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    Look up vagrancy  or vagabond in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income...
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    Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The...
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  • Vagrancy Act may refer to: Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds Act 1530, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds...
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  • Look up vagrant or vagrancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vagrant is a person who lives without a home or regular employment and wanders from place...
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    The Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales...
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  • by the Black Codes. The defining feature of the Black Codes was broad vagrancy law, which allowed local authorities to arrest freedpeople for minor infractions...
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  • The Vagrancy Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old and older run over a distance of 6+1⁄2...
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  • Greaser Act (category Vagrancy laws)
    The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in California, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its anti-vagrancy...
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  • Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Vagrancy was a bay filly born in 1939 out of Valkyr by Man o' War. She raced for Belair...
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    What is Called Vagrancy (French: Ce que l'on appelle le vagabondage) is an early oil on canvas painting by Belgian painter Alfred Stevens. This painting...
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    atypical direction have been called pseudo-vagrancy migrators. Some species are more prone to pseudo-vagrancy migration: yellow-breasted bunting, for example...
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    The Vagrancy Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 39) was a piece of legislation in England and Wales that criminalised men who lived off the earnings of prostitution...
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    The great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures...
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    PMID 10085262. Thorup, Kasper (2004). "Reverse migration as a cause of vagrancy" (PDF). Bird Study. 51 (3): 228–238. Bibcode:2004BirdS..51..228T. doi:10...
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    The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory...
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    The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and North Africa, and winters...
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    Antigone canadensis USFWS Recording Problems playing this file? See media help. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of...
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    Loitering (category Vagrancy laws)
    "loitering with intent". The Vagrancy Act 1898 was passed, then both were repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The Vagrancy Act 1824 permits in section...
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    The ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) is a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. The scientific name is derived...
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    Tracy Walker (born 1964) is an American serial killer who murdered three homeless people in Rancho Dominguez, California from 2020 to 2021. Having previously...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A skid row is a part of a city known for high vagrancy and poor maintenance. Skid Row may also refer to: Skid Row (Irish band)...
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    The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae)...
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    of Charles V. Urban and rural delinquency—linked to phenomena such as vagrancy, gambling, larceny, pimping and false begging—as well as the nobiliary...
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    The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other...
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    The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin...
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    declared she was a beggar and should be taken to Bristol and tried for vagrancy. During her imprisonment, a Portuguese sailor named Manuel Eynesso (or...
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    Snow goose (section Vagrancy)
    The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) is a species of goose native to North America. Both white and dark morphs exist, the latter often known as blue goose...
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    The black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), also known as the black-browed mollymawk, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae;...
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    The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost...
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    traveling carnival and working as a lumberjack in Canada. He was arrested for vagrancy in the Deep South, and served a 30-day assignment on a chain gang. In 1947...
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