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  2. Civilian life under the German occupation of the Channel Islands

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    Parents, however, were initially not normally permitted to travel with them unless there was a child under school age. [2]: 1 In Jersey no order was given for schools to be evacuated. Evacuation was then opened up for other people, [3]: 14 but with the shortage of shipping and to avoid panic, people were recommended to "stay put". Confusion ...

  3. Read my lips: no new taxes - Wikipedia

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    This perceived betrayal quickly led to a bitter feud within the Republican Party. When Sununu called Gingrich with the news, Gingrich hung up on him in anger. When Senator Trent Lott questioned the reversal, Sununu told the press that "Trent Lott has become an insignificant figure in this process."

  4. Michael Heseltine - Wikipedia

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    During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9%) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory. (The rules required an incumbent leader to obtain a majority of at least 15% on a first ballot; Thatcher polled 204 votes, equal to 54.8%).

  5. List of whistleblowers - Wikipedia

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    Congo Free State English shipping clerk turned journalist who reported on the atrocities in the Congo Free State in Africa and became an anti-slavery campaigner. His revelations led to a strong campaign against Belgian King Leopold II 's autocratic regime in his African territory, where the rubber plantations brutally exploited slave labor .

  6. Political positions of Bernie Sanders - Wikipedia

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    Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?" Sanders responded: The answer is yes. And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions.

  7. Political positions of Joe Biden - Wikipedia

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    Biden has said, "I consider the Violence Against Women Act the single most significant legislation that I've crafted during my 35-year tenure in the Senate. Indeed, the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 was the beginning of a historic commitment to women and children victimized by domestic violence and sexual assault. Our ...

  8. LGBTQ people and Islam - Wikipedia

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    ˹As for˺ those of your women who commit illegal intercourse—call four witnesses from among yourselves. If they testify, confine the offenders to their homes until they die or Allah ordains a ˹different˺ way for them. And the two among you who commit this sin—discipline them. If they repent and mend their ways, relieve them.

  9. African American–Jewish relations - Wikipedia

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    Of all the shipping ports in Colonial America, only in Newport, Rhode Island, did Jewish merchants play a significant part in the slave-trade. Historian Eli Faber says that "[t]he numbers just aren't there to support the view" of significant numbers of Jewish slaveholders, and that "Jews were involved, but to an insignificant degree."