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Rebecca, pet raccoon of Calvin Coolidge, was originally brought to the White House with the intention of being eaten at a Thanksgiving dinner. Was eating raccoons common among high society in 1920s America, and if so, when and why did it go out of fashion?

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To what extent did the European public and scientific community in 1818, when Frankenstein was published, legitimately believe reanimation of corpses was a near-future technological possibility?

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Rebecca, pet raccoon of Calvin Coolidge, was originally brought to the White House with the intention of being eaten at a Thanksgiving dinner. Was eating raccoons common among high society in 1920s America, and if so, when and why did it go out of fashion?	5725
To what extent did the European public and scientific community in 1818, when Frankenstein was published, legitimately believe reanimation of corpses was a near-future technological possibility?	58