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  2. Geneva Conventions - Wikipedia

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    The original document in single pages, 1864 [1] The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term Geneva Convention colloquially denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the ...

  3. Standard deviation - Wikipedia

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    A large standard deviation indicates that the data points can spread far from the mean and a small standard deviation indicates that they are clustered closely around the mean. For example, each of the three populations {0, 0, 14, 14}, {0, 6, 8, 14} and {6, 6, 8, 8} has a mean of 7. Their standard deviations are 7, 5, and 1, respectively.

  4. Eminem - Wikipedia

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    The album was released on November 5, by Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records and Interscope Records. Its standard version had 16 tracks and the deluxe version included a second disc with five additional tracks. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was Eminem's seventh album to debut atop the Billboard 200 and had the year's second-largest first-week sales.

  5. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The top grade, A, is given here for performance that exceeds the mean by more than 1.5 standard deviations, a B for performance between 0.5 and 1.5 standard deviations above the mean, and so on. Regardless of the absolute performance of the students, the best score in the group receives a top grade and the worst score receives a failing grade.

  6. Married Woman's Card Club - Wikipedia

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    The Married Woman's Card Club is an exclusive all-women society in Savannah, Georgia, established in 1893. [1] [2] It meets once a month, [2] on Tuesdays at 4.00 PM. The society is featured in John Berendt 's novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Clint Eastwood 's 1997 movie adaptation of the book .

  7. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    Winston Churchill MP, Trade Boards Bill, Hansard House of Commons (28 April 1909) vol 4, col 388 Modern minimum wage laws trace their origin to the Ordinance of Labourers (1349), which was a decree by King Edward III that set a maximum wage for laborers in medieval England. Edward, who was a wealthy landowner, was dependent, like his lords, on serfs to work the land. In the autumn of 1348, the ...

  8. Rabbi - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A rabbi ( / ˈræbaɪ /) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. [1] One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha —following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic (167 BCE – 73 CE) and Talmudic (70–640 CE ...

  9. The Standard-Times (New Bedford) - Wikipedia

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    The Standard-Times 's print circulation has fallen over 30% since 2006. E-sales, while increasing, have not offset this decline in circulation. Daily (Monday through Saturday) circulation for The Standard-Times averaged 31,629 in mid-2006, down slightly from the 33,047 reported earlier that year. By September 2010, circulation had fallen ...