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  2. Strange laws - Wikipedia

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    A lot of purportedly strange laws within European Union law do not actually exist, or are wildly exaggerated; these are referred to as Euromyths. Misrepresented Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 , sometimes referred to in the media as the 'bendy banana law': the alleged ban on curved bananas is a long-standing, famous, and stereotypical ...

  3. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Simply put this law states that evolution is not reversible; the "law" is regarded as a generalisation as exceptions may exist. [3] [4] [5] Dulong–Petit law states the classical expression for the specific heat capacity of a crystal due to its lattice vibrations. Named for Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit.

  4. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-nine Jim Crow laws were passed in Texas. The state enacted one anti-segregation law in 1871 barring separation of the races on public carriers. This law was repealed in 1889. 1865: Juneteenth [Constitution] The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are ...

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    A house in California, built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark. Northeast Greenland National Park The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent ...

  6. State law (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The law of most of the states is based on the common law of England; the notable exception is Louisiana, whose civil law is largely based upon French and Spanish law.The passage of time has led to state courts and legislatures expanding, overruling, or modifying the common law; as a result, the laws of any given state invariably differ from the laws of its sister states.

  7. Talk:Strange laws - Wikipedia

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    If there's a law, then there must be an authority for that law. There isn't. this page has what I suspect is the kernel of the story (the 1403 prohibition on Welsh remaining in Chester over nigh) but even that isn't the way the story is now reported. Clearly any such law would have been superseded by the Laws in Wales Acts of Henry VIII.

  8. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    Although sometimes counted among Jim Crow laws of the South, statutes such as anti-miscegenation laws were also passed by other states. Anti-miscegenation laws were not repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) in a unanimous ruling Loving v. Virginia (1967).

  9. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation.Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 118 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.