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March 1, 2024, marks Ohio's 221st birthday. That's right: the Buckeye State was officially granted statehood on March 1, 1803 — 27 years after the United States declared independence from ...
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...
The amount of ridiculous laws that still exist on the books in this day and age is mind-boggling. ... More on strange selfie trends . 4. Kansas is really serious about selling blue ducklings.
Weird Ohio: Your Travel Guide to Ohio's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (January 2006). Loren Coleman, Andy Henderson, James A Willis. ISBN 1-4027-3382-8; Weird Oklahoma: Your Travel Guide to Oklahoma's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (June 2011). Wesley Treat, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran. ISBN 1-4027-5436-1
It may come as a surprise, but all of these things are legal in the U.S., at least in some parts. The post 18 Things You Think Are Illegal but Aren’t appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Zurcher was born on November 12, 1935, in Henrietta, Ohio, near Oberlin. Zurcher joined the Marines and after being honorably discharged in 1954, began working as a reporter for the Oberlin News-Tribune. [1] Seven years later Zurcher made the switch from print to broadcasting when he became a reporter for WEOL radio in Elyria, OH. During his ...
It may be 2021, but some of the antiquated and downright bizarre laws that remain in place around the world (or that have recently been enacted) would make you think otherwise. From bans on what ...