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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Lies My Teacher Told Me - Wikipedia

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    Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history. In addition to his ...

  4. The historical origins of 6 swear words - AOL

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    Sometimes, everyday speech just can't convey your meaning. You need words with a little more oomph ? expletives.

  5. History of Swear Words - Wikipedia

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    On December 9, 2020, it was announced that Nicolas Cage would host an unscripted six-episode series about the history of swear words for Netflix. [1] [2]The series has been produced by Bellamie Blackstone, Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, and Beth Belew for Funny or Die, with Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner for Industrial Media's B17 Entertainment respectively.

  6. The historical origins of 6 swear words - AOL

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  7. Washing out the mouth with soap - Wikipedia

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    1937 cartoon in Boys' Life. Washing out the mouth with soap is a traditional form of physical punishment that consists of placing soap, or a similar cleaning agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will taste it, inducing what most people consider an unpleasant experience.

  8. Criticism of the Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    However, the Court also ruled that "A religion is not established in the usual sense merely by letting those who choose to do so say the prayer that the public school teacher leads." Rather, the Court found fault with the teacher-led prayer because the State of New York had financed a religious exercise in requiring the teacher-led recitation ...

  9. Too many Americans want a dictatorship, not democracy ... - AOL

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    The success of the experiment depends on responsible leaders and citizens educated in the nation’s history and civics, and on acceptance of our national motto. Regrettably, such education has ...