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* Cardiff only became the capital of UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} until 1955; before then, there was no definite Welsh capital city.
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* MrsClaus was added to the lore about Santa Claus in the 1850s and had numerous pop culture appearances in the century afterward, but only really became popular in TheSixties, apparently spurred on by the 1963 Phyllis [=McGinley=] storybook ''How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas''. Bizarrely, the earliest depiction of Mrs. Claus as a character in a live action audio-visual production was in the notoriously cheesy 1964 film ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' (she also appeared in ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' in the same year).
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* Only a few big city American newspapers had full-time film critics on staff until TheSixties. Most other papers would just mention what films were playing as part of their entertainment coverage, without reviewing them (or sometimes just reprint reviews from the papers who had critics). The event that really revolutionized the film critic as an important part of a newspaper staff was Judith Crist's review of ''Spencer's Mountain'' (the Creator/DelmerDaves-directed film starring Creator/HenryFonda that was the forerunner to ''Series/TheWaltons'') in the ''New York Herald Tribune'' in 1963. Crist took on the role of CausticCritic with gusto, tearing the film apart for "its smirking sexuality, its glorification of the vulgar, its patronizing tone toward the humble, its mealymouthed piety," adding that "it makes the nudie shows at the Rialto look like Creator/WaltDisney productions." The film's studio, Creator/WarnerBros, angrily pulled its advertising from the paper, but the paper stood by her, and the StreisandEffect helped boost Crist's profile. Warner eventually backed off and started advertising in the paper again. Other papers, realizing that opinionated reviewers could boost readership, started adding them.
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* Children were not exactly encouraged to "read, read, read" until sometime after the advent of television. Of course, before the television (or even the radio) was invented, reading was the primary source of entertainment. Parents viewed "excessive reading" to be a much bigger issue than "not reading enough". While "excessive reading" is still a concern for some parents today, it takes a backseat to the issues of "too much television" or "too much video games".
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* While Mardi Gras traditions in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans ultimate stem from French roots, they didn't really start solidifying until the mid-1800s, i.e., long after Louisiana became part of the United States. The traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold were chosen in 1872 by the inaugural king of the Krewe of Rex, apparently because he thought they looked good together.
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* While Mardi Gras traditions in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans ultimate ultimately stem from French roots, they didn't really start solidifying until the mid-1800s, i.e., long after Louisiana became part of the United States. The traditional "traditional" Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold were chosen from scratch in 1872 by the inaugural king of the Krewe of Rex, apparently because he thought they looked good together.together. The participation of the African-American community in the then-segregated celebrations didn't really get ramped up until the Zulu parade was founded in 1909.
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** Given that each flag represents a state in the union, this trend will happen again when the United States gains a new state (in fact, a flag with fifty-one stars has already been approved... [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica now we just need to find the right State]]). The new flag is traditionally issued on [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays the 4th of July]] following the new state's admission into the Union.
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** Given that each flag star represents a state in the union, this trend will happen again when the United States gains a new state (in fact, a flag with fifty-one stars has already been approved... [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica now we just need to find the right State]]). The new flag is traditionally issued on [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays the 4th of July]] following the new state's admission into the Union.
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* The concept of the office cubicle dates back to the 1968 debut of the "Action Office II" design collection (technically it had been developed for the original collection released in 1963, but that wasn't successful), and it took less than two decades for businesses to turn them into workplace hell by shrinking them to the point they could no longer be reconfigured or customized as needed by their users.
** Hot-desking became prevalent in the 1990s as big businesses increasingly found themselves with not enough office space for all their staff to work. Similarly, open-plan offices came into vogue in the mid-aughts as a backlash against densely-packed, characterless workplaces.
** Hot-desking became prevalent in the 1990s as big businesses increasingly found themselves with not enough office space for all their staff to work. Similarly, open-plan offices came into vogue in the mid-aughts as a backlash against densely-packed, characterless workplaces.
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* Old Navy [[NonIndicativeName has no connection with the Navy]], nor is it especially old. It was established as a discount version of Gap in 1993, called Gap Warehouse, but then rebranded as Old Navy in 1994.
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* Old Navy [[NonIndicativeName has no connection with the Navy]], nor is it especially old. It was established as a discount version of Gap in 1993, called Gap Warehouse, but then rebranded as Old Navy in 1994.
* Old Navy [[NonIndicativeName has no connection with the Navy]], nor is it especially old. It was established as a discount version of Gap in 1993, called Gap Warehouse, but then rebranded as Old Navy in 1994.
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** Japan's flag, while an image that dates back to at least the 7th century and accepted as a civil ensign in 1870, wasn't legally adopted as the country's national flag until ''1999''.
