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unusual facts about territorial ''liberties''



1210s in England

12 November - Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on the Magna Carta, in the King's name.

1927 Indiana Bituminous Strike

The senators, who included Senator Robert Wagner of New York, heard testimony from Rossiter miners, company officials, and Langham, and pointedly questioned the judge and company attorneys about the injunction's marker denial of civil liberties and free speech.

Bill Phipps

Phipps' views contrasted with those of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association, and conservative Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Mormon leaders who saw the issue as one of religious freedom.

Brendan Grace

Born in the heart of Dublin in 1951, Brendan was raised in the inner city Liberties neighborhood.

Catherine Itzin

The editor of Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties, a collection of essays published by Oxford University Press which explores the impact pornography has on the perception and treatment of women.

Christopher Hartley

In a letter to the directors of Tate & Lyle dated July 10, 2009, he asserted that human rights violations continue in the Dominican Republic, which include "daily and systematic disregard for fundamental human dignity in the forms of “statelessness” (and its inherent lack of civil liberties), human trafficking, extreme poverty, child labor, racial discrimination, lack of education and healthcare, and general squalor.

Civil liberties

The European Convention on Human Rights, to which almost all European countries belong (apart from Belarus), enumerates a number of civil liberties and is of varying constitutional force in different European states.

Civil Liberties Protection Officer

Civil Liberties Protection Officer is the title of a position under the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, created on December 7, 2005, with the appointment of Alex Joel by Director John Negroponte.

Conor Gearty

(with Keith Ewing) Freedom under Thatcher: Civil Liberties in Modern Britain (1990) Oxford University Press

David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk

In the House of Lords, he spoke on topics relating to civil liberties and privacy, and spoke out against the Identity Cards Act 2006 and new online copyright laws such as those contained in the Digital Economy Act 2010.

Dixie Cornell Gebhardt

In the center a soaring Eagle carries blue streamers in his beak which read "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Dixie Gebhardt cleverly signifies here that we are a part of this nation by combining our national bird with Iowa's state motto.

Dorothy Ehrlich

An accomplished spokesperson and writer, Ehrlich has been a frequent contributor to KQED Radio's Perspectives Series, the Daily Journal's "Taking Liberties" column, the San Francisco Chronicle's "Open Forum," and other publications.

Foster Auditorium

The scene was depicted (with artistic liberties taken) in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

Fourteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political liberties

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

In the short film series, Assassin's Creed: Lineage (a live-action short film set in the Assassin's Creed videogame franchise), the Duke's assassination is depicted with some liberties, with the protagonist Giovanni Auditore arriving only in time to see Lampugnani stab Sforza in the abdomen.

Harry Ward

Harry F. Ward (1873–1966), first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union

Hussein Ibish

He was a panelist at the Nation Institute forum, Patriot Games: Civil Liberties After September 11 (moderated by Phil Donahue); panelists also included Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Molly Ivins, Nadine Strossen and Elaine Jones.

India House

While the British Committee of Congress succeeded in calling the British public's attention to issues of civil liberties in India, it largely failed to bring about political change, prompting socialists such as Henry Hyndman to advocate a more radical approach.

Inter arma enim silent leges

In 1998 Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime suggested that "the least justified of the curtailments of civil liberty" were unlikely to be accepted by the courts in wars of the future.

Irishtown, Kilkenny

The city comprised parts of four parishes, and the new county covered the whole of each, with the area outside the borough forming the "liberties" of the city.

James O'Halloran

Grattan, Lord Charlemont, Ponsonby, Plunkett, and a few patriots, continued to protest against the sale of the liberties and free Constitution of Ireland.

Jim Dowling

On 1 September 2005, members of the Queensland police force arrested Dowling, alleging that he physically assaulted them while attending a public debate between Federal Liberal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton and civil liberties lawyer Terry O'Gorman on a national security identity card.

Kali

This is clear in the works of such contemporary artists as Charles Wish, and Tyeb Mehta, who sometimes take great liberties with the traditional, accepted symbolism, but still demonstrate a true reverence for the Shakta sect.

Liberty

In the United States Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, Justice William O. Douglas argued that liberties relating to personal relationships, such as marriage, have a unique primacy of place in the hierarchy of freedoms.

Long title

Short titles were subsequently given to many unrepealed Acts at later dates; for example, the Bill of Rights (1688 or 1689) was given that short title by the Short Titles Act 1896, having until then only been known formally known by its long title, An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from University of Nairobi and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Civil Liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Postage stamps and postal history of Tuscany

The image is based on the Renaissance sculpture by Donatello of a lion called the Marzocco which was originally commissioned for Pope Martin V and moved in 1812 to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence where it became a symbol of Florentine liberties.

