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Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, "not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since," says Thomas Carlyle, who called Albert "a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man." He is also called by later writers "the Handsome."[citation needed]

People who complain about there being too much European history don't really get European history. This stuff is as alien as any Chinaman, and it's easier to relate to because they're white and are now in sleek, safe countries.

Tina Fey? Pshaw, she's cute but a domestic goddess. Couldn't you imagine coming home to that every day? Our generation was really the last of when housewives were a thing. My dad was a rich doctor so my mom stayed home and, when we were older, taught classes or made soap or just did whatever the #### because she could. That would be an awesome life.