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  2. Vigilantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The term "vigilante" was not yet in use, and the acitivists called themselves "regulators." The poor farmers bitterly resented the overpaid corrupt local officials appointed by a distant elite, By 1768 the decentralized movement was highly popular in the backcountry. When two local leaders were arrested, 700 Regulators turned out to free them.

  3. Pastebin - Wikipedia

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    Contrarily, a reference to a pastebin entry is a one-line hyperlink. [citation needed] A new class of IRC bot has evolved. In a chatroom that is largely oriented around a few pastebins, nothing more needs to be done after a post at its pastebin. The receiving party then awaits a bot announcing the expected posting by the known user. [citation ...

  4. List of vigilantes in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Khabardar Shahri (rough Hindi translation of "vigilante"), one of the most famous vimal series of novels by Surender Mohan Pathak in which the hero, a serious offender on brink of reform takes up arms once again to punish five rapists one of whom is nephew of the kingpin of the local crime syndicate which results in a new gang war and the ...

  5. Vigilante (character) - Wikipedia

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    Late in 2005, DC published a Vigilante limited series by writer Bruce Jones and artist Ben Oliver. The identity of the title character is initially left mysterious, but apparently this is a new incarnation of the character. [citation needed] His name was Justin "Jay" Sutter. When he encountered a murderer as a child, he created a second ...

  6. Vigilantism - Wikipedia

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    The "Bald Knobbers", an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri – as portrayed in the 1919 film The Shepherd of the Hills Vigilantism ( / v ɪ dʒ ɪ ˈ l æ n t ɪ z əm / ) is the act of preventing, investigating, and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority .

  7. San Francisco Committee of Vigilance - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the earlier committee, and the vigilante tradition generally, the 1856 committee was concerned with not only civil crimes but also politics and political corruption. [7] The catalyst for the committee was a murder, in the guise of a political duel in which James P. Casey shot opposition newspaper editor James King of William. King, along ...

  8. Fish (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

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    Fish (or friendly interactive shell- stylized in lowercase) is a Unix-like shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Fish is designed to be feature-rich by default, rather than highly configurable. [5]

  9. Pastebin.com - Wikipedia

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    Pastebin.com is a text storage site. It was created on September 3, 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010. It was created on September 3, 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010.