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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by ohiovr on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:51PM (#33116543)
The future would continue like a nursery rhyme. Embedded in everyone that had English speaking ancestors had this inscribed in them:

ring around the rosy pocket full of posy ashes ashes we all fall down

The inscription date was 538 ad, the second year of the plague of Justinian and the installment of the Biship of Rome.

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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by jhugo on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:54PM (#33116916)
There's no record of that rhyme earlier than the 19th century. Also, the association of it with any kind of plague is a modern invention. Usually association with the Great Plague is claimed, but no writing about the rhyme from before WWII makes any mention of a plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Gre...

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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by Dracophoenix on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:39PM (#33116822)
Oddly enough, that's a similar idea to a plot point in anime called Dr.Stone.

https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales

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