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On one side, an army uniform and combat boots. On the other, a future crown and the title Queen of Spain.

Princess Leonor of Asturias is 20 years old and is in the middle of a three year military training program. Year one was at the Army Military Academy in Zaragoza. Year two on the navy training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano. Year three at the General Air Academy.

When she takes the throne, she will be Spain's first reigning Queen since Isabella II in 1868, more than 150 years ago.

Her education is also remarkable. Beyond Spanish, she is publicly known to speak English, French, Catalan, and some Arabic solid for any diplomat.

A 20 year old soldier carrying 150 years of royal history on her shoulders. Not your average student gap year.

Sources: Reuters, Town & Country

In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that — by some mysterious agency — capture patterns of the universe around us?

— Ian Stewart, The Magical Maze

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When you take the pressure away and make sense of the math, everything changes.

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