enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by...

    The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind: H. G. Wells: 1932 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State. [167] Men of Good Will: Jules Romains: 1932–1946 Novel Sequence The English translations of Romains' novel sequence were banned in the Irish Free State. [166] The Martyr: Liam O'Flaherty: 1933 Novel Banned in the Irish Free State. [167 ...

  3. Book of Enoch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch

    Judging by the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship. [6]

  4. Sumptuary law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law

    The seventh-century BC law-text of Locrians by Zaleucus, the first written 'law code' in ancient Greece, stipulated: . A free-born woman may not be accompanied by more than one female slave, unless she is drunk; she may not leave the city during the night, unless she is planning to commit adultery; she may not wear gold jewelry or a garment with a purple border, unless she is a courtesan; and ...

  5. The Master Key System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Key_System

    The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel that was originally published as a 24-week correspondence course in 1912, and then in book form in 1916. [1] The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy. It was one of the main sources of inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's film and book The ...

  6. US Senate bill targeting China's BGI, WuXi AppTec moves forward

    www.aol.com/news/us-senate-committee-takes-bill...

    (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's homeland security committee voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that could restrict business with Chinese biotech companies like BGI and WuXi AppTec on national ...

  7. Entick v Carrington - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entick_v_Carrington

    Entick v Carrington [1765] EWHC KB J98 is a leading case in English law and UK constitutional law establishing the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power. [1] The case has also been influential in other common law jurisdictions and was an important motivation for the Fourth Amendment to the United States ...

  8. 39 Melakhot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Melakhot

    The commandment to keep Shabbat as a day of rest is repeated many times in the Hebrew Bible.Its importance is also stressed in Exodus 31:12–17: . 12 And יהוה said to Moses: 13 Speak to the Israelite people and say: Nevertheless, you must keep My sabbaths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout the ages, that you may know that I יהוה have consecrated you. 14 You shall keep ...

  9. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divide:_American...

    Published by Spiegel & Grau, the book illustrates the "divide" by looking at the relationship between growing income inequality and the criminalization of poverty, as poor people are increasingly harassed, arrested and imprisoned for minor crimes in the U.S., sometimes for no actual crime at all, even as crime rates continue to plummet, resulting in a prison population that "is now the biggest ...