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I've seen claims that the modern institution of the police grew out of slave-catching patrols. Is this accurate? What was the earliest thing that you or I would recognize as a police force?

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How did the more-arbitrary-seeming units we use to measure time come to be; in particular, why seconds, why minutes, and so on, and why so many 12's and 60's?

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What's the history of the photographs in the "We Didn't Start the Fire" music video?

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I've seen claims that the modern institution of the police grew out of slave-catching patrols. Is this accurate? What was the earliest thing that you or I would recognize as a police force?	331
How did the more-arbitrary-seeming units we use to measure time come to be; in particular, why seconds, why minutes, and so on, and why so many 12's and 60's?	4
What's the history of the photographs in the "We Didn't Start the Fire" music video?	1