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  2. School corporal punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Texas, teachers are permitted to paddle children and to use "any other physical force" to control children in the name of discipline; [14] in Alabama, the rules are more explicit: teachers are permitted to use a "wooden paddle approximately 24 inches (610 mm) in length, 3 inches (76 mm) wide and 0.5 inches (13 mm) thick." [15]

  3. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.

  4. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    The section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code. For example, in Bluebook style, "Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p" becomes "16 U.S.C. § 580p". [4] The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow (or paragraph sign), ¶, to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document.

  5. English Teacher (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    English Teacher is an American comedy drama television series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez for FX. Alvarez stars as Evan Marquez, a high school teacher, who finds himself at the intersection of personal, political, and professional aspects of working at a high school. The series premiered on September 2, 2024, on FX. [1]

  6. Sexual harassment in education in the United States

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    When a female teacher is the perpetrator of sexual harassment to a male student, there are arguments that the female teachers are given lighter sentences and the male victims are given lower amounts of compensation due to the reasoning that teenage males would be willing to have sexual encounters with older, female teachers as a response to ...

  7. Astrological sign - Wikipedia

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    Each sign can be divided into three 10° sectors known as decans or decanates, though these have fallen into disuse. The first decanate is said to be most emphatically of its own nature and is ruled by the sign ruler. [43] The next decanate is sub-ruled by the planet ruling the next sign in the same triplicity.

  8. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The edition's one-billionth edit was made on 13 January 2021 by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Steven Pruitt) who as of that date is the user with the highest number of edits on the English Wikipedia, at over four million. [6] Currently, there are 6,885,009 articles created with 926,342 files.

  9. Pupil-teacher - Wikipedia

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    Pupil teacher was a training program in wide use before the twentieth century, as an apprentice system for teachers. With the emergence in the beginning of the ...