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  2. Barrel threads - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Many older rifles from the first half of the 20th century use a thread pitch around 2 mm (12.7 TPI), while many modern rifle use thread pitches around 1.5 mm (16.93 TPI). Fine threaded systems intended for hand tightening typically use thread pitches around 1 mm (25.4 TPI).

  3. Temporary protected status - Wikipedia

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    In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.

  4. United States energy law - Wikipedia

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    Other statutes are the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, [20] the Energy Security Act, [21] the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act, and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 [22] Most of these laws are codified at U.S. Code, Title 16, Chapter 12 – Federal regulation and development of power.

  5. Gospel of Matthew - Wikipedia

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    The Gospel of Matthew [a] is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels.It tells how Israel's messiah (), Jesus, comes to his people (the Jews) but is rejected by them and how, after his resurrection, he sends the disciples to the gentiles instead. [3]

  6. Christian views on slavery - Wikipedia

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    In 1917, the Roman Catholic Church's Canon Law was officially expanded to specify that "selling a human being into slavery or for any other evil purpose" is a crime. [146] Pope Francis was one of the prominent religious leaders who came together in the Vatican, 2 December 2014, with the aim of eliminating modern slavery and human trafficking ...

  7. Freedom of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division 450 U.S. 707 (1981)) [48] Likewise in Texas in 2009, issues that related to animal sacrifice and animal rights were taken to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Jose Merced, President Templo Yoruba Omo Orisha Texas, Inc., v. City of Euless.

  8. Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

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    The Archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". [ 293 ] In 2009, The Murphy Report is the result of a three-year public inquiry conducted by the Irish government into the Sexual abuse scandal in Dublin archdiocese , released a few months after the report of the Ryan ...

  9. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware, [1] [2] although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and frequently makes system calls to an OS function or is interrupted by it.