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Cirque du So-What

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6. Yep

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 8, 2020, 02:17 PM

Sep 2020

Transylvania means ‘across the woods’ in Latin. The school was founded in what was at the time a heavily forested region of western Virginia (later Kentucky).

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Yep Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #6

Ah! I see. And I did look it up and it's a real accredited university, however I have never smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #8

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