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  2. Commonwealth v. Aves - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth v. Aves , 35 Mass. 193 (1836), was a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of transportation of slaves to free states. In August 1836, Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that slaves brought to Massachusetts "for any temporary purpose of business or pleasure" were entitled to freedom.

  3. Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Const. amend. XIV. Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, 442 U.S. 256 (1979), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision upheld the constitutionality of a state law, giving hiring preference to veterans over nonveterans. [1] The law was challenged as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the ...

  4. Dominica - Wikipedia

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    Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, the northernmost of the Windward Islands (though it is sometimes considered the southernmost of the Leeward Islands ). The size of the country is about 289.5 square miles (750 km 2) and it is about 29 miles (47 km) long and 16 miles (26 km) wide.

  5. Commonwealth v. Twitchell - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth v. Twitchell, 416 Mass. 114, 617 N.E.2d 609 (1993), was the most prominent of a series of criminal cases, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which parents who were members of the Christian Science church were prosecuted for the deaths of children whose medical conditions had been treated only by Christian Science prayer.

  6. MassINC - Wikipedia

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    MassINC. The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, or " MassINC ," is registered as a non-profit 501 (c) organization that functions as a nonpartisan, evidence-based think tank. [2] [3] Its mission is to develop a public agenda for Massachusetts that promotes the growth and vitality of the middle class.

  7. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms.

  8. Logarithm - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation. That means that the logarithm of a number x to the base b is the exponent to which b must be raised to produce x. For example, since 1000 = 103, the logarithm base of 1000 is 3, or log10 (1000) = 3.

  9. India - Wikipedia

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    IN. Internet TLD. .in ( others) India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.