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  2. List of demonyms for US states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31] Massachusettsian, [32] Massachusite, [33] [34] Masshole (derogatory [35] as an exonym; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [36]) Michigan: Michiganian

  3. BAME Labour - Wikipedia

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    After black socialist societies were defunct for over a decade, the Black Socialist Society [2] was reconstituted into BAME Labour in 2007. Ahmad Shahzad was elected its first chair and the name was changed with Chuka Umunna, BAME Labour Executive Member at the time, writing that the rationale was that "'black' is no longer used as a political term as widely as it once was" and that "different ...

  4. Sole Survivor Policy - Wikipedia

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    The Sole Survivor Policy or United States Department of Defense Directive 1315.15 "Special Separation Policies for Survivorship" describes a set of regulations in the United States military, partially stipulated by law, that are designed to protect members of a family from the draft during peacetime or wartime if they have already lost family members to military service.

  5. Bame - Wikipedia

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    Bame or BAME may refer to: Black, Asian and minority ethnic, a UK demographic; Bamê, a village in China; Bame, in the list of cities and towns in Arunachal Pradesh; Bame Monrovia, a football club in Liberia

  6. Cousin marriage law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Out-of-state marriages by state's residents void All out-of-state marriages void First-cousin-once-removed marriage allowed Half-cousin marriage allowed Adopted-cousin marriage allowed Alabama [6] [7] Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Alaska [8] [9] Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Arizona [10] [11] [12] Only if both parties are 65 or older, or one is ...

  7. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a newsagent or general corner shop run by a person of Pakistani or other South Asian origin. No longer considered an acceptable term; edited out of repeat showings of an episode of Only Fools and Horses. Not to be confused with "packie", used in some areas of the US such as New England, short for "package store", meaning "liquor store".

  8. Surname - Wikipedia

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    A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

  9. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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    It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of African ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent , the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status ...