As we all know, amongst all of the swordsmen in the world there are a handful of elite masters of the discipline. Known as 'Blademasters' they can be recognized by a heron on their blade or scabbard. Among the most famous of these masters are Lan Mandragoran and Tam Al'Tor. But how exactly does someone become recognized as a blademaster? Is there some kind of council that keeps a record of who has earned the title? And is there any safeguard against impersonators claiming the title unjustly?

Is there any proof that this meeting actually occurred, or is this more Chariots of the Gods hogwash that has no basis in reality?

I was never really good with history. I'm absolutely awful at remembering who did what during what time and never even really had a good in-depth idea of common world events. that being said! I have a group presentation on the class in reference to the decade of the 1960's. My portion of the project is in regards to World News and Events that happened around the world throughout the entire decade of the 1960's. I need to mainly talk about the major events which may have taken place and provide the significance of each major event and its importance. I'm already covering some general events which had taken place such as JFK Presidency/assassination, MLK Jr., Civil Rights Act, and Cuban Missile Crisis, etc... but just a general idea of what I can say about these things and any additional things which took place during the 1960's would be great help! I have to fill about 5 minutes of talking and history is just not a strong point for me. =/ also any links or additional information would be so much help!

Thanks for your help!

It seems kind of unthinkable that they were able to do so, since the worm metamorphosis would have gone on for quite some years before Ghanima would be old enough to carry a child.

Or is it just Atreides propaganda?

This has been on my mind the last few hours. I'd rather yell Blood for the Blood God than For the Emperor after all.

Who was the cat owner ?

Title says it all.

Or is Mandred just a creation of post- Magnusian chroniclers attempting to justify a united empire by appealing to a mythic past?

I am referring of course, to Captain Picard aka Locutus of Borg. Was he given a pass because of his record, or was there something more sinister at work here?

I won't feel truly embiggened until I get some answers.

There can't really be ghosts if they all disappeared, now can they?

I'm a design student working on a project for visualizing data. We are allowed to work with a data set of our choice. I'd like to chart Native population in the US throughout history, but I haven't had much luck finding the data. Does anyone have a good resource?

As someone who is deeply passionate about his Incubator heritage, it's something I must know. If I don't know, have a long talk with your daughters.

I couldn't find any sources for this in my research. Perhaps you fine chaps could help.

It seems like its remote location on the northern corner of Essos would put it far from main trade routes between the continents and hinder its influence, and yet it is the most prosperous and powerful of the Free Cities. How did this happen?

It just seems so much at odds with his other character traits, especially after the many millennia of peaceful rule.

EDIT: It seems I need to clarify things a bit.

I'm not asking about how the developers of the Civilization games managed to come up with a work-around for this very strange behaviour of real-life Gandhi (in fact the mods have already removed two three four five inappropriate answers).

I'm wondering about the actual leader of the Indian civilization.

Also, Civilopedia is not an acceptable source, people... you know the rules of this sub.