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  2. Nakam - Wikipedia

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    Nakam (Hebrew: נקם, 'revenge') was a paramilitary organisation of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, after 1945, sought revenge for the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner , the group sought to kill six million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, " a nation for a nation ". [ 1 ]

  3. Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Revenge is a label that is ascribed based on perceivers’ attributions for the act. Revenge is an inference, regardless of whether the individuals making the inference are the harmdoers themselves, the injured parties, or outsiders. Because revenge is an inference, various individuals can disagree on whether the same action is revenge or not ...

  4. Jabberwocky sentence - Wikipedia

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    A Jabberwocky sentence is a type of sentence of interest in neurolinguistics. Jabberwocky sentences take their name from the language of Lewis Carroll's well-known poem " Jabberwocky ". In the poem, Carroll uses correct English grammar and syntax, but many of the words are made up and merely suggest meaning.

  5. Cycle of violence - Wikipedia

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    The term cycle of violence refers to repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern, [1] associated with high emotions and doctrines of retribution or revenge. [citation needed] The pattern, or cycle, repeats and can happen many times during a relationship. [1]

  6. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Between 20 years and life imprisonment (parole eligibility for life sentence if crime committed before January 1, 1995: 15 years or 20 years if sentenced to more than 1 life sentence, 25 years if the victim was under the age of 8) (Prisoners are eligible for geriatric parole when they turn 60)

  7. Revanchism - Wikipedia

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    In Albert Bettannier's La Tache Noire (The Black Stain, 1887) French students are taught about the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, taken by Germany in 1871.. Revanchism (French: revanchisme, from revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement.

  8. Self-defence in English law - Wikipedia

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    But like arrest, it does have to be to prevent crime or escape. You don’t have to retreat [27] (although that is a factor in assessing reasonableness [28]), or wait for the first blow, [29] but must not take revenge. Revenge is evidence of unreasonableness [30] and seeking confrontation removes the defence. [31]

  9. Wh-movement - Wikipedia

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    The following examples of sentence pairs illustrate wh-movement in main clauses in English: each (a) example has the canonical word order of a declarative sentence in English, while each (b) sentence has undergone wh-movement, whereby the wh-word has been fronted in order to form a direct question.