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Clonus

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  1. I wonder whether Andersen was mocking the upper class or engaging in self-parody. His specialty after all, was writing girls who endured horrible torture (frequently leading up to their death) and then there's this impossibly delicate princess who can't sleep due to a degree of discomfort so slight as being impossible for a human to detect. Then again he could have just objected on "suffering is virtuous" grounds to the original version of the story where the "princess" actually is an imposter, but a kind one who manages to find allies who give her the answers to the queen's tests.
  2. About migration and human rights | OHCHR
  3. There was a school in India that put up pictures of famous scientists to inspire its students.
  4. The president could hand pick the members of a unit for their willingness to do such things for him. I don't believe it's credible that the court will increase the president's already considerable protection from legal consequences for anything he does, but a president who really had total immunity for anything marginally related to governance could do such things.
  5. I'm suspicious. How likely is it that no two states have the same top search terms? Cartholicism.
  6. That was one of two references to Macbeth in TLOTR. You see in Macbeth, the witches make two prophecies about Macbeth, that he shall not be defeated until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him. MacDuff later orders his men while marching through Birnam Wood to cut wood from the trees to make torches which they then bear on their night attack on Dunsinane. Burning wood. Shakespeare you card. You hack. Anyway this is the reason why the Ents exist, so they could literally make a forest march on Saruman's tower. The second one was the prediction that no man of woman born can slay Macbeth. Turns out that Macduff's mother died in child-birth so he was cut out of her ala the myth about Julius Caesar who gave his name to the Caesarian section. That one really pissed off Tolkien, who realized that if you were going to engage in that kind of word play there were better options like having a nonhuman or a woman kill the target of the prophecy. He went with both, a woman and a nonhuman working together to kill the target. Here's the thing though, it's not that women or hobbits were the Witch King's kryptonite. It's just that he happened to be predestined to die under that particular circumstance.
  7. Look, that's rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
  8. They quickly realized they were making a terrible mistake so there probably wasn't time for anyone to offer those relatively inoffensive options.
  9. It always amuses me when a reincarnator walks into a room filled with nothing but blonde people, tosses her bright red hair and thinks "Good thing I'm an unimportant side character and not the center of attention."
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