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A Guy I kind of know knows a guy who wrote a thesis saying that the reason England had no revolution in the 18th or 19th centuries is because of cobblestones: revolutions begin at street-level, iwith a number of largely unrelated but similarly-motivated groups of dissenters. In most European countries, the riots and disturbaces that lead to full revolution begin with instances of the populace lifting cobblestones from the street and chucking them at the police (there's the link), but in England the cobblestones were just to large, and therefore public disorder came to nothing.
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