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Six Impossible Episodes: More Mother Goose

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Six Impossible Episode Series

Tracy v wilson and holly fry take a look at some of the origins of nursery rhymes. A lot of english language nursery rhymes are more than 300 years old. It was not until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that people started really studying these poems. Many historians and folk lorists argue that these kinds of interpretations are mostly conjecture.

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