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- A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
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- A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- heavy-handed attempts to enforce the third poll tax, first levied in 1377 ... who was particularly associated with the poll tax), and the Lord Treasurer ...8 KB (1,321 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- numerous college sports in the United States. The AP Poll is the longest-serving college football poll, having started in 1936. The AP Poll, ranking the ...15 KB (2,343 words) - 05:02, 18 August 2023
- The revival began in 1962 following a Gallup poll indicating that Americans favored the establishment of some sort of National Honors List to ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- whether she was old enough to pay the poll tax, which encouraged his ... decided to resolve this with a new poll tax of three groats, which ...10 KB (1,583 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- In July 2008, an exit poll commissioned by Steadman International ... This contradicted the exit poll commissioned by Institute for Education ...24 KB (3,416 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2022
- the 8th most votes of any First Baseman in the poll for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, a poll voted on by fans. Also in 1999, editors ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw vote ... is often expressed as a margin of error. A poll with a random sample of 1 ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- In a June 2005 Sports Illustrated poll of 450 MLB players, Robinson ... [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/players/08/22/poll.0822/index ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
- This is reflected in the paper's readership: a poll taken between April-June 2000 showed that 80 percent of Guardian readers were Labour Party voters ...15 KB (2,174 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- children is widespread. In an AP-AOL News poll, 86 percent of American adults ... 6/12/23/AR2006122300225_pf.html AP Poll: Santa Claus Endures in America ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- the Liquor Amendment Act provided for national poll on prohibition and the New Zealand Viticultural Association was formed to “save this fast decaying ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- season-ending media polls, most notably the AP Poll of writers and the Coaches Poll. Currently, the Bowl Championship Series—an association of the ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- Bowl, and Cotton Bowl. Kentucky's final AP poll rankings under Bryant included #11 in 1949, #7 in 1950 (before defeating #1 Oklahoma in the Sugar ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- , and a poll of sport journalists and commentators placed him as the second best Argentine sportsman of the twentieth century, second only to ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- A 2008 television poll in the Ukrainian announced that Yarasolov had been voted as the greatest Ukrainian. This result was disputed by supporters ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- According to an Associated Press Poll conducted in July 2003, 71 ... htm Origin of Human Life--USA Today/Gallup Poll.] Retrieved December 1, 2007. ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- Top Ten list of the films selected by a poll of festival programmers across ... list. This list is produced from a wider poll of film industry professionals ...26 KB (3,603 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2023
- by-readership.shtml MORI poll of 21,727 British adults] Retrieved February 25, 2008. The combination of personal links between the paper's ...11 KB (1,656 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- floor, there are interactive consoles hosting a poll for the color to use for a future session of painting. ==Background== [[Image:Tour Eiffel ...10 KB (1,665 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- In a recent BBC poll, Venn was voted as the third greatest mathematician of modern times, narrowly beaten by Sir Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 04:30, 3 May 2024
- status with Muslims and again had to pay the poll tax. Buddhists had the starker choice of conversion or expulsion. David Morgan, Medieval Persia ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Stanton, Frank Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 - December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- In an American Institute of Architects' poll, the Chrysler Building came in first place as 90 percent of them placed the building in their ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- It was named #88 in the 1995 Centenary Poll of the 100 Best Films of the Century in Time Out Magazine. The film was also voted one of the ten ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- athletic competition. In 1950, an Associated Press poll among sportswriters voted Thorpe the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century, while ...24 KB (3,676 words) - 21:00, 3 April 2024
- coveted, in Gone with the Wind, and a radio poll named Davis as the audience ... She was listed in the annual "Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- the rights of Southern states to impose a poll tax),John H. Buchanan and ... Act was unconstitutional, and he supported poll taxes, literacy tests for ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the vingtième d'industrie, and establishing monts de piété ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes. Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery. He spent ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- official count differed markedly from exit poll results which gave Yushchenko ... announcing on the basis of its exit poll that Yushchenko had won. Beginning ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- * Number One World Musical Personality in the NME Poll (UK) 1960 * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member 1994 * Grammy Winner Best Rock Instrumental ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- as Alfred Reginald Brown, but later, by deed poll, changed his name to Radcliffe-Brown. As a child he developed tuberculosis, which left his lungs ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Problems emerged during implementation of the poll tax to fund local ... contest. After her resignation, a MORI poll found that 52 percent agreed ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- the tax system at the time--a direct capitation (poll tax)--was highly regressive, especially given the fact that there was a dichotomy in eighteenth ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 13:24, 27 January 2023
- absence of capital punishment, the lack of a poll-tax and land tax, and the presence of a strongly embedded caste system. Most citizens abstained from ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- a magazine aimed at libraries, organized a poll to determine the Swedish books ... |valign="top"|In 1998, a poll to determine the most important ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- She says that he tripled the poll-tax and pillages churches for their wealth. ==Death== When Al-Mutawakkil began to show favor to his second son ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- court lawsuits to stop discriminatory poll taxes. It also reinforced ... php?newsid=32459]. "Harris Poll Finds Public Support for Medicare ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- More recently, an Associated Press poll conducted in 1999 ranked Budge fifth, following Laver, Sampras, Tilden, and Borg. And in 2006, a panel ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
- and required loyalty to the empire, and a poll tax known as the jizya. Dhimmi ... imposed on dhimmis are known as jizya — a poll tax — and kharaj — a land ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- In the final informal poll on October 2, Ban received 14 favorable votes and one abstention ("no opinion") from the 15 members of the ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- A subsequent poll by The Straits Times found that while many Singaporeans knew what the anthem generally meant, only seven out of thirty five ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- brought under cultivation. He also introduced a poll tax and a produce tax. (Some historians believe that the well-field system had already been abolished ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- for their children to attend school. A poll tax hindered the poor from voting. ... new consumer taxes, elimination of the poll tax, a homestead exemption ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- Popular Male Vocalist" in 1948 by a poll in the show biz newspaper Variety. The next year, Jolson was named "Personality of the Year ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- survived to the present day in other countries: a poll among young Britons in 2006 found 34 percent did not believe the town existed, while the other ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- has been rehabilitated, as shown by a poll of 160 historians, political scientists, and urban experts. They ranked Daley as the sixth best mayor ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- 1986, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. Jane Mayer and Doyle ... however and by January 1989 a Gallup poll was "recording a 64 percent ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- woman of the twentieth century" during a poll. The book states that the magazine's circulation at the time was 4,000,000 readers. ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
