Crucible

Hilarious to even try this. Fiduciary responsibility demands extracting every single cent from every drop of blood or you lose your job as CEO, but we get to sue now if they do it in a way that's too icky- buddy wait'll you hear about how all labour is exploitation

Lord of the Flies is one of the biggest ones of these. MFer heard about people surviving collectively after a shipwreck, wrote a book about how humans can't do that, and now people cite it like it's a historical document

When they had that star ship hotel guests could have their personal Star Wars^tm^ Experience which let them side with the Empire and the climax of the story was ratting out Chewbacca and having him dragged off by stormtroopers

Always enjoyed that the eating habits of the democratic elites are so strange and bland that conservatives preferred to believe a global kidnapping conspiracy made more sense

Synthesis: It's peak slop for children

Mainly through the Catholic church, as monks were the main copiers of texts. Monasteries were most likely to have copies of history books but often local churches had their own libraries (this is fairly unique to England among western Europe at the time). As far as I understand if you wanted to learn something you would ask a member of the clergy for help, and they would inquire on your behalf to local churches, monasteries, and aristocracy's libraries. If they found a book on the subject you wanted you would usually travel to where the book was kept and a priest or monk would be in the room with you while you read it (reading silently was a rare practice at the time, so they could monitor how you were reading the text) They would also usually try to get anyone with this level of curiosity to join the church professionally

If you were a landholder your priest might be loaned the book and he would bring it to your house, watch/listen to you read it, then take it back to the church for the night.

This time period is also when Oxford and Cambridge universities become prominent so they might have been a resource available but I'm not sure how accessible they were to normal people

Suetonius's Twelve Caesars is usually the oldest source for the story. After ~900 the English population was highly literate and many people could read Latin as well as Old English so many Roman histories were available to them

You should dress nicer if you respect the people you're meeting with, as a result this is actually too formal attire for dealing with US senators

She might be the only person who got more conservative politics after leaving Christian music

and he's always annoyed people call him Houthi but that's going to happen when you name your band that

I like this guy, he doesn't trust the rich businessman and he's a fuckin' unit

I know it was supposed to be stressful for him but that whole scene all I could think was how much I'd enjoy if I had Forrest Whittaker doing a revolutionary monologue running in the background all the time