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  2. Baron Franz von der Trenck - Wikipedia

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    Trenck was born into a military noble family which originated from Pomerania on 1 January 1711, in Reggio in south Italy, where his father Johann Heinrich von der Trenck served as an Austrian officer. Although born in Italy, Trenk was actually a Prussian with Austrian citizenship, and with large estates in Croatia, more precisely Slavonia.

  3. Sugar Act - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in Africa, for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an act in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (initituled, An act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty's sugar colonies in America) for applying the produce of such duties, and of the ...

  4. Criminal sentencing in Canada - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of sentencing principles found in sections 718.1 and 718.2 of the Criminal Code: [6] The sentence must be proportionate to the nature of the offence. The sentence must be reduced or increased depending on the mitigating and aggravating factors.

  5. Lawmakers criticize a big pay raise for themselves before ...

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    During the House's debate, Republican Rep. Chuck Smith, of southeastern Kansas, backed the pay raise by praising the work of the chairs of the House budget committee and a committee on K-12 spending.

  6. Phonemic restoration effect - Wikipedia

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    The phonemic restoration effect is the brain's way of resolving those imperfections in our speech. Without this effect interfering with our language processing, there would be a greater need for much more accurate speech signals and human speech could require much more precision. For experiments, white noise is necessary because it takes the ...

  7. An Act to eliminate the 2013 statutory pay adjustment for ...

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    The Bill also would eliminate the delayed statutory pay adjustment contained in the 2013 Continuing Appropriations Resolution that was permitted to take effect with the first applicable pay period beginning after March 27, 2013. The Bill would only prevent an across-the-board increase to all federal employees' pay.

  8. History of sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    History of sentence spacing. The history of sentence spacing is the evolution of sentence spacing conventions from the introduction of movable type in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg to the present day. Typesetting in all European languages enjoys a long tradition of using spaces of varying widths for the express purpose of enhancing readability.

  9. Effect of taxes and subsidies on price - Wikipedia

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    Taxation. Taxes and subsidies change the price of goods and, as a result, the quantity consumed. There is a difference between an ad valorem tax and a specific tax or subsidy in the way it is applied to the price of the good. In the end levying a tax moves the market to a new equilibrium where the price of a good paid by buyers increases and ...