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This year’s Washin Kai’s spring lecture will be by Professor Davinder Bhowmik from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington (UW). On April 8, Bhowmik will be ...

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As you can see from the list above, it’s going to take a lot of Shards to unlock all of the characters in DC: Dark Legion. Thankfully, the game makes it pretty easy to acquire them. They come ...