In the 1840s and 1850s, the Supreme Court began addressing these impositions on statesâ rights. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the court struck down a Pennsylvania law preventing the transportation of any ânegro or mullatoâ for the purposes of returning the person to slaveryâbecause federal law superseded state law.
The dumbbell, a type of free weight, is a piece of equipment used in weight training. It can be used individually or in pairs, with one in each hand.
IN ENGLISH, the symbol is boringly known as commercial at, but other languages offer more imaginative names. In Swedish, it is called snabel-a , (a with an elephant's trunk), or kanelbulle , the Swedish equivalent of the Chelsea bun. In German it is called Klammerraffe , (a clinging monkey) - presumably hanging from a tree by one arm. Dr Gunnel Clark, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. IN GREEK, it's called a little duck and in Russian a dog.