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\\\"Fox News takes it to a whole new level. Gretchen Carlson won Miss America \\\'89 by playing a goddamn classical violin solo, graduated from Standford University with honors, and studied at Oxford University (\\\"Not the Mississippi one,\\\" says Jon Stewart, \\\"the European one.\\\") and yet, despite all that, she has to google the word \\\"czar\\\". Her expert analysis? \\\"It means king.\\\"
She also may not have realized that it is the same word more commonly rendered in English as \\\'tsar\\\', particularly in the fiction genres and \\\'\\\'particularly\\\'\\\' in older books. (Seriously, go to your library or bookstore and look up books with tsar/czar in them, particularly in Russian fairy tale books.) And to a \\\"Western\\\'\\\' mind, tsar or czar might well mean \\\'king\\\', even though research will show it was a bit more complicated then that. (Then again, it was complicated being a king in Britain, and that was different from being a king in France, and so on for other countries.)
The only reason I know tsar/czar and what it means, is that I love to read, once went through a time where I read every fairy tale book I could get a hold of, love history, and was interested enough to look it up.
She also may not have realized that it is the same word more commonly rendered in English as \\\'tsar\\\', particularly in the fiction genres and \\\'\\\'particularly\\\'\\\' in older books. (Seriously, go to your library or bookstore and look up books with tsar/czar in them, particularly in Russian fairy tale books.) And to a \\\"Western\\\'\\\' mind, tsar or czar might well mean \\\'king\\\', even though research will show it was a bit more complicated then that. (Then again, it was complicated being a king in Britain, and that was different from being a king in France, and so on for other countries.)
The only reason I know tsar/czar and what it means, is that I love to read, once went through a time where I read every fairy tale book I could get a hold of, love history, and was interested enough to look it up.
