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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
- replaced with the "Community Charge" (poll tax), a fixed charge the same for everyone. This proved even more unpopular than the rates, and was ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/480270.stm Presidential poll in Sri Lanka] BBC News, October 20, 1999. Retrieved May 4, 2023. She lost vision in her ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- A poll of American registered voters conducted by Morning Consult ... abff-7ffe72dc0000 "National Tracking Poll, July 17-19"] July 2020 ...39 KB (5,227 words) - 19:39, 26 April 2022
- In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was ... Briton" (out of 100) in a poll conducted by the BBC, and ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll by Prospect magazine (UK) In 2006, Random House released her first book for Western audiences, Iran Awakening: ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- which allowed the voters in a district to hold a poll to vote on whether their district went "dry" or remained "wet." ...24 KB (3,606 words) - 20:48, 26 March 2024
- audio of speech]) Several days before, a poll announced that a mere 29 percent ... * Gallup, George H. (ed.). The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1971 ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- 1941) as the top baseball feat of all time. A 1969 poll conducted to coincide with the centennial of professional baseball voted him the sport's ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- and in a Zogby poll of 803 people, a majority supported same-sex marriage. [http://www.gardenstateequality.org/poll.htm Garden State Equality ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- abolish the notorious Community Charge or Poll Tax introduced by the Thatcher ... 1992 General Election, and while the Gallup poll for September showed a 2.5 ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- ICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/ Poll: Clinton's approval ... In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Female British Artist in a New Musical Express poll. She also received the award again the following year. Inspired by the Italian song "Io ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- ten most famous living Bengali personalities in a poll organized by Muktadhara New York. ==Other Grameen initiatives== *Grameen Phone—Pioneer ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- A poll published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais revealed that, following the protests, Fernandez's approval rating had "plummeted ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- it is applied fairly, according to a Gallup poll] in May 2006.[http://www.pollingreport ... org/article.php?scid=23&did=1266 Gallup Poll: Who supports the death penalty ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- of the case were not is question, he declined to poll the jury and delivered an opinion he had written before trial had even begun. On June 18, 1873 ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- British Film Institute, has conducted a worldwide poll of film critics and film directors. In its latest such poll, conducted in 2002, Fellini was listed ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- that was Rocky Maricano. Recently in 2006, an ESPN poll voted Marciano's 1952 championship bout against Walcott as the greatest knockout ever. George ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- glimpse into the afterlife. According to a Gallup poll, approximately eight million Americans claim to have had a near-death experience. ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- all-time All-American team, chosen in a 1952 poll, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959, made the 25th and 35th NBA Anniversary ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- honorary citizen." However, according to a poll [http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4/3561/m3561294.jpg Pie chart]. Retrieved April 26, 2015. ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- voted the 45th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- anxiety-ridden workers. It also makes money-driven, poll-obsessed elected officials deferential to corporate goals of profit—often at the cost of the ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- of Arc, was listed in fourteenth place in the 2002 poll taken every decade by international critics with the British Film Institute's highly influential ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- In 1921, in an unofficial poll, 99 percent of the citizens voted for annexation to Germany. On March 13, 1938, during the Anschluss, German troops ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- actions. In December 2013, a Global Times poll revealed that over 85% of ... achievements-outweigh-mistakes-poll-2013122553410272409.html ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- intended for the German forces. In a poll of U.S. troops at the close of the war, Crosby was voted the person who did the most for G.I. morale ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- in that region of the country. According to a poll in the 1990s, about one in five adults in the United States claims to be a Baptist. U.S. Baptists ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- National and international observers declared the poll peaceful and fair. The Awami League won a landslide victory, winning 230 out of the 299 available ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal. Since its publication, it has never been out of print. ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- and it continues to appear in the Sight and Sound poll of best films, which is voted on by film directors every ten years. In 2005, Halliwell's ...21 KB (3,096 words) - 09:52, 23 May 2023