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* Some Website/TVTropes articles are also surprisingly new. ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', for instance, was just a redirect to ''Manga/DragonBall'' until May 2013.
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** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union]] article was just a redirect to a subsection of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1982%E2%80%931991) History of the Soviet Union (1982-1991)]] article until May 2010.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_alley Bowling alley]] was a redirect to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling bowling]] until June 2017.
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* Some Website/{{Wikipedia}} articles were created surprisingly recently, previously being relegated to sections within other articles:
** The "pivotal event in world history" that was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall fall of the Berlin Wall]] didn't have its own article until September 2019, before which it was just a section in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall Berlin Wall]] article.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Month Pride Month]] article was created in October 2022, previously just being a section within [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_pride LGBT pride]]. Meanwhile, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_Month Wrath Month]], a term coined on Website/{{Twitter}} in 2018 in analogy to Pride Month, had an article a few months before this.
** The "pivotal event in world history" that was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall fall of the Berlin Wall]] didn't have its own article until September 2019, before which it was just a section in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall Berlin Wall]] article.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Month Pride Month]] article was created in October 2022, previously just being a section within [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_pride LGBT pride]]. Meanwhile, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_Month Wrath Month]], a term coined on Website/{{Twitter}} in 2018 in analogy to Pride Month, had an article a few months before this.
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* The American Lung Association was founded in 1904 but has only had that name since 1973. It was originally the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, then the National Tuberculosis Association, then the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association.
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* Smoking tobacco wasn't popularly regarded as an unhealthy vice (on par with alcohol) until the 1950s, and its associated health risks didn't become universally accepted until the ''1990s''. Up until that point, it was generally seen as a neutral habit, with tobacco companies continuing to market cigarettes for their supposed health benefits well into the 1960s. The Surgeon General of the United States first officially recognized cigarettes as a contributor to lung cancer in 1957, eventually leading to cigarette advertisements being banned from American television in 1970, and the Surgeon General's printed health warnings on tobacco products becoming mandatory in 1984. As late as 1994 (during the Congressional hearings leading up to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement]] of 1998), the [=CEOs=] of numerous major tobacco companies were still publicly claiming that nicotine wasn't even addictive.
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* The flag of Wales dates back to the late 15th century, but it wasn't officially adopted as its national flag until as recently as 1959.
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* People tend to think of reptiles as ancient, and view the surviving groups as being as old as non-avian dinosaurs. While that is true for crocodiles, turtles, and lizards, snakes (who are just a subgroup of lizards) didn’t show up in the fossil record until the Upper Cretaceous, with the first confirmed snakes being dated to just 95 million years ago (with possible earlier types showing up 100-110 mya), and it took them a while to become fully legless, while the first mammals showed up around the same time as the dinosaurs during the Late Triassic, and birds branched off from the non-avian dinosaurs during the end of the Jurassic! Similarly, while gigantic crocodiles (like ''Sarcosuchus'' and ''Deinosuchus'') and turtles (like ''Archelon'') coexisted with the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous, snakes from the time would have been lucky to reach 12 feet (which is fairly common and often surpassed by living constrictors), and the first gigantic snakes like ''Titanoboa'' only showed up during the early Cenozoic, after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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* It's easy to assume that [[SoundOff cadence calls]] have been part of American military culture forever, but they only really date to the latter days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when African American soldiers introduced long-entrenched traditions like the CallAndResponseSong and work songs into drills and others enthusiastically noticed the idea. Specifically, "SoundOff" itself was originated by Georgia-born Pvt. Willie Lee Duckworth during a May 1944 march at Fort Slocum, outside New York City, quickly spread throughout the service, even getting recorded and pressed onto an official vinyl record so that other squadrons could learn it.
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**The custom of the Pope kissing the ground on arriving in a country for the first time originates with PopeJohnPaulII. And Popes rarely travelled at all before Pope Paul VI (r. 1963-78). Prior to him, no pope had ever left Europe, even to visit the Holy Land; popes were generally old men unfit for long and dangerous travels, and their high status meant that people came to them.
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* Stock prices in the US weren't quoted in dollars and cents until ''2001''.[[note]]The transition to decimal pricing started in 2000, but wasn't completed until 2001.[[/note]] Before then, they were quoted in dollars and ''fractional'' dollars; the standard increment was 1/16, but for more valuable stocks 1/8 was standard, and even smaller fractional powers of 2 were employed for less valuable stocks. Canada changed to decimal pricing only 5 years earlier, in 1996. By contrast, France had used decimal pricing for literally ''centuries'', and the UK had done so for several decades.
