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The US Supreme Court has presided over numerous landmark cases, with many having a significant social, cultural and environmental impact on the United States. Here we provide an overview of the Supreme Court’s role, its members, and the various cases that have shaped our country. What Is the Supreme Court of the United States? The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the land. It was first assembled on February 1, 1790, and was established in Article III of the US Constitution....

Important Questions Begging to be Answered Unlike past novels, fans prepare for The Deathly Hallows knowing that a number of essential questions must be answered. The most pressing one, of course, is “who will live and who will die?” It was discovered in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that, according to a prophecy, neither Harry nor Lord Voldemort can live while the other continues to survive. Will Harry be able to defeat the world’s most powerful dark wizard, or will he share the same fate as his mother and father?...

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Twist Number 3:Adjournment A motion to suspend or adjourn the impeachment trial can be made at any time once the articles of impeachment reach the Senate. If a majority of senators (51 or more) approve such a motion, the trial would end without the need for a verdict. Twist Number 4:The Lieberman/Gorton Proposal Senators Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and Slade Gorton, R-Wash., have come up with a proposal that would allow for a vote after hearing arguments from both the House managers and the President’s counsel....

These are also known as Sabbath laws. They were passed to restrict or forbid business and recreation on the Sabbath, which is the Christian day of rest. One blue law in some states forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages before noon on Sundays. Rules based on custom or long usage that are usually not recorded as laws. They began in England. A phrase from the Magna Carta, the basic document of English law....

The Jewish calendar is reckoned from 3761 B.C.The Jewish New Year, called Rosh Hashanah, occurs on the first and second day of the Hebrew month Tishri, which can come in either September or October.The Islamic calendar is based on a lunar (moon) year of 354 days. It is calculated from the Hegira, in A.D. 622, and grouped in 30-year cycles. (The Hegira was the flight from Mecca by Muhammed, the founder of Islam, to escape persecution....

What Are My Chances of an Attack? In the U.S., your chances of getting killed by lightning are 30 times greater than dying of a shark attack. Bees, wasps, and snakes kill more people each year than sharks. Drowning, heart attacks, beach accidents resulting in spinal injury, sunburn, cuts from stepping on sea shells, dehydration, jellyfish stings, and traffic accidents going to or from the beach are all far more common than shark attacks....

Shortly before 1 a.m., Romney delivered his concession speech. “This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation,” he said. “The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this, we cannot risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people’s work. And we citizens also have to rise to the occasion....

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That same year, Marquis Converse produced the first shoe made just for basketball, called Converse All-Stars. In 1923, an Indiana hoops star named Chuck Taylor endorsed the shoes, and they became known as Chuck Taylor All-Stars. These are the best-selling basketball shoes of all time. Sneakers Go Global Sneakers went international in 1924. That’s when a German man named Adi Dassler created a sneaker that he named after himself: Adidas....

How is this possible? It’s because time, space, and motion are relative; that is, they look and feel different depending on different points of view. And we have Albert Einstein to thank for developing these theories and revealing new information about our universe. It’s All Relative Before Einstein’s theory of special relativity, scientists believed that space and time were fixed. Space was seen as a continuous expanse that spread out in all directions....