>>>>Canadians also drive on the correct or “right” side of the road, unlike others in the world.
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>>>The reason that the English drive on the right stems back to the ancient Romans. They drove their chariots on the left in order to have their right sword arm free to meet enemies. In the U.S., however, horse drawn wagons were built with the brake on the left, forcing drivers to sit on that side, and therefor to drive on the right to get a better view of the road.
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>>Interestingly, I've heard that the reason men's and women's clothes button on different sides is cos the man kept his cloak closed with his left hand, sword arm free, whereas women held their infants with the left arm, so they could use the right arm, but this meant keeping the cloak closed with the right hand.
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>Another take on the differences in buttons on the front of garments for the upper body for men and women is that women were dressed by another person and therefore the buttons were reversed from those of a man's garment. How is that for a run on sentence?
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>It is hard to believe that all women were dressed by another person. Surely that is the “correct answer”! :)
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>By the way I read the above many years ago in a historical reference. I am sure there are as many interpretations on this one subject as there are from any one line of the Bible!

Yeah, Alan's just put this forward. See my answer to him.