<p>well hey, im in israel and i knew that... lol:)</p>
<p>Haha I was just about to post and ask that Ernie. But then I decided that I had probably imagined the fact that you were in Israel and make a fool out of myself but asking.</p>
<p>But nice job, Ernie. Way to be in-tune with the center of the world. ;)</p>
<p>i agree that the us is the center of the world. and whoever says otherwise is in the axis of evil or whatever theyre calling it nowadays...:)</p>
<p>Well at least I know about him now. Some (make that most) of my friends won't ever know about him...</p>
<p>We had an interesting conversation in my Geography class (don't worry, nothing to do with geography). We were learning something about political demographics or something like that, and the teacher mentioned that every great empire of the world eventually collapsed. He seems like quite the conspiracy theorist...</p>
<p>then they will <em>gasp</em> die without ever knowing who <em>gasp again</em> alexander hamilton was... omg omg omg... how can anyone even survive like that? lollllll:)</p>
<p>ha! well i wouldnt call america an "empire." but it is definately the most important country in the world. in a good way, for the most part, i think... but i agree with your teacher that one day america will a lot of its power. its even starting to happen now...</p>
<p>lol.. We'll just have to wait and see...</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Who is Alexander Hamilton?<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Get a hold of a US ten dollar bill -- Alexander Hamilton's picture is on it.</p>
<p>His life and public service ended prematurely when was killed by the villainous Princeton alum Aaron Burr.</p>
<p>Yeah...they usually don't use US ten dollar bills in Canada. I'm pretty sure of that. So it's not that big of a deal that he didn't know who Alexander Hamilton was. Maybe you weren't meaning to sound harsh about that, but it kind of came across that way.</p>
<p>^^Sorry. No harshness intended. I was just telling our Canadian friend how he might see or might have already seen a picture of Alexander Hamilton.</p>
<p>Actually, nearly all Americans can tell you whose picture is on the one, five, twenty and hundred dollar bills, but the two, ten, and fifty dollar bills often stump them. I wouldn't necessarily expect a Canadian to know any of them.</p>
<p>I'm sure that I could ask you who is on the $50 Canadian bill, and you wouldn't know. As a matter of fact, neither would I. :P I just don't pay attention to that stuff. We have $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, and $1000 (very rare, as you might imagine) bills. We used to have $1 and $2 bills, but they were replaced by coins. </p>
<p>American money is accepted in all Canadian stores. They usually add 20% of the amount to convert it to Canadian money.</p>
<p>The guy on the 10 dollar bill...as in "we're like Aaron Burr, the way we dropping Hamiltons" --Lazy Sunday.</p>
<p>Hope that stirrs your memory.</p>
<p>I'd say that for a school that I have a slim chance of getting into, like Yale or something. You never know :P</p>
<p>i don't know who's on our bills.</p>
<p>and i don't understand the time magazine joke =/. is there something that happened recently that i should know about to get it? =/</p>
<p>The time magazine person of you year is YOU. (Hence everybody could use it as an award/achievement.)</p>
<p>ohhhhhhhhhhh.... now i get it. (i was also confused) lol</p>
<p>Oops, typo. I meant to say "the person of the year is YOU." Sorry for any confusion.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think the whole 'YOU' thing is just a ploy to sell more magazines.</p>
<p>agreed. and also a cop out--they probably just couldn't decide who to choose and so took the easy way out.</p>