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Belle Plaine in Scott County was incorporated as a borough by a special act of the State Legislature in 1868 and remained so until it became a city in 1974. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] During that time it was the only borough in the state, [ 12 ] and had the same roles and responsibilities as a village.
25 out of 50 US states, and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands [23] have statutes that explicitly codifies and protects against both sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in employment in both the public and private sector: California, [24] Colorado, [25] Connecticut, Delaware, [26] Hawaii ...
In late 2002, Rep. Joe Baca (D- California) introduced a bill (Congress bill HR 5607) to schedule salvia as a controlled substance at the national level. Those opposed to Joe Baca's bill include Daniel Siebert, who sent a letter to Congress arguing against the proposed legislation, [1] and the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE), who sent key members of the US Congress a report on ...
The county was created by the Minnesota Territorial legislature on February 20, 1855, although the county government was not organized until January 1, 1867, with Long Prairie as the county seat. It was named for John Blair Smith Todd , who was a delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives , and general in the ...
The Minnesota State University campus in Mankato, Minnesota currently contains 32 buildings spread over 354 acres (143 ha) and 77 acres (31 ha) of protected ravine. [1] [2] The campus includes on-and-off campus residence communities, academic buildings, libraries, astronomy observatories, center for renewable energy, recreation centers, student center, administration centers, athletics fields ...
In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...
Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, [1] (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.