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@RachelT1722 In 1776 England was a monarchy and only became a more democratic system under an elected Prime Minister since the 19th century, making the United States older than modern England

If you instead count countries' age in habitation, everywhere's been inhabited since neolithic times

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@ctjlewis Obviously Rome wasn't actually founded by a guy named Romulus, that's just a myth! Italy wasn't really named after Italus or Britain after Brutus ect.

But America is historically proven to be named after a guy named Amerigo "Americus" Vespucci

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Do the people running LACMA think you're too stupid to notice the English letters, or are THEY genuinely that stupid and just threw in an Egyptian looking sculpture with the other Egyptian stuff?

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Visited LACMA and was disgusted to see this modern recreation of a Sphinx (complete with English letters) wasn't in the modern art museum, but in the same section as actual Egyptian artifacts thousands of years old

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@DAMendelsohnNYC An unabridged copy of Histories by Pherecydes of Athens would greatly broaden our knowledge of Greek mythology

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@vers_laLune Snakes are everywhere

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In the country song Back When I Knew It All, the theme is looking back on his arrogant youth, and one of the lines is:
Back when the World was flat and mommy and daddy didn't have a clue!

Is he saying he went through a flat Earther phase? And his parent were against it?

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I remember in college our professor sneeringly told us that citing a source by book and page was "Chicago style" and unacceptable.

The correct, scholarly way to cite a source is last name and year like "Smith 2011" and you just have to guess which author, book and page that is

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Why does Subway bother having sandwiches to order if you still have to tell them each step?
The guy today asked what veggies I'd like on my BLT.

"Uh, lettuce and tomatoes for starters!"

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In some versions of Oedipus after he found out he married his mom they got divorced and he took a second wife

His aunt.

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In Aladdin 2 Genie also mentioned going to Olympus and getting in a race with Hercules, which is never mentioned in the crossover

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It irritates me that the Disney Aladdin/Hercules crossover has Hercules just go to Arabia and meet Aladdin as if they're the same time period

If I were writing it, I would've had Genie wish Hercules to their time and place then wish him back

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@PauleyMo67 @SladeTheGuy Nah, the writers of Genesis were just ignorant of where the source of Nile was, probably believed it flowed from Asia through land south of the red sea and back up into Egypt, a common belief in the ancient world

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@planefag Just tried it. If you search "what kind of wood did 1200s Japan use for furniture" you get this definitive looking AI answer that cites 5 articles, but none of them actually mention the 1200s, 13th century, or Kamakura, so you still have no source for that information

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@centristpeater None. Betting markets are no more predictive than polls because it's just bookies who can't see the future, it's just them going off the polls and their guts

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@boneGPT Maybe she really was being stalked because she pissed off a schizophrenic

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My favorite joke in Spider-Noir so far is Nicholas Cage telling a kid to stay in school and saying with stone faced seriousness "You don't do math with letters, kid"

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@Uchimamalul Every review is always "They established something that came back into the story later, that's bad writing!" or "They never established that, that's bad writing!"

And half the time he either doesn't finish the movie or skips large portions in the middle

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@redrummarts Most tragically, he overhears his parents roleplaying and thinks it's his dad cheating, and says in his narration that they never spoke of it, so that event ruined his opinion of his father right before he died and will taint his memory of him forever

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@LeftMyHeartOnD If they wanted to redeem her, she should've said she knew Homelander would conquer America violently if she didn't get the President in his pocket so she actually saved lives and delayed his purge just long enough to stop it

But no, she's just amoral