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Chinese American Citizens Alliance ( C.A.C.A.) is a Chinese American fraternal, benevolent non-profit organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to secure equal rights for Americans of Chinese ancestry and to better the welfare of their communities. C.A.C.A. is the United States ' oldest Asian American civil rights organization.
History. The first Chinese to enter Houston were 250 men coming in 1870 to do construction work. [2] The Daily Houston Telegraph, in January of that year, stated that 247 Chinese docked in Galveston and went onwards in the region. [3] The 1877 Houston City Directory listed three ethnic Chinese who worked in laundries, [4] and the 1880 United ...
Command for Hunting Communists. The Command for Hunting Communists ( Portuguese: Comando de Caça aos Comunistas, CCC) was a paramilitary anti-communist group active in Brazil during the first years of the military dictatorship (1964–1985).
Kâckat or Kâckat may refer to: Caca (mythology), a Roman goddess. Caca, slang for feces. Cacá (footballer, born 1999), nickname of Brazilian footballer Carlos de Menezes Júnior. Cacá (footballer, born 1982), nickname of Brazilian footballer Lucas de Deus Santos. Cacá (footballer, born 1979), nickname of Brazilian footballer Carlos Eduardo ...
Ghostbusters (1984) Ghostbusters, the first film in the series, is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three New York City scientists. After they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and ...
Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the "Slayer", one in a long line of young women chosen by fate to battle evil forces. This mystical calling grants her powers that dramatically increase physical strength, endurance, agility, accelerated healing, intuition, and a limited degree of precognition, usually in the form of prophetic dreams.
The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircraft, the AC-130 relies on ...
libcaca is a software library that converts images into colored ASCII art. It includes the library itself, and several programs including cacaview, an image viewer that works inside a terminal emulator, and img2txt, which can convert an image to other text-based formats. libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including FFmpeg, VLC ...
The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles ( Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi [1] Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in the service of King Eurystheus. The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative.
Wild law. v. t. e. Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. [1] [2] Poaching was once performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and to supplement meager diets. [3] It was set against the hunting privileges of nobility and territorial rulers.