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  2. Titanic - Wikipedia

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    Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Titanic, operated by the White Star Line, was carrying passengers and mail. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew ...

  3. Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The incorporation status of the Excessive Bail Clause is unclear. In Schilb v. Kuebel , 404 U.S. 357 (1971), the Court stated in dicta : "Bail, of course, is basic to our system of law, and the Eighth Amendment's proscription of excessive bail has been assumed to have application to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment."

  4. Article 370 of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    Article 370 of the Indian constitution [a] gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a region located in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and part of the larger region of Kashmir which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since 1947. [4] [5] Jammu and Kashmir was administered by India as a state from ...

  5. Wish (company) - Wikipedia

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    Wish.com. Wish is an American online e-commerce platform for transactions between sellers and buyers. Wish was founded in 2010 by Piotr Szulczewski (former CEO) and Danny Zhang (former CTO). Wish is currently operated by ContextLogic Inc. in San Francisco, United States, pending the completion of a sale to Qoo10 initiated in February 2024.

  6. E-commerce - Wikipedia

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    E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems.

  7. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time ), metre (m, length ), kilogram (kg, mass ), ampere (A, electric current ), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature ), mole (mol, amount of substance ), and candela (cd, luminous intensity ).

  8. Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 - Wikipedia

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    The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 ( CAA) was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing an accelerated pathway to Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who arrived in India by 2014. The eligible minorities were stated as ...

  9. Amin al-Husseini - Wikipedia

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    Nazi Germany and. Kingdom of Italy. (1941–1945) Mohammed Amin al-Husseini ( Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897 [a] – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. [5] Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, [6] who trace their origins to the ...