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- by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering ... incorporates elements from a wide range of disciplines, including chemistry ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 19:00, 13 February 2024
- Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures ... preserved and most complete extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Throughout his adult life, Hancock gave of himself tirelessly to the cause ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War and her views on abolition ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...15 KB (2,066 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- with two sections from the Torah's Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13 ... Jewish law (Halakha) prescribes in detail the affixing of mezuzot ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Felton filled the vacancy left by the death of Thomas E. Watson, serving just ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. It was ... revolutionary factions, with the passage of the Law of Suspects and the ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- activity involving the buying and selling of merchandise or services illegally ... Goods acquired illegally can take one of two price levels. They may ...19 KB (2,879 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... Self defense and defense of others (in the United States called alter ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... and was the emperor who reconquered the city of Rome from the Ostrogoths. He ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
