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In school, college, and university, people have for some six centuries been receiving diplomas and titles to prove that, in varying degrees (a loaded word), they are educated.
When this word was first used in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, it meant unconcerned, lacking interest, apathetic, uninterested--the very senses it has been struggling to return to in this century, against great opposition.
The westernmost territory of Europe was highly prized by North African Moors, who occupied it from the eighth to the 13th centuries.
Europeans love to condescend to Americans, but not until historian C. Vann Woodward put all the ways they do so into a book-- The Old World's New World , which came out in 1991--was it possible to see how inventive they've been about it over the past four centuries.
For centuries they were popular souvenirs of the grand European Tour or religious pilgrimage.