Its like a fraternity for enlightened people. People whose goal is betterment of humanity, charity and similar things meet and discuss the best way to go about it. But since most of them were rich and powerful people and the fraternity thing meant that they were relatively secretive, there are billion conspiracies related to them and their actions.

As a former cat owner, I can tell you they certainly can be. My spoiled indoor cat was a murderous bastard who regularly snuck out. He brought home full grown crows, rats, squirrels and a whole goat of mice and smaller birds. He was never trained, he just hunted on instinct and he was faster than greased lightning so we couldn’t keep him inside. His mom was similar, although she stuck to smaller critters, and his son is scared of spiders.

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We have a barn cat who has definitely helped our field rat & mouse issues. He was a feral cat my son brought home a couple years ago. I've tried to convince him house living is nice but he wants no part of it (I brought him in during the awful cold we just had and he screamed his displeasure for 2 days straight).

My only complaint is when he leaves the corpses of his kills on my porch and the dog finds them before I do. Nothing like seeing your dog toss a dead rat around like a favorite toy. So gross. But we haven't had any signs of rats and fewer mice in the house since he's been around so I'll deal with the dead bodies I guess.

I don't understand the point of this comment

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During the black death they were killed in great numbers which was unfortunate as they kept the rodent population in check. Rodents carried the nefarious fleas that caused the plague. Inadvertently they were eliminating a protective component in their households when killing their cst friends.

Can someone please explain what free masons were

I've always suspected that humans migrated to the America's long before the accepted time frame. It's great to see more evidence being uncovered. 37kya is a massive jump back! I'm guessing they were just following the herds, and they might have followed them right back out or died out.

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This was a transition over many centuries, but became more popular during the Middle Ages, likely because of cultural changes during this time.

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It's hard to determine, and changed between different people. Some may have believed it as fact, while others thought of it as a myth.

The original copy is at the National Archives in Washington D.C.

There is no evidence to support this, and is likely just a myth or rumor.

Retail salesperson, fast food worker, factory worker. These are some examples of minimum wage jobs back then.

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I'm looking for books on Renaissance and Victorian Architecture in Europe, and books in European fashion history, particularly in France, also Renaissance to present day, with illustrations for reference in both. Thanks in advance, I know it's a bit of a tall order (:

I can't do reddit dark mode, or on anything else I have to read a lot of. It messes with my eyes too much.

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It's established in the old testament that good angels and bad angels can "appear" to be other shapes. I think there has been some confirmation bias in the demonizing of cats back then.

Who can be seen to skulk around on dark nights, when all "good people" are tightly indoors? Black cats.

Being dark helps them to better hide from those who would kill them, and hunting mice and rats at night is something that helps an oppressed animal survive. Once they see people hating them and trying to kill them (or even just throwing rocks), they don't need to know why. They'd hide out in the day, and hunt at night.

Yep, apologies - wrote that in a rush in between Xmas activities with the fam

Those with absolute power and never getting around to devolving it; name a more iconic duo lol. Cheers for the info.

Thanks!