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The Penal Law of the State of New York combines justification and necessity into a single article, Article 35. "Defense of Justification" comprises sections 35.05 through 35.30 of the Penal Law. The general provision relating to necessity, section 35.05, provides: § 35.05 Justification; generally.
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 [2] [a] – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary [3] who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 [4] in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. [5]
At a speech before the Economic Club of New York that same month, Trump publicly called for a commission to audit the federal government that would be led by Musk. [266] On January 20, 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created by executive order ; initially, Vivek Ramaswamy was to co-lead with Elon Musk, but he left ...
Georgia [c] is a country in Eastern Europe and West Asia. [13] [14] [15] It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, Russia to the north and northeast, Turkey to the southwest, Armenia to the south, and Azerbaijan to the southeast.
At first, James B. Duke thought the name change would come off as self-serving, but eventually, he accepted Few's proposal as a memorial to his father. [10] Money from the endowment allowed the university to grow quickly. Duke's original campus, East Campus, was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings.
Many locations where suicide is common have constructed barriers to prevent it; [309] this includes the Luminous Veil in Toronto, [307] the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, and Empire State Building in New York City. [309] They generally appear to be effective. [310]
The name Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई) originated from Mumbā or Mahā-Ambā—the name of the patron Hindu goddess (Kula Devata) Mumbadevi of the native Koli community [40] —and from ā'ī, meaning "mother" in the Marathi language, which is the mother tongue of the Koli people and the official language of Maharashtra.