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  2. List of Moby-Dick characters - Wikipedia

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    Captain Ahab. Ahab facing Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is the tyrannical captain of Pequod. Prior to the events of the novel, Captain Ahab lost his leg while hunting Moby Dick, leading to a monomaniacal desire in Ahab to kill the "White Whale". It is his obsession with Moby Dick that dooms Pequod and her crew, with Ishmael as the sole survivor.

  3. Among Us - Wikipedia

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    In the manga series Komi Can't Communicate, one chapter is dedicated to the game, and sees the characters dressed up as Crewmates. [173] Among Us was also featured as a question on Jeopardy! [174] Among Us is seen being played by characters in the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. [156]

  4. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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    The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...

  5. QUIZ: Which 'Orange is the New Black' character are you? - AOL

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    By Variety: With the third season of "Orange is the New Black" being released on Netflix (and a fourth season already renewed), Variety has compiled an algorithm to determine which inmate or ...

  6. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

  7. Mike Gundy's controversial comments & could the Big 12 ... - AOL

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    On today's episode, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI's Pat Forde discuss the latest buzz coming from Big 12 media day in Las Vegas. They start by reacting to Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy ...

  8. Tulsa race massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...

  9. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [ 1][ 2] Alabama leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.