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    Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds (archaically also: vagabones)...
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    Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The...
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  • Vagrancy Act may refer to: Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds Act 1530, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds...
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    The Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales...
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  • by the Black Codes. The defining feature of the Black Codes was broad vagrancy law, which allowed local authorities to arrest freedpeople for minor infractions...
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  • The Vagrancy Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old and older run over a distance of 6+1⁄2...
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  • Look up vagrant or vagrancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vagrant is a person who lives without a home or regular employment and wanders from place...
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  • Greaser Act (category Vagrancy laws)
    The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in California, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its anti-vagrancy...
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    The Vagrancy Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 39) was a piece of legislation in England and Wales that criminalised men who lived off the earnings of prostitution...
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    was later dropped) and lewd vagrancy. On June 17, municipal judge Adolph Alexander dismissed the charges of lewd vagrancy against Talman and the others...
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    Loitering (category Vagrancy laws)
    "loitering with intent". The Vagrancy Act 1898 was passed, then both were repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The Vagrancy Act 1824 permits in section...
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    The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory...
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    What is Called Vagrancy (French: Ce que l'on appelle le vagabondage) is an early oil on canvas painting by Belgian painter Alfred Stevens. This painting...
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    Antigone canadensis USFWS Recording Problems playing this file? See media help. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of...
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    In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and Urban...
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    The ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) is a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. The scientific name is derived...
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    The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and North Africa, and winters...
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    The great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures...
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    The common gull or sea mew (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Palearctic. The closely related short-billed gull is sometimes included...
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    The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other...
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  • Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Vagrancy was a bay filly born in 1939 out of Valkyr by Man o' War. She raced for Belair...
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    The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae)...
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    traveling carnival and working as a lumberjack in Canada. He was arrested for vagrancy in the Deep South, and served a 30-day assignment on a chain gang. In 1947...
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    From the 14th to the 16th century, homelessness was perceived of as a "vagrancy problem" and legislative responses to the problem were predicated upon...
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    The northern waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) is a species of ground-feeding migratory New World warbler of the genus Parkesia. It breeds in the northern...
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    The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A skid row is a part of a city known for high vagrancy and poor maintenance. Skid Row may also refer to: Skid Row (Irish band)...
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    The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin...
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  • large scale, and in themed 'projects' investigating hidden communities (Vagrancy 1973, Mental Handicap 1976) or difficult social issues (Suicide 1980, Death...
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    could not quit, and allowing law enforcement at whim to arrest them for vagrancy and rent out their labor. Most Southerners elected to Congress were former...
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