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  2. Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia

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    The person who performs the act is presumed to have acted in self-defense: 1° when repelling, by night, the entry by break-in, violence or trickery in an inhabited place; 2° when defending himself against the authors of robbery or looting executed with violence. Germany. German law permits self-defense against an unlawful attack.

  3. Gong farmer - Wikipedia

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    Gong farmer (also gongfermor, gongfermour, gong-fayer, gong-fower or gong scourer) was a term that entered use in Tudor England to describe someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits. The word "gong" was used for both a privy and its contents. As the work was considered unclean and off-putting to the public, gong ...

  4. Mont-Saint-Michel - Wikipedia

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    Historically, Mont-Saint-Michel was the Norman counterpart of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, UK, which was given to the Benedictines, the religious order of Mont-Saint-Michel, by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. The two mounts share the same tidal island characteristics and a similar conical shape, though Mont-Saint-Michel is much taller.

  5. The Lost Christmas Eve - Wikipedia

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    The Lost Christmas Eve is the fourth studio album by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on October 12, 2004, and is the last album in their "Christmas trilogy", with Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996) and The Christmas Attic (1998) coming before it. All three albums, as well as their The Ghosts of Christmas Eve DVD, were featured ...

  6. Order of the Garter - Wikipedia

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    The Order of the Garter is dedicated to the image and arms of Saint George, England's patron saint . Appointments are at the Sovereign 's sole discretion, typically made in recognition of national contribution, service to the Crown, or for distinguished personal service to the Monarch. [2]

  7. Synchronicity II - Wikipedia

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    Synchronicity II. " Synchronicity II " is a song by the Police, and the third single from their album Synchronicity. Written by lead singer and bassist Sting, it was released as a single in the UK and the US by A&M Records, reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart [4] and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1983. [5]

  8. The Twelve Dancing Princesses - Wikipedia

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    The soldier does not tell the king of his discovery right away, and follows and spies on the twelve princesses on the second and third nights, with everything happening just as before, except that on the third night, the soldier carries away a cup as a fourth token of where he has been. When the time comes for him to declare the princesses ...

  9. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 285311. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood ...