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  • "The Convict" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show's 37th overall. It first aired...
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    000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia. The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to American...
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  • label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con" ("ex-convict"). Persons convicted and sentenced to non-custodial sentences...
    5 KB (660 words) - 02:51, 8 March 2023
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    The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) is a fish species from the family Cichlidae, native to Central America, also known as the zebra cichlid...
    32 KB (3,860 words) - 05:44, 17 April 2024
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    Convict Lake (Mono: Wit-sa-nap) is a lake located in Mono County, California, United States, situated in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada. It is...
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    Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States, the laborers being mainly African-American...
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    Pholidichthys leucotaenia, commonly known as the convict blenny/goby or the engineer blenny/goby, is a marine fish from the west-central Pacific Ocean...
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  • Convict (Russian: Заключённые) is a 1936 Soviet drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov. A group of prisoners arrives at the NKVD camp in the north...
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    Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified...
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    The Castle Hill convict rebellion was an 1804 convict rebellion in the Castle Hill area of Sydney, against the colonial authorities of the British colony...
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  • Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt and Googie Withers. Incompetent...
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    The Convict crisis, also known as the "Anti-convict demonstrations" or "Anti-convict agitation" or "Cape Town anti-convict petition" was a period of civil...
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  • Convict Concerto is the 58th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 22, 1954, the film was produced...
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  • Convict assignment was the practice used in many penal colonies of assigning convicts to work for private individuals. Contemporary abolitionists characterised...
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    posted his mugshot on Facebook, which went viral due to his attractive appearance. He was convicted on federal charges of being a felon in possession of...
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  • Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop...
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    A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their...
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    The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small...
    29 KB (3,721 words) - 06:57, 24 May 2023
  • Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo is a 2016 book about the Texas Prison Rodeo, written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by...
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  • Indefatigable arrived at Hobart Town in 1812 and was the first vessel to transport convicts to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). There was a break until 1818...
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