Printing

Samuel Hartlib, who was exiled in Britain and enthusiastic about social and cultural reforms, wrote in 1641 that "the art of printing will so spread knowledge that the common people, knowing their own rights and liberties, will not be governed by way of oppression".

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

They were Daniel W. Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, to serve a six-year term as chair of the board; Ronald D. Rotunda, professor of law at George Mason University, to serve a four-year term as a member of the PCLOB; and Francis X. Taylor, a former member of the board, to a serve a two-year term.

Psychotropica

Sage had Süin most highly follow the works of Goblin and Tangerine Dream for inspiration, while pushing Süin to take maximum freedom and musical liberties within the genre to craft the ultimate "mind blowing" score for the ultimate "mind blowing" film.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

After the Council was formed on 19 October 1966, led by President Jim Kelly, the Council began establishing itself as an important civil liberties group in Queensland.

R v Thomas

Gerard Henderson said that the case "highlights an emerging division within democracies" between civil liberties advocates on the one hand and "a democracy defence lobby, which maintains that radical Islamism poses a real and present danger to Western nations" on the other.

Ray Ginger

Soon after basic training, Military Intelligence plucked him out of the swarming pool of draftees and sent him for special training in the Japanese language at the University of Michigan, where he met his first wife, now the nationally-known civil-liberties lawyer Ann Fagan Ginger.

Richard Vatz

Vatz has won the Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties.

Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford Institute, a conservative civil-liberties organization named for Rutherford

Solís Uprising

Solís and his collaborators sought to reclaim the liberties and rights abolished by Narváez and sought a more just treatment for Galicia; the University of Santiago de Compostela reconstituted the Batallón Literario, the student battalion that had last confronted the forces of Napoleonic France in the Peninsular War, viewed in Galicia as throughout Spain as a war of Spanish independence.

Sprint football

Antonio Buehler, civil liberties activist battling police corruption, Founder of Peaceful Streets Project

Spying on Democracy

Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance is a book by Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, and co-host of Pacifica's WBAI weekly civil liberties radio program, "Law and Disorder."

Stadtluft macht frei

The medieval concept of liberty was largely confined to traditional collective rights and privileges based in custom and precedent and often expressed in territorial liberties such as, to take English examples, the Liberties of the Tower of London or the Liberties of the Savoy.

The Liberties, Dublin

In its long 78-minute form 'The Liberties' includes 15 short films featuring local butchers, green grocers, boxing clubs, stonemasons, street traders, evangelists, animators, tailors and local residents, including Oscar-winning actor, Brenda Fricker.

The Prodigal

The story is loosely based on Jesus Christ's parable of the prodigal son, from the Biblical New Testament Gospels, although considerable liberties are taken with the source material, chief among them being the addition of a female lead in the form of the priestess of Astarte, Samarra (Turner).

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse is a 26 half-hour television animated series loosely inspired by the real life Eliot Ness, and his group of agents colloquially known as The Untouchables, and their investigation into the real life gangster Al Capone, although (as with past adaptations) it does take some liberties with history.

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney

Alan Atkinson wrote in The Europeans in Australia (Oxford University Press, 1997): "Townshend was an anomaly in the British Cabinet, and his ideas were in some ways old-fashioned... He had long been interested in the way in which the empire might be a medium for British liberties, traditionally understood."

Throne of Jade

Temeraire, after much deliberation, decides to return to Britain, partially out of love for Laurence and partially to attempt to bring the greater civil liberties of the Middle Kingdom back to the Commonwealth.

Ul de Rico

de Rico's story was a simplified, truncated version of the full play cycle, which took several creative liberties, the most noticeable of which was the use of the three Norns as narrators throughout the story, rather than merely for Götterdämmerung, as in the original.

Vedanta Resources

In respect of bauxite mines at Lanjigarh, Orissa, public interest litigations were filed in 2004 by Indian non-government organisations led by the People's Union for Civil Liberties to the supreme court sub-committee regarding the potential environmental impact of the mines.

Walter Duranty

In 2003, in response to an international campaign launched by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Pulitzer Board began a renewed inquiry and the Times hired Mark von Hagen, professor of Russian history at Columbia University, to review Duranty's work.

Zorro's Fighting Legion

The story takes a few liberties with Zorro's official timeline: it takes place in Mexico instead of Alta California; Zorro wears a masquerade mask, rather than the traditional bandana; the characters Don Alejandro Vega (Don Diego's father) and Bernardo are absent; and Zorro's horse, Tornado, was changed to white (much like Kaiketsu Zorro).


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