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Oh, and there was also King Charles VI, a.k.a. “Charles the Mad”, who often forgot his own name, insisted he was not king, and refused to bathe or change clothes for five months straight. He also thought at times that he was made of glass, and was scares people would bump into him. He also had a near death expirienced in a freak masquerade ball…[Read more]

There also was a Portuguese prince who fell in love with a noblewoman. His father, viewing her as a political threat, had her brutally assassinated while the prince was away. When the prince inherited the couple years later, posthumously made her his queen.  According to legend (but not history), He dug up her grave, had her dressed in royal…[Read more]

There was a “German” (I don’t think they where called that yet) King in the early middle ages who decided that his claim to the throne was based on him being a dependent of a mythical King who’s father was a sea dragon (a Quinotaur). The only people who could rule where from this lineage, and the sign of that was that they. . . had long…[Read more]

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Is that different? And I think so…

Colleges focus on undergraduate degrees (Associates and sometimes Bachelor) and certificates. Universities typically offer all of those plus Graduate degrees (Masters and PH.Ds).

College are smaller, so smaller class sizes (20 to 30 student), more personalized attention, a tighter-knit e…[Read more]

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*Gasp*

I have fans! I have fans that will stalk me!!! Must hire an entourage of security guards!!!! Must buy a purple sequin suit!!!!!

👮😎👮

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They have a 20% acceptance rate though.😭😭😭

I may end up taking a gap year and doing the same so I can earn some money and also more credits to hopefully increase my chances at a scholarship.

It sounds like you are going to a university?

Something you may want to consider, check and see if there are any community colleges around you.…[Read more]

Also, if someone/an office is really helpful, let them know that you are appreciative. They will likely be of help in the future, and doing something that makes you stand out (they do likely deal with hundreds of students) and makes them like you can be very beneficial if you have a problem down the road. (We remember and protect those who brought…[Read more]

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I work at (and am writing this from) the front desk of a college’s registrar’s office (The unofficial helpdesk of the college). What Elishavet and Koshka is pretty dead on.

I will add first of all that. . . it’s rather confusing. 🤣

We (College Admission and Registrar folks) expect students to know very little about the process…[Read more]

A character who blocks/fills a hole/breech with themself.  Over by dead body. You will have to go through me.

Does anybody have any characters like this? 😎

“Standing in the gap”

What a beautiful and evocative metaphor!

​”O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this little earth that covers my body.”

— Inscription on the Tomb of Cyrus the Great (c. 530 BCE)

Onnendel: “Mountain!?” Looks slightly bummed, then suddenly grins “I can only imagine 🎶. . .”

Randal: Clears throat “That is Silver Mountain. A hundred and thirty two years ago, four kings met at the top to form the Confederation of the Silver Swords . . .

Travenor: “That means we are approximately a quarter of the way to our destination…[Read more]

1) “in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.”

2) “It will be rather a bore, I expect. Love and marriage, and all that sort of thing, is rather a necessary nuisance in its way.”

3) “Blistering barnacles!”

4) “Be off with you, or I’ll blow up the barricade!”

5) “Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?”

6) If you tell stories, you…[Read more]

Welp, I know some of them.

2) Edmund from Prince Caspian

6) One of the Feechiefolk from The Secret of the Swamp King

9) Morley the cooper from Sir Kendrick and the Castle of Bel Lione

10) Screwtape from The Screwtape Letters

Testing Testing

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