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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 ...
Isaac Bonewits's laws of magic are synthesized from a multitude of belief systems from around the world, collected in order to explain and categorize magical beliefs within a cohesive framework. Joule's laws are heat laws related to electricity and to gasses, named for James Prescott Joule .
It may be 2021, but some of the antiquated and downright bizarre laws that remain in place around the world (or that have recently been enacted) would make you think otherwise. From bans on what ...
A street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages. Grūtas Park: Alternatively known as Stalin World, this park answers the little-asked question of "what should we do with all these Soviet-era statues and monuments from our oppressive past?" Won its creator, mushroom magnate Viliumas Malinauskas, the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize.
Based on Irish law before 1921, in turn, based on English common law. Palau: Based on law of the United States. Pakistan: Based on English common law, with some provisions of Islamic law. [33] Papua New Guinea: Based on English common law and customary laws of its more than 750 different cultural and language groups. Saint Kitts and Nevis
Establishes peace between colonial settlers of Barbados and the English Commonwealth over Barbados's right to trade with Spanish controlled Netherlands among other demands. Results in establishing one of the first parliaments in the new world and the third oldest in the British Commonwealth: 1653 Treaty of Stettin (1653)
da Vinci's law (after Leonardo da Vinci, actually several laws; like in fluid mechanics, proportion, friction, of free fall (which was wrong)) Galileo's law of free fall Pythagoras' law: When the tension on a string remains the same but the length L is varied, the period of the vibration is proportional to L (after the guy with the rectangular ...
A street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages. Grūtas Park: Alternatively known as Stalin World, this park answers the little-asked question of "what should we do with all these Soviet-era statues and monuments from our oppressive past?" Won its creator, mushroom magnate Viliumas Malinauskas, the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize.