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If you’ve ever spent time in certain conspiracy theory circles, the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail is mentioned. Curious, you might read it. Perplexed, you might wonder how it is that so much history went unreported. Well, there are lots of versions of history. One could spend many lifetimes tracing them all out.

Not being any sort of scholar, we cannot advise on the historical accuracy of anything. We can say that sales of certain books are certainly increased by the sales of other books. As always, this joyful news is greeted with a lawsuit. We applaud modern courtesy, though we have to wonder: if there are truly no original ideas, what is a poor author to do?

All things considered, we’re suggesting law school.

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