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pseudangelos t1_j8ff44h wrote

Reply to comment by 777IRON in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone

I disagree too. Food culture travels and evolves. We have been eating curries in the UK since the 18th century - at what point do we get to call it our own?

It's as silly as telling an American that he can't consider pizza a national food because it comes from Italy.

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Innard-Piece t1_j8fa8hk wrote

Reply to Today I learned Tabula rasa (blank slate) is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception, which is in direct contrast to Innatism which is the idea that the mind is born with ideas, knowledge, and beliefs. by St3v3nMS3

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p314159i t1_j8ey4ix wrote

Reply to comment by twinparadox in TIL The city of Verona, Italy, where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set, receives thousands of letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day. The letters are answered by a team of volunteers known as the "Juliet Club." by basictoknow

>poem

That is the key point here. Poem didn't need to have characters played by actors, and in Shakespeare's time all female roles were played by pre-pubescent boy actors.

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