- United States, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today, which finds ... approval (the former in the aftermath of the Poll Tax Riots). ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- during World War I, making it official by deed poll in 1918. ===Early life=== Holst was born in 1874 at 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- were also made to pay the jizya, or Islamic poll-tax which all non-Muslims in the empire were forced to pay in order to practice their religion ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- /245/format/html/displaystory.html Poll shows power of AIPAC drops slightly.] Retrieved October 12, 2008. Financing such large budgets demands ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- A Gallup Poll at the time showed Wallace to be the seventh most admired man in America, just ahead of Pope Paul VI. === Third presidential bid === ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- prime minister of the twentieth century in a poll of professors organized by MORI. Ipsos Mori, [http://www.mori.com/polls/2004/leeds.shtml Rating ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- * Poll, Mark J. 2005. Visitor Experience in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Thesis (Ph.D.)—University of Tasmania, 2005. ...24 KB (3,392 words) - 04:34, 27 February 2023
- /is_5_29/ai_n15400020 "Gallup poll shows that Americans' belief in the paranormal persists"], Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved April ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- honors. He elected, instead, to take a "poll" (pass) B.A. degree, like his cousin, Charles Darwin. Following the Cambridge custom, he was ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- At the end of 1984, Rolling Stone Magazine's critics' poll named Tina Turner Artist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and R ...23 KB (3,629 words) - 22:06, 21 December 2023
- included in the top ten of the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public, and commemorated in the extensive Trafalgar ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- *In a 2005 poll, The Comedian's Comedian, the duo was voted the seventh-greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- party registering its worst ever opinion poll result since records began ... [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics/uk-poll-gives ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- winning each Downbeat magazine poll until the arrival of Gerry Mulligan. Carney, who also pioneered circular breathing, was the longest lasting ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- German chancellor" in first poll and, in the second, finished 82nd out of a group of '100 best Germans,' a good 50 places behind ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- for the highest approval rating on the Nielsen Poll. Phillip Coorey, [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/19/1211182705614.html The biggest ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- using various techniques, such as poll taxes and literacy tests. These new requirements could be waived for whites due to "grandfather ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- noted "serious inadequacies" in the poll. The authorities at times interfered with opposition party functions or used violence to disperse ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- made the BBC "World Top Ten" music poll in 2002. He composed the music for Nayakan (1987), an Indian film ranked in 2005 by TIME Magazine ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- 2006, according to a Levada-Center poll. according to another Levada-Center poll. These confrontations have ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- Belg (The Greatest Belgian) after a national poll conducted by the Flemish public broadcasting service, Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT). ...24 KB (3,819 words) - 01:38, 26 March 2024
- of the twentieth century. In this poll the experimental chemist Otto Hahn - after the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Max Planck ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- With Thomas E. Dewey having a substantial lead, the Gallup Poll quit ... John H. Lienhard, [hhttp://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1199.htm Gallup Poll ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- quot;land for peace" position). A 2003 poll shows that 76 percent of Israelis ... * Transfer of the East Jerusalem Palestinian population. A 2002 poll ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Salazar or his regime but that the poll, unrepresentative as it might be, shows discontent with subsequent administrations; "Whatever the ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- regular and proportionate. He condemned poll taxes as very unequal and excise on beer as taxing the poor excessively. He recommended a much ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily. * (1965) - The George Award from the ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- they thought would be the results. All of the poll respondents believed that only a few (average 1.2 percent) would be prepared to inflict the maximum ...34 KB (5,093 words) - 15:49, 27 April 2023
- In a 2005 British poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. ...28 KB (4,183 words) - 16:03, 31 October 2023
