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A review of the Act reported "During the first year’s working of the new Act, only eighty-two patients were received, five under Section 1, upon conviction for an offence punishable by imprisonment or penal servitude; and seventy-two under Section 2, on a new conviction, after three previous convictions within a year, of an habitual drunkard.
A lawsuit challenging an unusual Virginia law that allows police to arrest and jail people designated as "habitual drunkards" was reinstated Tuesday by a deeply divided federal appeals court. The ...
Based on combined data in the US from SAMHSA's 2004–2005 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health, the rate of past-year alcohol dependence or misuse among persons aged 12 or older varied by level of alcohol use: 44.7% of past month heavy drinkers, 18.5% binge drinkers, 3.8% past month non-binge drinkers, and 1.3% of those who did not drink ...
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The epithet "the Drunkard" may refer to: Bekri Mustafa Pasha (died 1690), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; Michael III (839 or 840–867), Byzantine emperor; Selim II (1524–1574), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire; Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361–1419), King of Bohemia and King of the Romans sometimes called "the Drunkard"
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) [1] was an Australian writer and bush poet.Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
novel The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien [3] Skellig Skellig by David Almond [3] The Story Giant by Brian Patten [3] Tomo Yozora Mikazuki's friend in the Japanese novel Haganai: The Wild Things Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak [3] Winnie-the-Pooh and several other characters: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne