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Ceiling Cat

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Oil crises in early 70s

In 1983. It may be coincidence but the year after National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) came out station wagon sales started to slide. It could also be that divorce rates started to rise and people had less children. The mini van first came out in the 1984 model year.
 

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I assume you mean new Rome (dissolved) about 10 years ago. They had issues with corruption thru the police force and famous for speed traps and other trumped up charges

Evidently these small towns that are run by corrupt town officials and police are all over the US and Canada. Battenburg Ohio was a a clump of houses with a convenience store and gas station when they incorporated themselves into a town. A way to give full employment to all the citizens of the town they first hired themselves as police officers to generate income by giving out speeding tickets for the slightest infraction of the speed limit. The income generated was used for town services like garbage collection, water, street cleaning ect. were administered by other people in the town.

These corrupt towns even existed in Canada. I heard first hand from a woman in Quebec that her father did street paving for small towns and he had to kick back to the mayor bribes in order to get the contract.

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The origins of the word quarantine is from Spanish word for forty. In the 17th. and 18 century when ships going into a port would have to be anchored for 40 days before they could enter to ensure they were not carrying disease.
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