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  2. Anti-literacy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1863 painting of a man reading the Emancipation Proclamation.. Educators and slaves in the South found ways to both circumvent and challenge the law. John Berry Meachum, for example, moved his school out of St. Louis, Missouri when that state passed an anti-literacy law in 1847, and re-established it as the Floating Freedom School on a steamship on the Mississippi River, which was beyond the ...

  3. Reading Railroad Co. v. Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Reading Railroad Co. v. Pennsylvania, 82 U.S. (15 Wall.) 232 (1872), often known as the State Freight Tax Case, was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the state of Pennsylvania violated the U.S. Constitution by imposing unjust taxes on interstate commerce.

  4. Escape from Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Escape from Freedom is a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart [1] in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

  5. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934.

  6. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  7. Theophany - Wikipedia

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    Peter Paul Rubens' Death of Semele, caused by the Theophany of Zeus without a mortal disguise. Theophany (Ancient Greek: θεοφάνεια, romanized: theopháneia, lit. ...

  8. Ken Olin - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Edward Olin (born July 30, 1954) is an American actor, television director, and producer. As an actor, Olin is known for his role as Michael Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama nomination in 1990.

  9. John Kingsley Read - Wikipedia

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    John Kingsley Read (18 April 1936 – 18 September 1985) was a British fascist politician and Holocaust denier.He was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1974 until 1976, when he founded the National Party.