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  2. Chicago (bridge card game) - Wikipedia

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    Getting its name from the Standard Club of Chicago where it originated in the early 1960s, [1] [3] the game is well suited to club and home play. [4] While the auction and the play of the hand are the same as in rubber bridge, Chicago has the following unique features: A rubber consists of exactly four deals.

  3. Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia

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    When Colby retired, he recommended William Yolland as his successor, but he was considered too young and the less experienced Lewis Alexander Hall was appointed. [21] After a fire in the Tower of London, the headquarters of the survey was moved to Southampton taking over buildings previously occupied by a military orphanage (the Royal Military Asylum) in 1841, [22] [23] and Yolland was put in ...

  4. City of Chicago v. Fulton - Wikipedia

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    City of Chicago v. Fulton , 592 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the mere retention of estate property after the filing of a bankruptcy petition does not violate 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(3) , which operates as a "stay" of "any act" to "exercise control" over the property of the estate.

  5. Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court decision in Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892), reaffirmed that each state in its sovereign capacity holds title to all submerged lands within its borders and holds these lands in public trust. [1] This is a foundational case for the public trust doctrine.

  6. Raster Navigational Charts (NOAA) - Wikipedia

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    The charts are stored in BSB format. "[The BSB file format] is a proprietary format of BSB Electronic Charts, LLP (bought by MapTech, Inc.)." [1] Image manipulation tools such as GDAL can read the image information, but there also is georeferenced data in the navigational charts.

  7. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago

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    Justice Harlan argued that the concept of due process of law required fair compensation to be given for any private property seized by the state. In responding to the City of Chicago's claim that due process of law was served merely by allowing the railroad company's grievance to be heard, Harlan stated that satisfying legislative procedure alone is not enough to satisfy due process: "In ...

  8. The Chicago region's rail infrastructure was largely configured to serve transportation needs and demands at the time it was originally built more than a century ago. By the 1990s, many decades of modernization and consolidation within the freight and passenger railroad industries had drastically changed the operational demands being placed on ...

  9. Timeline of Southampton - Wikipedia

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    1855 – Southampton School of Art, [11] and the prison on Ascupart Street are established. 1856 – Netley Hospital, a.k.a. Royal Victoria Hospital, opens. 1860 – The Southampton Times newspaper begins publication. [14] 1861 – 10 September: Red Funnel ferries start operating ferry services between Southampton and Cowes on the Isle of Wight.