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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.  [/quote]

If you have any knowledge of English history it isn't weird at all [/quote]

Sure. I have a history degree and studied this period, but my family abroad are deeply confused by the name, and I had to give them a mini-history lecture. They're used to university names reflecting a city or region like University of Melbourne or University of Queensland.[/quote]

People from a commonwealth country should understand well. [/quote]

Not necessarily. We studied Elizabeth I and the Stuarts intensively, but no-one before QEI, and no-one after James II. The other history we studied included the origins of WWI and WWII, the American civil rights movement, Indonesian independence, nationalism, the development of a social welfare system and the French Revolution. I know more about Brown vs the Board of Education than I do about George III.We studied discrete periods of history, not timelines like my kids here did.[/quote]

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