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The 15 Most Expensive Colleges and Universities in the U.S.
What is a degree worth to you? For some, that answer would be “quite a lot.” An average person who takes out federal loans winds up saddled with $37,338 of debt; private loans have a higher average debt of $54,921 per borrower. It’s no wonder some young adults...
11 Royal Code Names
The late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, famously used to call Queen Elizabeth II “Cabbage.” Princess Diana gave Prince William the nickname Wombat after a tour of Australia. When Prince Edward and the future Duchess of Edinburgh, Sophie Rhys-Jones, first began dating in the 1990s, Edward went by the name Richard when arranging their dates. And King Charles and Queen Camilla are popularly claimed to refer to one another as “Fred” and “Gladys” in honor of a long-running joke on Peter Sellers’s old comic radio serial, The Goon Show.
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