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Also known as: humanities
The newest Big 8 branch, added in 1995 for literature, philosophy, classics, and the fine arts, with groups such as humanities.classics and humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare. It was carved out to give scholarly arts discussion a home distinct from rec.arts. Group counts and traffic have been modest from the beginning, so servers carry the entire branch without any meaningful storage cost.
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