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The antiquary John Hodgson once wrote a 165-page-long one of these texts establishing the origin of Hadrian’s Wall. These texts are the locus of a “secondary narrative” according to a “curious history” by Anthony Grafton that examines their use (10[1])by Pierre Bayle and Leopold von Ranke. (-5[1])Nikolai Berdyaev used one of these texts to claim “This was once revealed to me in a dream.” (-5[1])These (10[1])texts, which distinguish a method used by Kate Turabian, may begin with the letters “n.b.” Alfred North Whitehead (10[1])wrote that all European philosophy relates to Plato through these texts. (10[1])Asterisk, dagger, double dagger is a common (10[1])sequence of superscripts for these texts, which often use the abbreviation “ibid.” For 10 points, Chicago style uses what texts for citations at the bottom of the page? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: footnotes [accept endnotes or The Footnote: A Curious History; prompt on notes, citations, or references]
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