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    Lynch Law in all its Phases Gutenberg eBook Wood, Amy Louise, "They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama", Southern Spaces, April 27, 2009. Wood, Joe, Ugly Water...
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    same-sex sexual acts: Iran and Afghanistan. The death penalty is officially law, but generally not practiced, in Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia (in the...
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  • in the United States was often codified into law. For example, in many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they...
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  • Coyote Ugly is a 2000 American comedy-drama film based on the Coyote Ugly Saloon chain. It was directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
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  • Anti-miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage...
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  • European colonial labor and social practices, the Scramble for Africa, Jim Crow laws in the United States, the activities of the Native Land Court in New Zealand...
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  • emigration peaked between 1980 and 1982 at 53,000 persons, with the breakdown of law and order, an increase in crime in the rural areas, and the provocative attitude...
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  • Former US Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia wrote in a 2021 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy article that cancel culture is a form of free speech, and...
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    than simply outlawing this type of mass slaughter. He also thought that the law against genocide could promote more tolerant and pluralistic societies. His...
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  • Report. No. 142. Southern Poverty Law Center. "Pamela Geller & Stop Islamization of America". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 27 June 2011. Siemaszko...
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