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  2. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Changing the Name of the Santa Barbara National Forest, California, to Los Padres National Forest December 3, 1936 2471 1672 7502 Withdrawal of Public Land for Administrative Site (California) December 3, 1936 2471 1673 7503 Amending and Correcting Description of Boundaries of Kuwaaohe Military Reservation, Hawaii December 3, 1936 2472 1674 7504

  3. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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    Civil service: During the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD), the xiaolian system of recruiting government officials through formal recommendations was the chief method of filling bureaucratic posts, although there was an Imperial Academy to train potential candidates for office and some offices required its candidates to pass formal written tests ...

  4. Sabah - Wikipedia

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    The mobile telecommunications in Sabah are mostly use 4G and 3G and there is also a free rural Wi-Fi services provided by the federal government known as the Kampung Tanpa Wayar 1Malaysia (KTW) although Malaysia's government-provided public internet speeds are among the slower than many other countries. [340] [341]

  5. Human rights in China - Wikipedia

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    Human rights groups and foreign governments have heavily criticized the PRC's use of the death penalty for a variety of reasons, including its application for non-violent offences, allegations of the use of torture to extract confessions, legal proceedings that do not meet international standards, and the government's failure to publish ...

  6. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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    In the same report, it states that the Madras and Bombay presidencies totaled 635 instances of sati over the same ten-year period. [177] The 1829 missionary report does not provide its sources and acknowledges that "no correct idea can be formed of the number of murders occasioned by suttees", then states that some of the statistics are based ...

  7. Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    [348] Instead, as Klostermaier notes, in their application in Vedic rituals they become magical sounds, "means to an end." [ note 27 ] In the Brahmanical perspective, the sounds have their own meaning, mantras are considered "primordial rhythms of creation", preceding the forms to which they refer. [ 348 ]