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====History==== [[File:Queue outside a soup kitchen at Klostertorv in ร lborg 1943.jpg|thumb|1943 [[soup kitchen]] queue in [[Aalborg]], Denmark]] The first written description of people standing in line is found in an 1837 book, ''[[The French Revolution: A History]]'' by [[Thomas Carlyle]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.racked.com/2018/1/17/16897160/lines-waiting-history|title=Why We Wait in Lines|last=Keiles|first=Jamie Lauren|date=1 January 2018|work=Racked|access-date=2018-01-19|df=dmy}}</ref> Carlyle described what he thought was a strange sight: people standing in an orderly line to buy bread from bakers around Paris.<ref name=":0" />
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