- 12079552 Thousands flee Ivory Coast for Liberia amid poll crisis] BBC News, December 25, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2020. After months of unsuccessful ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- yearly Village Voice "Pazz and Jop" Poll including albums 1999, Purple Rain, and Sign "o" the Times. [https://www.villagevoice ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- of the British Film institute has conducted a poll of hundreds of film critics worldwide as to what they regard as the best movies ever made. For ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- Democratic voters, according to the Gallup Poll. Yet, "by mid-March 1976 ... a way out of the malaise, Carter's poll numbers dropped even further. ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- violence surrounding the presidential poll, according to the UN. Around forty thousand Togolese fled to neighboring countries. == Economy == ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Outs Centenary of Cinema Top One Hundred poll, held in 1995. The earliest ... Century by the Village Voice Critics' Poll] Filmsite. Retrieved April ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- A Gallup poll conducted after the interviews aired showed that 69 percent of the public thought that Nixon was still trying to cover up, 72 percent ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- In 2003, Cromwell was ranked tenth in a popular BBC poll of "100 Greatest Britons." ==Quotes== * "Let us restore the king to his ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- According to at least one poll, Bush failed to convince the public ... [http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2005-02-07-poll-results ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- quot;The wall in the head"). A September 2004 poll found that 25 percent of West Germans and 12 percent of East Germans wished that East Germany ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- "Person of the Century," and a poll of prominent physicists named ... Retrieved December 18, 2007. the Gallup Poll recorded him as the fourth ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- * In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- the Motion Picture Herald exhibitor's poll of top ten film personalities ... the Motion Picture Herald exhibitor's poll of top ten film personalities ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- her from power after the introduction of the poll tax; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis; and Neville Chamberlain resigned ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk Shipyards, where Lech Wałęsa and others formed Solidarity ( Solidarność ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race. He created a campaign committee, began raising funds ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- property owners were allowed to vote in every civic poll in which they owned property. Up until the year 1955, mayors could only serve one term. City ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- are only two, to wit, a capitation, or poll tax, simply, without regard to property, profession, or any other circumstance; and a tax on land ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- festival of lights; and abolished the jizya (poll tax) imposed on non-Muslims. Akbar came up with his own theory of "ruler ship as a divine illumination ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- and is the basis for modern engineering. In a 2005 poll of the Royal Society of who had the greatest effect on the history of science, Newton was deemed ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Tribunal to rule on the alleged poll fraud cases concerning the Thai Rak Thai and Democrat political parties. Guilty rulings would have dissolved ...35 KB (4,836 words) - 23:02, 15 May 2024
- In a poll organized by Animal Planet in 2004, more than 50,000 viewers from 73 countries voted to decide their favorite animal (Manchester 2004 ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- * Pineapple Poll—from a story by Gilbert and music by Sullivan ;Adaptations *The Swing Mikado (1938; Chicago—all-black cast) *The Hot Mikado ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- great popularity." Hooker cites a 1998 poll in which 66 percent of the population say they think Holland will still be a monarchy in fifty ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- seventh on Film Daily year-end nationwide poll of 542 critics naming the ... *2002: Sight & Sounds Greatest Film Poll of Directors – No. ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- " Astonishingly, Annie came out on top of the poll in Tower Hamlets, with over 15,000 votes. Annie wrote in the National Reformer: ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- National and international observers declared the poll peaceful and fair. The Awami League won a landslide victory, winning 230 out of the 299 available ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- They contained provisions, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, that in practice effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- parties boycotted the election, describing the poll as "ridiculous, rigged, and rubbish." Djibouti's second president, Guelleh ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- html Aurangzeb's Fatwa on Jizya (Jizyah, or Poll Tax)]. Retrieved August 8, 2011. * Manas, [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Mughals/Aurang3 ...35 KB (5,433 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- * Gallup, George Horace (ed.). The Gallup Poll; Public Opinion, 1935 ... :Summarizes results of each poll as reported to newspapers. ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- to the economic crisis by imposing a poll tax. The resulting social crisis manifested itself in the peasants' revolt. ==Examples of feudalism== ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- Based on poll results, Governor Jim Doyle chose for Wisconsin's 50 State Quarters design a Holstein cow, an ear of corn, and a wheel of ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- ,1676950,00.html Mitterrand tops presidential poll (01/2006)]. Category:Biography François_Mitterrand|133405304 ...37 KB (5,492 words) - 09:38, 11 April 2024
