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The single-word question asks and whether that equates to a neutral descriptor; historically the slur traces to niger, meaning “black,” but contemporary usage is overwhelmingly an offensive racial epi...
"Slag" is a British slang word with layered meanings: a technical term for smelting waste and, in everyday UK usage, a strongly pejorative insult—most commonly used to label a woman as promiscuous or ...
The Mauser Model 98 (Gewehr 98) was originally adopted and chambered for the German service 7.92×57mm cartridge (often called 7.9mm or 8mm Mauser) as its standard military chambering . Modern commerci...
The slur commonly called the traces linguistically to the niger “black,” passing through / negro into forms by the 16th century, but its social meaning shifted dramatically over centuries from a neutr...
Large cohort meta-analyses and population studies find that is, on average, substantially higher after infection than after mRNA COVID‑19 vaccination, but that risk varies sharply by age, sex, vaccine...
The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of “whiteness” to...
The clinical term "-vs-blow-job">fellatio" is a direct borrowing from fellātiō, rooted in the verb fellāre "to suck," and its use in follows a medical/academic trajectory that solidified in the late 1...
The word "" is a modern phonetic variant of the slur "nigger," whose etymological root comes from niger meaning "black," and it developed historically as a racial epithet directed at . In contemporary...
The word nigger traces etymologically to Latin niger (“black”) and entered English through forms like negro, with the term’s meaning shifting from a neutral descriptor to a highly charged epithet by t...
Treason prosecutions in the United States are rare and legally constrained by Article III’s requirement of an overt act plus either a confession or testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, a ...
Redactions and publisher-ordered alterations have occurred in high-profile memoirs — most notably Rebel Wilson’s Rebel Rising, where the UK and Australia/New Zealand editions removed or blacked out ma...
The word “” began as a shortening of raccoon, itself borrowed into from an / word, but over the 19th century it became a racial slur for Black people through entanglement with minstrel performance, mi...
The slur "" is etymologically traced by scholars to niger, meaning "black," which passed through Romance-language forms such as negro and nègre before appearing in English variants; over the 18th and ...
Over the past five years the evidence paints a qualified picture: properly delivered, completed, offense-focused treatment—especially —tends to be associated with reduced sexual and combined sexual/vi...
Scholars anchor “abuse of power,” “tyranny,” and “usurpation of appropriations power” as impeachable through the Constitution’s catchall—“high Crimes and Misdemeanors”—and a long line of English and A...
Legal limits such as grand jury secrecy and victim‑privacy statutes have long restricted public access to high‑profile investigation records by design: to protect witnesses and targets, preserve inves...
The year 1526 marks an early and contested moment in North American slavery: Spanish expeditions brought Africans to the Atlantic coast that later became the southeastern United States, and those capt...
The category "gentleman" began as a marker of birth and clan—derived from Latin gentilis and Old French gentilhomme—before evolving into a cultural ideal that blended lineage, martial role and, later,...
The slang form nigga derives historically from the racial slur nigger, itself tracing back through English borrowings of Spanish/Portuguese negro from Latin niger “black,” and has been attested in dia...
Jenny hanivers are altered, dried carcasses of rays, skates or related guitarfish—cut, folded and desiccated into grotesque, often humanoid or draconic curiosities—and were produced and sold by seafar...