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Two interesting articles I came across...both definitely related.

https://thebillfold.com/2015/08/lies-damned-lies-and-wedding-cost-statistics/

Quick, tell me: how much does the average wedding in the United States cost? $25,000? $30,000? Somewhere in between? As a culture, we seem to have internalized, even normalized, the idea that the cost of weddings—or, at least, the “average wedding”—edges up every year, crossing the 30-grand threshold in 2014 at an unprecedented $31,213.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nd-divorce-in-the-united-states-in-one-chart/

We often hear that marriage rates in the U.S. are declining. But what do trends in marriage and divorce really look like over the long run, and why? In a new post, data tinkerer Randy Olson provides some clarity on those trends by pain-stakingly assembling and analyzing data on marriage and divorce rates going back to before 1870 from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
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I really can't imagine spending more than $10k on a wedding. Even that amount seems dumb as **** to me.
 
https://www.openculture.com/2015/10...-iraq-adding-new-dimensions-to-the-story.html

20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl1zlHJnpKc

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The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters. Since the poem has existed in fragments since the 18th century BC, there has always been the possibility that more would turn up. And yet the version we’re familiar with — the one discovered in 1853 in Nineveh — hasn’t changed very much over recent decades. The text remained fairly fixed — that is, until the fall of Baghdad in 2003 and the intense looting that followed yielded something new.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/califor...olved-uss-conestoga-lost-nearly-century-found

SAN FRANCISCO -- For nearly a century, the disappearance of the USS Conestoga, with 56 officers and sailors on board, remained one of the U.S. Navy's great maritime mysteries.

But over the past year and a half, intrepid research, days on the high seas and haunting photographs helped finally solve the sensational saga, which grabbed national headlines in 1921 and spurred a search as immense as the one for Amelia Earhart's plane a decade later.
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Who the **** is this?

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it's David Letterman
 
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