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It’s time for another whimsical Tuesday Turnip Google search wherein I type a random phrase and we see what kind of interesting factoids “turn-up.”
Today I typed in “most scholars agree,” unearthing the following:
While most scholars agree that Jesus existed, no physical evidence from the first century has ever been conclusively tied with his life.
Most scholars agree that women have been the source of [some of the world's most famous fairy tales and stories] particularly because, lacking formal educations, they had no or limited access to expressing themselves in print on paper
We know very little about the author of The Odyssey and its companion tale, The Iliad. Most scholars agree that Homer was Greek; those who try to identify his origin on the basis of dialect forms in the poems tend to choose as his homeland either Smyrna, now the Turkish city known as Izmir, or Chios, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea.
Most scholars agree that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the remains of a library that belonged to an ancient Jewish sect, the Essenes. This community inhabited an arid plateau on the north-east corner of the Dead Sea.
Most scholars agree that at least 30 million died in [Chairman] Mao’s great famine.
Military or violent imagery remains surprisingly understated in Minoan art, and most scholars agree that Minoan religion was more female than male centered, as far as we can tell.
And my personal fav, ‘cause it’s just so darn hilarious: according to author Dan Brown, “Most scholars agree that even Da Vinci’s most famous pieces —works like the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Madonna of the Rocks — contain startling anomalies that all seem to be whispering the same cryptic message.”