the Negro Heritage Trail Tour. W. W. Law was the only son and eldest of ten children born to Geneva Wallace and Westley Law. He began working at the age...
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Law contacted William Sloane, head of W. & J. Sloane. Sloane hired him more out of kindness than need for employees. In 1866, at the age of 29, Law began...
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Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...
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American Law: An Introduction (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984), pg. 70. William Wirt Howe, Studies in the Civil Law, and its Relation to the Law of England...
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2″N 79°26′37.9″W / 37.791444°N 79.443861°W / 37.791444; -79.443861 The Washington and Lee University School of Law (W&L Law) is the law school of Washington...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (redirect from Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.)
W., The Common Law, pp. 130-131; Alschuler, A. W., Law Without Values, p. 113. Holmes, O. W., The Common Law, p. 147. Holmes, O. W., The Common Law,...
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40°43′49″N 73°59′58″W / 40.73028°N 73.99944°W / 40.73028; -73.99944 The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University...
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The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of...
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wrong, will—at the worst possible moment." The term "Finagle's law" was first used by John W. Campbell Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science...
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President of the New York State Tax Commission. He was the son of Walter W. Law (1837–1924), the founder of Briarcliff Manor. He engaged in the real estate...
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