- In 2002, Henry VIII placed 40th in a BBC-sponsored poll on the 100 Greatest Britons. Henry VIII was the subject of William Shakespeare's ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- speech, telling him, "You've got high poll ratings; you can afford to lose a few points." Larry Wilkerson later characterized Cheney ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- Mrs. Simpson, who had changed her name by deed poll to Wallis Warfield, in a private ceremony on June 3, 1937, at Chateau de Candé, near Tours, ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- in the top ten more than any other woman in the poll's history. Matthew Smith, [https://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-reports/202 ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of two thousand households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- reputed to have occurred when Kirov topped the poll in elections to the Central Committee. Stalin acolyte, Lazar Kaganovich, ordered a number of ballots ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- due mostly to the effects of the cumulative poll tax.Glenn Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- A midsummer 1978 poll showed that Democrats preferred Kennedy over ... ives/carters-onjob-rating-falls-in-poll-because-of-foreign-policy ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- also ranked #1 on the net's corresponding poll). VH1's "100 Greatest Rock Songs" included: Hey Jude at #8, Yesterday at #12 ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- national identity cannot be contested. In 2005, a poll showed him gaining the highest result as the leader that Israelis missed the most, outpolling even ...40 KB (6,019 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- coach. In 1969, through a Chicago Sun-Times fan poll, Cubs fans voted him the greatest Cub ever. In 1970, Banks hit his 500th career home run at Wrigley ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- can speak Russian. According to a Eurostat poll, around 80 percent of the Lithuanians can hold a conversation in Russian and almost all are familiar ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- htm Beijingers Get Greater Poll Choices] China Daily, December ... A 2015 poll conducted by Gallup International found that 61 percent ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- #039;s second best city in a 2006 Kiplinger's poll of "Smart Places to Live," and Minneapolis was one of the "Seven Cool Cities ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- and he slipped to No. 5 on Down Beat's annual poll of most popular singers. With record sales also falling, Sinatra tried a new musical approach ...40 KB (6,385 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- and Georgia and he still managed to poll nearly seven thousand votes.}} Category:Politicians and reformers 105375465 ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- Views soften on 2 former presidents, CNN poll finds] CNN. Retrieved October 8, 2019. ==Post-presidency== After failing to get re-elected, Bush ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Addiction is widespread in the United States. According to a 2017 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, almost half of US adults know a ...52 KB (7,118 words) - 05:48, 15 June 2023
- around 60 percent of respondents to a poll by El Tiempo report that they do not practice their faith actively. The Colombian constitution guarantees ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- felons or to people who failed to pay their annual poll tax. Much of the Reconstruction civil rights legislation was overturned by the United ...46 KB (6,871 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- largest parties in the state. In the assembly poll of 2007, Congress-led coalition won. Sanjay Banerjee. Congress set to rule Goa again [http://timesofindia ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Angela Merkel's party crushed in Hamburg poll] The Guardian, February 21, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2022. However, she scored well on her handling ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- She placed seventh in the 100 Greatest Britons poll, which was conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2002, outranking all other British ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- on/2012/07/07/top-100-chapter-book-poll-results |title= Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results |author= Bird, Elizabeth | publisher=A Fuse #8 Production ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- CIA World Factbook. The 2005 Eurobarometer poll available at eu.int [http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_225_report_en ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- to higher utility costs and gas prices. A poll before the 2004 US Presidential Election indicated that 76% of voters who shopped at Wal-Mart ...58 KB (8,209 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- According to a telephone poll conducted by ABCNEWS/Primetime in 2004, 60 percent of US residents believe the story of Noah's Ark is literally ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- all time. By a large margin, an Associated Press poll in 1950 named Bill Tilden as the greatest player of the first half of the twentieth century. ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- Darwin was fourth in the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. == Biography == === Early life === ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- woman, the biological father. In a 2003 Gallup poll in the United States, 72 percent of respondents were in favor of spousal notification, with 26 ...56 KB (8,002 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- National Movement for Free Elections, an accredited poll watcher, showed Aquino winning by almost 800,000 votes. However, the government tally showed ...51 KB (7,579 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- elections that followed the presidential poll with ease. During an official visit to Madagascar on July 21, 2005, Chirac described the repression ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- on other science fiction writers. In a 1953 poll of leading science fiction authors, he was cited more frequently as an influence than any other ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- in the 2014 presidential election. The poll, held between 26 and 28 May 2014, resulted in a landslide victory for el-Sisi, who was sworn into ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- in serious misconduct at Waco. A TIME magazine poll conducted on August 26, 1999, for example, indicated that 61 percent of the public believed ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- disaster was closer to 1 in 100. He then decided to poll the engineers themselves, asking them to write down an anonymous estimate of the odds of shuttle ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) conducted a poll regarding the 100 Greatest Britons; Victoria attained the eighteenth place. ...55 KB (8,686 words) - 14:59, 10 May 2024
- won them a majority in the carefully controlled poll.Tom Buchanan, Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945–2000 (Blackwell Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0631221638 ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- – Tyson Most Hated Athlete, According To Poll |url=https://archive.seattletimes ... In a 1999 ESPN poll, he was ranked as the second-greatest U.S. athlete ...148 KB (22,705 words) - 23:33, 13 May 2024
- support to McCarthyism. In January 1954, a Gallup poll found that 50 percent of the American public supported McCarthy, while only 29 percent had an ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- Frank Newport, [https://news.gallup.com/poll/228089/news-billy-graham ... * Good Housekeeping Most Admired Men Poll, 1997 * Congressional Gold ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- The Gallup Organization recently took a poll on the most popular presidents in U.S. history. Ronald Reagan was chosen by 87 percent of Americans ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- 19-2005-faith-and-family-in-america/11465/ Poll: Americans Idealize Traditional Family, Even as Nontraditional Families Are More Accepted] Religion ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- is the fact that a 2005 televised call-in poll identified him as the third greatest American, after Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln. Even posthumous ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
- According to a January 2007 poll by the Catholic World News: 51 percent identified as being Catholics, 31 percent identified as being agnostics ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- makeyougohmm.com/20060723/3613/ USA Today Poll] Retrieved October 19, 2007. *Jewish - 0.6 percent *Christian – 81 percent **Roman Catholic ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- of love fits best with popular understandings: In a poll of Chicago residents, the most favored definitions of "love" involve altruism, selflessness ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- to a Eurostat "Eurobarometer" poll, in 2005, only 40 percent of Bulgarian citizens responded that "they believe there is a God ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- were imposed, including the harac, a graduated poll tax on non-Muslims. The system called devsirme was introduced, under which Christian children ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- white Democratic-dominated legislature passed a poll tax in 1885, which largely served to disenfranchise all poor voters. Losing political power, black ...77 KB (11,899 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- According to an NBC exit poll taken during the 2004 presidential election, 52 percent of Alaskan voters were "Protestant/other Christian ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- of Palin Grow Increasingly Negative, Poll Says], The Washington Post, October 25, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2018. McCain said later in life ...89 KB (12,407 words) - 02:53, 2 May 2024
- dhimmi subjects of the Muslim state and paid a poll tax (jizya). Invaders destroyed the Academy of Gundishapur and its library, burning piles of books ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- Act of 1965 on August 6. The legislation suspended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other voter tests. It authorized federal supervision of voter registration ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- of the tailbone; in horses most often found at the poll (base of the skull). * Blastic tumor or blastoma: A tumor (usually malignant) which resembles ...90 KB (13,223 words) - 19:16, 25 November 2023
- According to the most recent Eurobarometer Poll 2005 43 percent of Belgian citizens responded that "they believe there is a god," whereas ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- only once during the late 1960s did the Gallup Poll indicate that a majority of Americans favored "doing more" in space as opposed to "doing ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
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- Shinzo Abe and LDP in sweeping win – exit poll] BBC News, December 16, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2021. Japan's dealing with its war ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- autonomy in exchange for payment of the kharaj poll-tax. Following the death of Emperor John V Palaiologos in 1391, however, Manuel II escaped Ottoman ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
