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I've seen 2 groups of people that have an interest in there family history: people confronted with mortality, either their own or that of a loved one; and people interested in history and research in general. The people that OOP is describing are more interested in an identity than they are genealogy.

Sounds a lot like my 1st cousin twice removed. She and her mother used to go all over the country to court houses and libraries to get information and she self published her findings. Having been 101 in the early 2000s when she passed, she had some interesting stories. My favorites were the pranks that the young men in her home town would play. Like swapping the wheels on their wagon front for back on saturday night so when they went to church they were riding way up in the air, or dissassembling the outhouse and reassembling it upsidedown on the roof of the barn.

Once had a teacher explain to our class all the things you were not aloud to do with the school DSLR cameras. It was mostly what you'd expect: don't leave it in your car, get it wet, etc., but when 'don't set it on fire' got everyone's curiosity the teacher explained that they had a student return a scorched camera with the excuse that they "wanted the audience to be able to feel the fire."

Its a parody of 'Marek Raczkowski - The cow' by itiscoolthing on instagram.

If all we knew were horse drawn wagons and carriages this seating arrangement might seem more normal.

What, no Turkish oil wrestling?

Francis Thackeray, in his 2025 article, suggests Sir Francis Drake could have acquired it when sailing in the area. Since traces of it were also discovered in 1600s Milan its possible that the spanish were circulating it. This 2024 study discusses how the Spanish at least knew of it as early as 1499.

Here's the paper for anyone interested. TLDR: In 2001 cocain residue was found alongside tobacco and hemp residue. There were also refrences to drugs in art and poems that the author supposes are cocain and cannabis. Fastwarward to 2023 when traces of cocain THC & CBD were found in bones from Milan. Today the author of the 2001 study is using the 2023 results to support his findings. As far as I can tell no one else has tried to test the pipe fragments.

Until relatively recently, in common law and some civil law countries you weren't fully autonomous from your gaurdian until you turned 21. At which point you no longer needed a gaurdians approval to make some legally binding decisions. Some institutions (eg car rental & insurance companies) find 25 to be the cut off for risky behavior. However, these measures don't capture emotional maturity as I've met people in their 50s that still act like teenagers.

STALKER 1979 based on the sifi novel Roadside Picnic, and was the inspiration for the video game series of the same name. It reminded me of Annihiliation 2018 but less horror/action, and more lamentations on humanity.

Every homeschooled person I've met has lacked all tact but YMMV. I haven't met anyone that was homschooled after leaving university so no clue if that improves over time.

Didn't know they had a preference for tree types. We had a morel show up sporadically over the years between a white pine and white birch. They're usually chewed on by the time I find them.