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The date for "[[eminent domain]]" is incorrect: 1783.  The term was used as early as 1625, and means the government seizure of private property for public use, such as to build a courthouse or highway.
 
The date for "[[eminent domain]]" is incorrect: 1783.  The term was used as early as 1625, and means the government seizure of private property for public use, such as to build a courthouse or highway.
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The date and description of [[pogrom]] are incorrect: 1903 and an organized massacre of helpless people.  [[Pogram]] is a Yiddish term used in Russian in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of violence (not always a "massacre") against Jewish settlements in Russia.
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The date and description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct. Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized massacre of helpless people.  [[Pogram]] is a Yiddish term used in Russian beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of violence (not always a "massacre") against Jewish people in Russia.
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