind of like a city government and kind of like a state government, but it is neither. It’s a unique “home-rule” entity whose government is subject to the authority of Congress.
Pretty much. Except for the southwest corner of Connecticut, Patriot fandom coincides almost exactly with New England. (And upstate New York certainly isn’t a part of it.)
It works pretty well in baseball, too. With the same exception for Connecticut, if you live in New England you’re a Red Sox fan.
That’s kind of a weird map. If you believe it, there are no Oakland fans in the Bay Area.
What is it a map of? Is it saying which areas (counties) have a majority of fans of a given team?
Well it’s out of date because it precedes the Rams’ departure from St. Louis.
But the methodology is also weird with these maps because the counties are colored according to the team that has the most Facebook (or Twitter) followers.
So on the baseball map, if I recall correctly, the Athletics, White Sox, and Mets have no counties, because they’re not No. 1 in any county.
No, full stop. There are only 8 members and William and Mary has never been one of them. “The Ivy League” is literally a sports conference for old, east-coast schools that didn’t want to offer sports scholarships. It is not an honorary term. They all tend to be strong academically but lots of other schools beat them in many ways. They also tend to be really bad at sports and that is one reason they formed their own conference. I went to Dartmouth which is like a combination university/country club but you certainly aren’t going to see many pro athletes coming from there. Only very rare people are talented enough to have both academic and sports abilities to make it at that level and academics is always the focus in the Ivy League.
That said, the hardest part of Ivy League schools is getting in. The classes aren’t especially difficult at Dartmouth and most people at Harvard graduate with honors. They aren’t going to let you flunk out once you get in as long as you put in some effort. Harvard has celebrities as students that miss countless classes and don’t have much time to study. That isn’t much of an issue. They really just want famous alumni and to add to their already incredible endowment.
William and Mary is one of the Colonial Colleges, the ones that predate 1776, along with Rutgers and everything in the actual Ivy League except for Cornell, which was founded in 1865.
“Colonial Colleges” is merely a term of honor, as no one would want to play football with William and Mary, even Columbia.
Yeah, right. Harvard just sucks and you can’t even get a good education there.
I know you are being sarcastic but you misrepresented what I said. Harvard certainly doesn’t suck but it isn’t the be-all, end-all of the American university system. I used to go onto campus every single work day when I worked next to it and MIT. Students actually have to work very hard at MIT to pass. Harvard, not so much.
Harvard is excellent at branding but not so great at actual education. It has more money than god but most of that doesn’t go towards undergraduate education. Most undergraduates never meet esteemed researchers or academics let alone get a chance to work with them personally.
What Harvard is good at because of the branding is attracting students that would have been successful anyway even if they dropped out of high school. All they are doing is a sophisticated version of a casino trick where the odds are heavily in the houses’s favor. If you select enough very talented students, some of them will pay off even if you didn’t teach them anything.
Harvard has a long list of astoundingly successful people including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg that dropped out to start their own businesses because the education wasn’t worth it it to them. It is all about the name recognition and not the actual education.
Harvard has ACCESS to learning. If a kid is motivated, he goes into Widener Library and puts his fingers on everything there is to know, and beyond thinking he could know.
He/She has ACCESS to some of the best professors in the country…if he takes their courses and interacts with them outside the lecture hall or seminar room, he can pick up marvelous things.
It MIGHT be possible to go through four undergrad years at Harvard as a complete Dunderhead, but you’d kinda have to WORK at it.
Well, for one, weren’t New York and Pennsylvania originally under the control of the Dutch?
So, you’re saying, “Oh, no, William and Mary won’t do”?
(I’ve been waiting for a setup line like that. :D)
No.
Not really. It has a mayor, but ultimately it’s governed by Congress. No other city is like that.
And the whole point of that rigorous selection process is to ensure you get kids who will take advantage of it. Someone tols me once that Harvard is a terrible olace for kids who want to find themselves. But if you know yourself, if you get excited about goals and work toward them, Harvard gives you the resources and companions you need to setand reach fantastic goals.
Take a Harvard freshman class and put them at Regional State and they’d srill do very well (though they’d drive everyone there crazy). But they wouldn’t do as well as they do at Harvard where they have the resources and freedom and pressure to be really ambitious in their goals.
And why shouldn’t they graduate with honors? Have you seen who they take?
There’s a lot of nonsense in that post, especially that part I underlined which is total nonsense. Any top, exclusive school is going to have a similar student body. Gates and Zuckerberg didn’t drop out because the education was shoddy. They dropped out because they had better things to do, and that almost certainly would have been true elsewhere.
I didn’t go to Harvard, but I studied in grad school with a lot of folks that went to Harvard as undergrads. My impression was that they had a very good, but different education than I got. We were inculcated with “the basics” whereas they had experiences more geared to specialized areas.
I agree with that because I had friends who wrecked themselves, physically and mentally, trying to get into Harvard. I never thought much of the reasoning behind it, or lack thereof, but I respect the will and the effort of those who did it. It’s an accomplishment.
A couple of them who graduated with liberal arts degrees have said that their time could probably have been better spent elsewhere. I have no idea how to evaluate this, but the sentiment is out there.
Please add Boise, Idaho to your list.
Wow, I legitimately did not know that Columbus was that big. I thought it was much smaller than Cleveland and Cincinnati. I’ve never been to any of them, of course.
Australia is the weird one where the capitals are also the largest cities.
Okay, I’m trying this without reading the thread.
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania
Northern Territory
West Australia
That one in the north-eastern part of the country. Cape Something?
Is Canberra in its own separate district?
