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  2. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The modern history begins in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 issued Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."

  3. Vegetarianism and religion - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad has been said to have subsisted on a 90% plant-based diet, largely made up of dates and barley. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] Sri Lankan Sufi master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen , who founded the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship of North America in Philadelphia , established vegetarianism as the norm for his followers [ 79 ] and meat products are not permitted at ...

  4. Fruitarianism - Wikipedia

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    Maintaining this diet over a long period can result in dangerous deficiencies, a risk that many fruitarians try to ward off through nutritional testing and vitamin injections. [17] The Health Promotion Program at Columbia University reports that a fruitarian diet can cause deficiencies in calcium , protein , iron , zinc , vitamin D , most B ...

  5. Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia

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    Its definition has become broader, to include not only infection of fascia, but also other soft-tissue infection. [2] Despite being disfavored by the medical community, the term "galloping gangrene" is frequently used in sensationalistic news media to refer to outbreaks of necrotizing fasciitis.

  6. McDonald's - Wikipedia

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    The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is the third one built, opened in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at . Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California on May 15, 1940.

  7. Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - Wikipedia

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    If there is a tie, the contestants go to a 5-hot-dog eat-off to see who can eat that many the quickest. Further ties will result in a sudden-death eat-off of eating one more hot dog in the fastest time. After the winner is declared, a plate showing the number of hot dogs eaten by the winner is brought out for photo opportunities.

  8. Manta ray - Wikipedia

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    One notable individual is "Nandi", a manta ray which was accidentally caught in shark nets off Durban, South Africa, in 2007. Rehabilitated and outgrowing her aquarium at uShaka Marine World , Nandi was moved to the larger Georgia Aquarium in August 2008, where she resides in its 23,848 m 3 (6,300,000 US gal) "Ocean Voyager" exhibit. [ 66 ]

  9. Monkey meat - Wikipedia

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    Consuming monkey meat is a defining feature of the Bari people, who "perceive the eating of monkey meat as a boundary between them and non-indigenous people"; in recent years, however, some Bari tribe members have shied away from the practice because of how similar monkeys look to humans.