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  2. List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

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    Albany County Jail: No Longer In use (2019) [2] Albany, New York: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE: New York State Commission of Correction 40 (2007) Albany County Jail: In use (2007) Laramie, Wyoming: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE 14 (2007) Albuquerque Regional Correctional Center (Bernalillo County Detention Center) In use (2009) Albuquerque, New Mexico ...

  3. Four occupations - Wikipedia

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    A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...

  4. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Goochland County: Closed April 1, 2011 Keen Mountain Correctional Center: Oakwood: 879 Lawrenceville Correctional Center: Lawrenceville: 1,555 Operated by GEO Group as Virginia's only private state prison, until Aug. 1, 2024, when the State took it over. [4] Lunenburg Correctional Center: Victoria: 1,200 Marion Correctional Treatment Center ...

  5. American gentry - Wikipedia

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    John Tayloe II of Mount Airy Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. The families of Virginia (see First Families of Virginia) who formed the Virginia gentry class, such as General Robert E. Lee's ancestors, were among the earliest settlers in Virginia. Lee's family of Stratford Hall was among the oldest of the Virginia gentry class.

  6. An American pastor held in a Chinese jail for nearly two ...

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    A pastor who the United States says was wrongfully detained in a Chinese prison for nearly two decades has been released, according to the State Department, ending a case that the Biden ...

  7. List of cities and counties in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    New Kent County was established in 1654 from York County, Virginia. Kent County, England: 26,134: 210 sq mi (544 km 2) Northampton County: 131: Eastville: 1634: Original county of the Colony under England, initially named Accomac Shire. In 1642, it was renamed Northampton County. However, in 1663, Northampton County was divided into two counties.

  8. Landed gentry in China - Wikipedia

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    The "gentry", or "landed gentry" in China was the elite who held privileged status through passing the Imperial exams, which made them eligible to hold office. These literati, or scholar-officials , ( shenshi 紳士 or jinshen 縉紳), also called 士紳 shishen "scholar gentry" or 鄉紳 xiangshen "local gentry", held a virtual monopoly on ...

  9. Gentry - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese gentry: studies on their role in nineteenth-century Chinese society (1955) online; Chuzo, Ichiko; "The role of the gentry: an hypothesis." in China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900–1913 ed. by Mary C. Wright (1968) pp: 297–317. Miller, Harry. State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572–1644 (Springer, 2008).