"Recent Documents" stack appeared today... from where?

On my MacBook Pro, a new stack called "Recent Documents" appeared this morning. I like it, but where did it come from? Right-clicking on it gives me options to make it Recent Apps or Recent Servers, or Favorite Volumes or Favorite Items.
There is no folder on my Mac with that name. How did it get there? And if I accidentally poof it, how will I ever get it back?
Daru

There is no folder. It is an undocumented feature of the Dock that can be activated by the Teminal command, or by a third party utility that runs that command, or simply does what the command does, to wit, adds a certain bit to the Dock's plist file. I suppose it is related to Smart Folders, which also don't exist as actual entities, but only as snippets of code. No actual folders are involved, just a tiny bit of code that in effect tells part of the system to do certain things. The misnamed Smart Folders tell the Finder to open a window and display a list of items matching the criteria in the code snippet. The same is true for the Recent Items stack, except in this case the Dock has an entry in its plist file that tells it to use its stacks ability to display recent items.
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