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Urban decay

  • Racial segregationIn 2002, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court officially classified racial segregation as a crime against humanity.
  • GangThe word gang derives from the past participle of Old English meaning to go or move. It is cognate with Old Norse meaning a journey or expedition.
  • Dark Ages (historiography)In the 1330s, an Italian scholar named Petrarch looked back at centuries of history and saw only shadows. He wrote that amidst errors there shone forth men…