• Wooden v. United States, 595 U.S. ___ (2022), was a Supreme Court of the United States case dealing with the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). In a unanimous...
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    SS United States is a retired ocean liner built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the...
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    Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau...
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    Guru Guru, The Black Angels and many more. Wooden Shjips (2007) Dos (2009) West (2011) Back to Land (2013) V. (2018) Vol. 1 (2008) Vol. 2 (2010) Self-released...
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    of the land that the United States of America is located on. At its core, it includes peoples indigenous to the lower 48 states plus Alaska; it may additionally...
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    The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. During this presidential election year, the president and vice...
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    World War II in 1942, he joined the United States Navy. He served until 1946 and left the service as a lieutenant. Wooden coached two years at Dayton High...
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    Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Outside the country, it is sometimes called American...
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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...
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    the United States. These dolls were sold undressed. Children would then make their clothing from scraps of fabric. Other similarly-constructed wooden dolls...
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    On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of then–U.S. President Donald Trump in...
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  • This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Roberts Court, the tenure of Chief Justice John Roberts...
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    The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former...
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  • Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western nations. Polls indicate...
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  • natural heritage. The United States accepted the convention on December 7, 1973. There are 26 World Heritage Sites in the United States, with a further 17...
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    Armed Career Criminal Act (category United States federal criminal legislation)
    not qualify as violent felonies for the purposes of the ACCA. In Wooden v. United States (2022), the Supreme Court ruled that for purposes of considering...
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  • United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster (208 F. Supp. 99 – Dist. Court, D. Nevada 1962) is a United States District Court for the District...
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    Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved November 1, 2021. "2021 Term Opinions Relating to Orders". Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved November...
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    than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies...
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    of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), page 459 [5] Railroads and Canals of the United States of America...
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    Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved November 1, 2021. "2021 Term Opinions Relating to Orders". Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved November...
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    Croquet (category Sports originating in the United Kingdom)
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    George Washington, the first president of the United States, lost all but one of his teeth by the time he was inaugurated, and had at least four sets...
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    count electoral votes to formalize Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States Presidential Election. By the end of the month, the Federal Bureau of...
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    civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded...
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  • United States v. Throckmorton (98 U.S. 61) is an 1878 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on civil procedure, specifically res judicata, in cases heard...
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    Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement...
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  • United States v. Dunn, 480 U.S. 294 (1987), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision relating to the open fields doctrine limiting the Fourth Amendment of the...
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    The United States Congress authorized the original six frigates of the United States Navy with the Naval Act of 1794 on March 27, 1794, at a total cost...
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