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  • In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...
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  • Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...
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  • American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... candidate to speak out against the Vietnam War, and for making this stance ...
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  • reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... India, on March 5, 1879, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil ...
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  • the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...
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  • :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...
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  • woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...
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  • Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife ... Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward ...
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  • Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...
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  • the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...
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  • Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...
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  • Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... *De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625 ...
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  • Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...
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  • politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...
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  • colonists against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to ... sentiment against various restrictive laws imposed by Great Britain on ...
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  • Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...
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  • As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...
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  • [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... of international law. For example, laws of war were long a matter of ...
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  • Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...
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