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  2. Presentism (historical analysis) - Wikipedia

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    In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they consider it a form of cultural bias, and believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter. [1]

  3. Cruel and unusual punishment - Wikipedia

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    It was found that no present-used method could fulfil these criteria and the unethical nature of capital punishment invalidates these principles, but that hypoxia, i.e. through inert gas asphyxiation (a method then not in use) held the most promise. [8]

  4. Burning of books and burying of scholars - Wikipedia

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    Sima Qian reports that the scholars were "keng, 坑", a word that he uses in several other places. The context in these places shows that the meaning is "to kill", not "to bury alive". The character in earlier texts meant "pit, moat" and then took on the meaning of "to trap and kill". Sima Qian used it to describe the annihilation of an enemy army.

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    But the backlog has declined over the past two years. In 2021, the state reached an unprecedented level of backlog cases with 191,708 pending criminal cases on court dockets.

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    Despite Trump's harsh words, Los Angeles officials say they haven't heard from the president-elect directly but have been in touch with members of his team and they expect Trump to visit the area ...

  8. List of Latin phrases (D) - Wikipedia

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    According to legend, the words spoken by the cardinal verifying that a newly-elected pope was a man, in a test employed after the reign of pope Joan. dura lex sed lex [the] law [is] harsh, but [it is the] law: A shortening of quod quidem perquam durum est, sed ita lex scripta est ("which indeed is extremely harsh, but thus was the law written").

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    awaken and awoken: Awaken is typically used to express waking in the present tense. Awoken is typically used to express waking in the past tense. [24] Awoken is the original "hard verb" inflection of "to wake", but through morphological leveling the soft form awakened has become more common. Standard: We must awaken the dragon.