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yakuza, Japanese gangsters, members of what are formally called bōryokudan (“violence groups”), or Mafia-like criminal......
Yazoo land fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the......
Younger Brothers, four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916),......
zamindar, in India, a holder or occupier (dār) of land (zamīn). The root words are Persian, and the resulting name......
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27, 2002, ruled (5–4) that an Ohio school-voucher......
zemsky sobor, (“assembly of the land”), in 16th- and 17th-century Russia, an advisory assembly convened by the......
zemstvo, organ of rural self-government in the Russian Empire and Ukraine; established in 1864 to provide social......
Zhdanovshchina, cultural policy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period following World War II, calling......
Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 1993, ruled (5–4)......
zombie computer, computer or personal computer (PC) connected to the Internet and taken over by a computer worm,......
zoning, the legislative method of controlling land use by regulating such considerations as the type of buildings......
Zoot Suit Riots, a series of conflicts that occurred in June 1943 in Los Angeles between U.S. servicemen and Mexican......
Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat, in Mughal and British India, a high court of civil and revenue jurisdiction. It was instituted......
’Ndrangheta, criminal organization that originated in Italy’s Calabria region. One of the most extensive and powerful......
On the evening of April 14, 1865, as the U.S. Civil War wound to a close, Pres. Abraham Lincoln and his wife went......