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For example, the character of Little Melvin the pimp in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights made me uncomfortable, and yet doubtless such characters existed at that time, and Orlando Jones does a lively job with the performance, and if I am watching a movie about a (Jewish) man who runs a numbers game, is it not possible one of his customers might be like this man?
Italy has only existed as a nation since 1871.
Occurrence within the CCR4 family of LRR-containing genes both in yeast and animals, suggests that a LRR-containing gene existed before the divergence of yeast and animals.
No overland route existed from Mérida to the rest of Mexico until 1949, when the first railway arrived.
Notwithstanding, even the brief glimpses afforded by such investigations can provide some insight into civilizations that existed hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of years earlier.