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My high school US history teacher said the Puritans came here because of religious freedom and persecution--they wanted the religious freedom to continue persecuting people after the Restoration.

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Did dinner shift to the evening mean because of industrialization or did suburbanization play some role?

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How much modern superstitions in the Anglosphere has origins in Victorian occultism rather than being a long held folk belief?

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My high school US history teacher said the Puritans came here because of religious freedom and persecution--they wanted the religious freedom to continue persecuting people after the Restoration.	3242
Did dinner shift to the evening mean because of industrialization or did suburbanization play some role?	10
How much modern superstitions in the Anglosphere has origins in Victorian occultism rather than being a long held folk belief?	1