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This year also begat “Billy the Kid” from “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst, which failed to hold its storytelling reins as securely as these other titles.

In this manner, Protestantism begat modern liberalism and individualism.

The hayseed county that begat Richard Nixon and the boysenberry also bestowed the Righteous Brothers’ “blue-eyed soul” and the drive-in church upon the world.

And in the course of this year I gave myself, I got the show “Godspell,” and that begat other things.

With money then breeding its own morality, the era’s capitalist excess naturally begat Trumpian-style corruption.