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"happy birthday, pygmy!"

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zulu: halala ngosuku lokuzalwa  elibhekwa njengabaThwa ! esperanto: feliĉan naskiĝtagon,  nana !   dutch: gelukkige verjaardag,  dwerg ! norwegian: gratulerer med dagen  pygmé !  danish: tillykke med fødselsdagen,  pygmæ ! finnish: hyvää syntymäpäivää,  kääpiö ! czech: všechno nejlepší k narozeninám, trpaslík ! lol the primary definition of  trpaslík  is 'gnome' casteshano: feliz cumpleaños,  enano ! galician: feliz aniversario,  pigmeo ! catalán: feliç aniversari,  pigmea ! basque: zoriontsu urtebetetzea  pygmy ! maltese: għeluq sninha,  pigmew ! corsican: TANTI AUGURI,*  pygmy !  *the caps are not my doing, it's exactly what google translate spat out. so, yeah, WISHING YOU AN AUSPICIOUS SESSION WITH YOUR AUGUR, pygmy! albanian: gëzuar ditëlindjen,  xhuxh ! (looks like it would sound like someone sneezing?) macedonian: среќен роден...

Albanipride?

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1. the background really looks like Scarsdale High School 2. his current profile picture 3. "how is the internship going?"  --> The 40-Year-Old Intern 4. the umbrella looks to be defying basic physics

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Brave as a Fairy: Albanian Mythology

Prende was a goddess of love in the Albanian folklore. She was the wife of Perendi and referred to in Albanian legends aszoja e bukuris ("the queen of beauty"), while her sacred day was Friday. When Albania became Christianized in the early Middle Ages, Prende was identified by the Catholic Church as Saint Anne, mother of Virgin Mary Albanian: Shënepremte or Prende, known in Gheg dialect as Prenne or Petka. The zana e malit is an Albanian mythological creature (Albanian: Zane or Zëre in southern Albania) ("fairy of the mountain" in English), zana (as a definite noun), or zanë (plural) of pre-Roman Paleo-Balkan origin. Its etymology is related to Latin Diana its also simil ar to the Bardha. The Zana are thought to have observed the speeches at theLeague of Prizren at 1878.   In Northern Albania and  Kosovo   every mountain was said to have its own zana, who appeared as a fair maiden found bathing naked in mountain streams .  The zana is believ...

truly, madly, deeply

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For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor's degree in classics. As a Columbia employee, he didn't have to pay for the classes he took. His favorite subject was the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca, the janitor said during a break from his work at Lerner Hall, the student union building he cleans. "I love Seneca's letters because they're written in the spirit in which I was educated in my family — not to look for fame and fortune, but to have a simple, honest, honorable life," he said. His graduation with honors capped a dozen years of studies, including readings in ancient Latin and Greek. An ethnic Albanian and Roman Catholic, he left his family farm in the tiny village of Donja Klezna outside th...

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So, I really wanted to see A Separation, but I just read about this movie and am thinking it might be 100% perfect to watch. Then again, I'm having trouble deciding if that's based on irony or true desire. http://www.fandango.com/theforgivenessofblood_147913/movieoverview