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Law is a system of rules which is usually enforced through a set of institutions. Law frames everyday life and society in a wide variety of ways. "The rule of law," wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in 350 BC, "is better than the rule of any individual." Legal systems around the world elaborate legal rights and responsibilities in different ways. A basic distinction is made between civil law jurisdictions and systems using common law. Small numbers of countries still base their law on religious scripts. Scholars investigate the nature of law through many perspectives, including legal history and philosophy, or social sciences, such as economics and sociology. The study of law raises important questions about equality, fairness and justice, which is not always simple. "In its majestic equality," said the author Anatole France in 1894, "the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." The most important institutions for law are the judiciary, the legislature, the executive, its bureaucracy, the military and police, the legal profession and civil society. (more...)

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17:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at the Chicago Theatre (pictured)?
...that the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage?
...that the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint Columba", which reputedly never runs dry?
...that in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar Hammerstein I received over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera?
...that Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder?
...that Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine?
...that private investigator Bradley Willman used a Trojan horse to gain open access to 2,000 to 3,000 computers that had been used to visit websites of interest to pedophiles?

04:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

...that in his recitals baritone David Bispham (pictured) often sang English versions of songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and others?
...that despite finishing its first season with a profit of $53,000, the Damrosch Opera Company was forced to close due to mounting deficits after only six years in business?
...that six striking coal miners, nine of their family members, and one bystander were killed during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911?
...that the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain?
...that in the Old Javanese eulogy of Nagarakretagama, Kertanegara, the last king of the Singhasari kingdom, was deified into three deity forms?
...that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?

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March 5: Learn from Lei Feng Day in China; St Piran's Day in Cornwall, England

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1811 – Peninsular War: At the Battle of Barrosa, Anglo-Iberian forces trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French attack but could not break the siege itself.
1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last Caribbean pirates, was apprehended after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities.
1936 – The prototype (pictured) of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph Guerrillero Heroico of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.

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Hélène Dutrieu, shown here in her aeroplane ca. 1911, was the fourth woman in the world (the first from Belgium) to earn a pilot's license and reputedly the first woman to carry passengers and to fly a seaplane. Besides being a pilot, she was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital.

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