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" Right Now " is a song written by the group Van Halen for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The song reflects on living for the moment and not being afraid of making a change.
In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials. Named for the U.S ...
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. [1] Rights are an important concept in law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology. The history of social conflicts has often ...
This timeline highlights milestones in women's suffrage in the United States, particularly the right of women to vote in elections at federal and state levels.
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law at all levels of government. The Fourteenth Amendment was a response to issues affecting freed slaves following the American Civil ...
The Best of Free: All Right Now is a 1991 album by the band Free. All the tracks on this album were remixed by Bob Clearmountain. [1] On 18 February 1991, the album was awarded a silver certification by the BPI, [2] for UK album sales of over 60,000 units. [3] The album entered the UK Albums Chart on 2 March 1991, it reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 9 weeks. [4] Initially the plan ...
Thorium is a highly reactive and electropositive metal. With a standard reduction potential of −1.90 V for the Th4+ /Th couple, it is somewhat more electropositive than zirconium or aluminium. [50] Finely divided thorium metal can exhibit pyrophoricity, spontaneously igniting in air. [11] When heated in air, thorium turnings ignite and burn with a brilliant white light to produce the dioxide ...
With the exception of non-derogable human rights (international conventions class the right to life, the right to be free from slavery, the right to be free from torture and the right to be free from retroactive application of penal laws as non-derogable), [117] the UN recognises that human rights can be limited or even pushed aside during ...