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    "Nine Points of the Law" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders...
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  • Possession is nine-tenths of the law is an expression meaning that ownership is easier to maintain if one has possession of something, or difficult to...
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    Zeffie Tilbury (category Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory)
    the next day. Tilbury was known first on the London stage and on Broadway in New York City. In 1881, she debuted on stage in Nine Points of the Law at...
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    A. J. Raffles (character) (category Characters in British novels of the 19th century)
    Cracksman, chapter "Nine Points of the Law", p. 160. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, chapter "The Ides of March", p. 11. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman...
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    E. W. Hornung (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    "Wilful Murder", "Nine Points of the Law", "The Return Match" and "The Gift of the Emperor". Doyle was not particularly flattered by the dedication and it...
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  • by the force of circumstances can be accepted as a proof. It is on this presumption our common adage is based: "Possession is nine points of the law"....
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    Helen Gibson (category American people of Swiss-German descent)
    the picture was finished, and it bankrupted Gibson personally. A year later, the film was released by another studio with a new title, Nine Points of...
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    The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...
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  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the third live-action television series in the Star Trek franchise and aired in syndication from January 1993 through June...
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  • real identity, Raffles proceeds to his house with the intention of murdering him. "Nine Points of the Law" – Raffles and Bunny are tasked by a lawyer to...
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    The Order of Nine Angles (ONA or O9A) is a militant Satanic left-hand path occultist and terrorist network that originated in the United Kingdom but has...
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    Tom Taylor (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    to the Bad, 1858 New Men and Old Acres, 1859 A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 Barefaced Impostors, 1859 The Contested Election, 1859 Nine Points of the Law, 1859...
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    definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a...
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    down the remaining pins, that bowler receives nine points for that shot, regardless of the number of pins knocked down to receive these nine points. If...
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    Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits...
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  • According to Brooks himself, the law is an "outrageous oversimplification", but it captures the general rule. Brooks points to the main factors that explain...
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    Tom Taylor's comedy Nine Points of the Law. The comedietta Tears followed, in which Hill played Mrs Vivien. She performed at the Mirror Theatre in 1875...
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  • conservation issues. Meadows started with a nine-point list of such places, and expanded it to a list of twelve leverage points with explanations and examples, for...
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  • Marmion Savage (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    dramatised by Tom Taylor under the title of Nine Points of the Law, as a comedietta in one act, was first performed at the Olympic on 11 April 1859, with...
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  • 2016, and is part of the Law & Order franchise. Created by René Balcer, the eight-episode first season, titled Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders...
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    Daniel Terry (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Nine Points of the Law he was at the Haymarket, 17 July, Mr. Precise, and in the ‘Green Man,’ 15 August, exhibited what was called a perfect piece of...
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    taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types. The origins and history of ideas associated with the Enneagram of Personality are disputed...
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  • 9 (redirect from Nine (number))
    9 (nine) is the natural number following 8 and preceding 10. Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape...
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    Norse cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws by the ancient North Germanic peoples. The topic encompasses concepts from Norse mythology...
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  • The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which...
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  • Horace Wigan (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    production of The Porter's Knot by John Oxenford, playing Smoothly Smirk. From 11 April 1859 he was in the original production of Nine Points of the Law by Tom...
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    Jovan Ristić (category Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
    taught by long experience that with the Powers nothing succeeds like self-help. Possession is nine points of the law. Ristić was able to deduct, if Serbia...
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    for a touchdown, the first points of the game for the Patriots, who eventually won the game 20–17. Law was voted to the Pro Bowl for the second consecutive...
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    Josh Giddey (category Australian expatriate basketball people in the United States)
    Giddey recorded 31 points, 10 assists, and nine rebounds in a 123–118 win over the New Orleans Pelicans, advancing the Thunder to the eighth-seed game....
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  • The Whole Nine Yards is a 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn. It was written by Mitchell Kapner and stars Bruce Willis, Matthew...
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