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  2. Ugly law - Wikipedia

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    From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...

  3. Strange laws - Wikipedia

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    A lot of purportedly strange laws within European Union law do not actually exist, or are wildly exaggerated; these are referred to as Euromyths. Misrepresented Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 , sometimes referred to in the media as the 'bendy banana law': the alleged ban on curved bananas is a long-standing, famous, and stereotypical ...

  4. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Simply put this law states that evolution is not reversible; the "law" is regarded as a generalisation as exceptions may exist. [3] [4] [5] Dulong–Petit law states the classical expression for the specific heat capacity of a crystal due to its lattice vibrations. Named for Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit.

  5. How a 173-year-old law created for wooden ships could ...

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    President Joe Biden said the U.S. government should foot the bill for repairs. Recovering any of those funds from the owner of the Dali may prove more challenging.

  6. Colonial American bastardy laws - Wikipedia

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    Colonial America bastardy laws were laws, statutes, or other legal precedents set forth by the English colonies in North America.This page focuses on the rules pertaining to bastardy that became law in the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania from the early seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century.

  7. And although they still show up at the WTO in Geneva, they have made it all too clear to the rest of the world that, in the view of the U.S., the WTO is no longer central to world trade, and that ...

  8. 100-Year-Old Antitrust Laws Are No Match for Big Tech

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    (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When U.S. antitrust laws were first written more than a hundred years ago, the word “data” had a slightly different meaning, referring mainly to facts and manually ...

  9. Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The law applied to US citizens as well as immigrants. It required a five-year commitment, during which time the land owner had to build a twelve-by-fourteen foot dwelling, and develop or work the 160-acre (0.65 km 2) plot of land allocated.