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  2. Transgender rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In September 2016, California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring all single-occupancy bathrooms to be gender-neutral, effective since March 1, 2017. [322] California is the first U.S. state to adopt such legislation. [323] Vermont, New Mexico and Illinois have since followed suit in 2019. [324]

  3. United States Space Force - Wikipedia

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    On 20 December 2019, the National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law and the U.S. Space Force was established as the sixth armed service, meeting the Rumsfeld and Allard commissions' recommendations to create a Space Corps within the Department of the Air Force, but still falling short of creating a separate Department of the Space ...

  4. Minamoto no Yoshitsune - Wikipedia

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    Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経, c. 1159 – June 15, 1189) was a commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. During the Genpei War, he led a series of battles that toppled the Ise-Heishi branch of the Taira clan, helping his half-brother Yoritomo consolidate power.

  5. Abortion law - Wikipedia

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    How strictly all of the procedures dictated in the legislation are followed in practice is another matter. For example, in the United Kingdom, a Care Quality Commission's report in 2012 found that several NHS clinics were circumventing the law, using forms pre-signed by one doctor, thus allowing abortions to patients who only met with one ...

  6. John Doe - Wikipedia

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    These were then replaced by the fictional characters John Doe and Richard Roe. Eventually the medieval remedies were (mostly) abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act of 1833; the fictional characters of John Doe and Richard Roe by the Common Law Procedure Act 1852; and the forms of action themselves by the Judicature Acts 1873–75."

  7. Butterfly knife - Wikipedia

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    In California, balisong/switchblade knives are legal to own, buy, sell, and transport if the length of the blade is not more than 2 inches (51 mm). If the length of the blade is more than 2 inches (51 mm) they are illegal to buy, sell, transfer, or possess in public although it is legal to possess one if kept at home (Penal Code section 17235 ...

  8. Silencer (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Omega-type baffles form a series of spaced cones drawing gas away from the borderline and incorporate a scalloped mouth creating cross-bore turbulence, which is in turn directed to a "mouse-hole" opening between the baffle stack and sidewall. Propellant gas heats and erodes the baffles, causing wear, which is worsened by high rates of fire.