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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 1 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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freetime2 ◴[08 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43928453[source]▶
The pope is not a subject that typically interests me, but I must admit that I find announcing a decision with changing smoke color rather delightful. I wonder how long ago that started.
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ch4s3 ◴[08 May 25 17:16 UTC] No.43928553[source]▶
The white smoke means there's a pope thing started in 1914[1], but they've been burning the ballots for a very long time.

[1]https://www.history.com/articles/pope-conclave-smoke-color

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wvbdmp ◴[08 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.43929396[source]▶
Any chance the guy who programmed history.com to redirect deep links to your local tld version’s frontpage is on HN? What a helpful feature
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1. majewsky ◴[08 May 25 19:06 UTC] No.43930079[source]▶
They might be, but the necktie that made them do it sure isn't.