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I have a colleague who blames a variety of American cultural facets on the Puritans and their legacy. Is that influence actually still discernible today?

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My bag of flaxseeds tells me that Charlemagne loved them so much he enacted laws requiring subjects eat them. Are there sources on this, and how would such laws have been enforced?

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Were (Christian) religious orders responsible for the development of music notation as we know it today?

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I have a colleague who blames a variety of American cultural facets on the Puritans and their legacy. Is that influence actually still discernible today?	479
My bag of flaxseeds tells me that Charlemagne loved them so much he enacted laws requiring subjects eat them. Are there sources on this, and how would such laws have been enforced?	127
Were (Christian) religious orders responsible for the development of music notation as we know it today?	3