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  2. Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia

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    The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing, the Congo Free State —the location of the large and economically important Congo River ...

  3. LGBTQ rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Blocked (state board of medicine rule) The state board of medicine rule took effect on March 16, 2023. [226] [227] Additionally, on May 17, 2023, Governor DeSantis signed a ban into law, and it took effect immediately. It applies only to new patients, not those who were already receiving gender-affirming care. [228]

  4. Case citation - Wikipedia

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    United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States. Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.

  5. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  6. 2000 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    None has won Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, or West Virginia since 1996. Virginia has supported the Democratic nominee in every presidential election since 2008. [132] But every winning Republican presidential ticket has carried all the other ten former Confederate states in every 21st-century presidential election.

  7. Yoruba people - Wikipedia

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    In the documents dating from 1816 to 1850, Yorubas constituted 69.1% of all slaves whose ethnic origins were known, constituting 82.3% of all slaves from the Bight of Benin. The proportion of slaves from West-Central Africa (Angola – Congo) dropped drastically to just 14.7%.