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This reminds me of Holy Roman Empire, it's neither Holy nor Roman nor it's an Empire.

There's this old picture from a 1986 MIT lecture: https://miro.medium.com/max/4448/1*-yaqXNO1tUwVkUpyOqTT7Q@2x....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&t=15s

Good find. My post is voted down, but this authoritative source is literally saying the same exact thing.

Defining a thing by what it's not. Now that is a science unto itself.

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