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  2. Letter from Birmingham Jail - Wikipedia

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    The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come ...

  3. Valentine's Day - Wikipedia

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    In most Latin American countries—for example, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico—Saint Valentine's Day is known as Día de los Enamorados (Lovers' Day) or as Día del Amor y la Amistad (Love and Friendship Day). It is also common to see people perform "acts of appreciation" for their friends.

  4. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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    Details. The Reagan administration made Letter-size paper the norm for US federal forms in the early 1980s; previously, the smaller "official" Government Letter size, 8 by 10.5 inches (203.2 by 266.7 mm) (aspect ratio: 1.3125), was used in government, while 8.5-by-11-inch (215.9 by 279.4 mm) paper was standard in most other offices.

  5. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese [1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters. It originated in the telegraph age when telecommunication consisted only of short messages transmitted by hand over the telegraph wire.

  6. FDA warning letter - Wikipedia

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    A Warning Letter is one of the Agency's principal means of achieving prompt voluntary compliance with the Act. [1] While the FDA generally determines violations through its own inspections, they can also issue one based on evidence from state personnel. [2] The FDA considers a warning letter informal and advisory.

  7. Red letter day - Wikipedia

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    Legal. On red letter days, judges of the English High Court (King's Bench Division) wear, at sittings of the Court of Law, their scarlet robes (see court dress). Red letter days for these purposes are a fixed selection of saints' days (sometimes coinciding with the traditional start or end dates of the legal terms during which sittings of the High Court take place) and of national celebrations ...

  8. List of social fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia

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    List of social fraternities and sororities. Social or general fraternities and sororities, in the North American fraternity system, are those that do not promote a particular profession (as professional fraternities are) or discipline (such as service fraternities and sororities ). Instead, their primary purposes are often stated as the ...

  9. Global precedence - Wikipedia

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    Global precedence. Images and other stimuli contain both local features (details, parts) and global features (the whole). Precedence refers to the level of processing (global or local) to which attention is first directed. [1] Global precedence occurs when an individual more readily identifies the global feature when presented with a stimulus ...