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   Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 16:44:41 JST Nitin Pai

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   @generalising @sarahf Sarah - did you?

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     Andrew (generalising@mastodon.flooey.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 16:44:50 JST Andrew

     In 1827 the University of Oxford discovered that for five centuries, every graduate had been swearing to uphold a vendetta against one specific man. it took *another* 85 years for anyone to figure out who he was.
     https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis/