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The royal nicknames come from the Wikipedia List of nicknames of European royalty and nobility that gave me the idea for the project earlier this year. I wrote some scripts to strip out the names and take a guess at the "good" ones (ones that start "the" or "de", etc) You can see the full list of over 2000 nicknames here.

The names in that cleaned-up list are unique, but of course originally there were plenty of duplicates. Here are the 20 most popular royal nicknames:

the Great	162	the Rich	35
the Younger	139	the Good	35
the Saint	119	the Wise	32
the Elder	76	the Blind	30
the Old	65	the Black	29
the Young	59	the Strong	26
the Pious	57	the Surety	26
the Fat	45	the Lame	25
the Brave	40	the Barracks Emperor	25
the Red	38	the Emperor of the Army	25

You know, that's a few more Barracks Emperors than I thought history would actually need.

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One (grudgingly admitted) advantage of winter: winter coats with big pockets, less of a need for the man bag.

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http://tinyurl.com/6moyv3 , Obama citizenship "fight" Schultz:"These are scientists. They should all come to the same conclusion." HaHA!

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Firefox 3 cares not for your pixel art.

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Annoyed by how my To Read bookshelf consists of an ever increasing percentage of the tall books that aren't as subway friendly...