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  2. Pass law - Wikipedia

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    Initially applied to African men, attempts to enforce pass laws on women in the 1910s and 1950s sparked significant protests. Pass laws remained a key aspect of the country's apartheid system until their effective termination in 1986. The pass document used to enforce these laws was derogatorily referred to as the dompas (Afrikaans: dompas, lit.

  3. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]

  4. Dompas - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Dompas

  5. Libellus responsionum - Wikipedia

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    This is not unusual since the work is a letter and Gregory was not in the habit of titling his many letters. " Libellus responsionum " is the name given the letter by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica , [ 14 ] and most modern commentators translate Bede's nomenclature as "Little book of answers" or "Little book of responses".

  6. Form letter - Wikipedia

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    A form letter is a letter written from a template, rather than being specially composed for a specific recipient.The most general kind of form letter consists of one or more regions of boilerplate text interspersed with one or more substitution placeholders.

  7. Letras y figuras - Wikipedia

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    Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...

  8. So Long a Letter - Wikipedia

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    So Long a Letter (French: Une si longue lettre) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. [1] It was her first novel. Its theme is the condition of women in Western African society. As the novel begins, Ramatoulaye Fall is beginning a letter to her lifelong friend Aissatou Bâ.

  9. Alphabet soup (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet soup is a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms, named for a common dish made from alphabet pasta.Its use dates at least as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt's alphabet agencies of the New Deal. [1]