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August 2, 2021
August 3, 2020
August 2, 2020
June 22, 2015
→Recount, again...: @Andy
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→Recount, again...: I get "301" for the 1900s, but the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s are correct
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→Recount, again...
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June 14, 2015
June 13, 2015
→De Minimis: correction: "Opportunity cost" is an example, which is also on the list.
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→De Minimis: It is conservative to look beyond materialism to a greater truth. "Opportunity" is an example, which is also on the list.
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→De Minimis
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→De Minimis: Jesus made violations of the Old Testament rules excusable when de minimis. for example.
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→De Minimis: new section
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July 21, 2014
→Act of God
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→Act of God: new section
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→Typewriter: add image
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→Typewriter: Excellent find!
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→Typewriter: OED
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"Typewriter" is a great addition, but Merriam-Webster gives a date of origin of 1868, not the date earlier in the 1800s just entered here. Does anyone have more info about this?
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July 19, 2014
→Parochial Schools
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→Parochial Schools: Merriam-Webster says that the term "parochial school" started in 1755, and that seems about right.
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Parochial schools
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July 17, 2014
July 16, 2014
→Rolling Coal
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→Rolling Coal: Interesting suggestion. "Rolling coal" is not in my dictionary, and I'm not familiar with the concept. Let's see if others have an opinion about it
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we should add Rolling Coal
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May 30, 2014
→Baseball
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→Baseball: Britain deserves credit for lots of things, but not everything, and there should be more discussion of why Britain has declined so much.
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→Baseball
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the following authority recounts the history and concludes that "This is not enough to conclude that the game we know today as Baseball is a British game"
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→Baseball
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→Baseball: corrected my edit
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→Baseball: I'm skeptical about that baseball has any meaningful British origin. Cricket, which is quite different, is the comparable sport there.
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May 29, 2014
May 28, 2014
→Baseball: liberals sometimes use conservative words, but that does not make the words any less conservative
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→Baseball
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the players and fans of baseball are overwhelmingly conservative, it's one of the few sports that is governed by rules rather than a clock, and it's an American original
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→Baseball: new section
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