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...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

OMG. "Christ" is right.

from when I was four

For

cahn, Heinrich at 4 = 1730, the year of the escape attempt.

Bayreuth went to crazy Uncle Christian, who‘d shot his wife‘s hot page.

Had forgotten that, so thank you for the reminder!

From:

cahn

ahahahaha, thank you for as always filling in my date-challenged self!! I... would not have gotten that on my own, though it seems kinda obvious now.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

I will try to remember to fill you in on things like dates and Peter III as Elisabeth's successor, things you will get when prompted but not necessarily on your own. I may not always be quite sure which instances those are, but I will try, because honestly, the best way to learn is not from forced memorization, but from encountering the same information in multiple contexts, through repetition.

Personal tangent:, I finally recently realized how much of my success in school, though definitely aided by having a good memory, came from studying the material on my own, outside the assigned lesson plans, because I got the repetition when the other students were having to rely on forced memorization. Ugh, why is our pedagogical system so bad? (I have actual thoughts on this for my blog, and for trying to re-master Latin and Greek more efficiently this time, which will all have to wait.)

From:

cahn

Hee, when it comes to dates (well, really everything, but particularly dates), you can pretty much always assume repetition is necessary (although I think I may finally have had the year of Katte's death drummed into me, at least :P )