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

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