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AGM may refer to:

Military and navy[link]

• Air-to-ground missile, a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft
• Artillery Gun Module, an air-portable self-propelled howitzer
• Missile Range Instrumentation Ship (US Navy hull classification symbol), a special type of ships for launching and tracking missiles and rockets

Science and technology[link]

• AGM postulates, a set of conditions describing knowledge and belief revision
• Absorbent glass mat, a type of lead-acid battery with fine glass fibers
• Aorta-gonad-mesonephros, a part of chick, mouse and human embryos
• Arithmetic-geometric mean, a function of two positive numbers that is between the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean
• Chlorocebus, specifically African green monkey

Miscellaneous[link]

• Active Gaming Media, a game localization company
• Annual general meeting, a meeting held every year
• Assistant general manager, a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation
• Award of Garden Merit, an award made to garden plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society
• Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE symbol), a loan and mortgage company
• Tasiilaq Heliport (IATA airport code), in Tasiilaq, Greenland

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Bronze statue of José María López Lledín known as "El Caballero de Paris" in Havana, Cuba, by sculptor Jose Villa Soberon. Unlike the nearby statue of St. Francis, this statue stands simply on the sidewalk and is a popular tourist attraction. The statue's beard has been polished by the hands of people standing to be photographed with it, for luck.

Street people are people who live a public life on the streets of a city.^[1][2] Street people are frequently homeless, sometimes mentally ill, and often have a bohemian lifestyle. Certain neighborhoods, especially those in neighborhoods near universities, such as Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, The Ave in Seattle, Washington, or the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado often host street people. They may also frequent bohemian commercial districts such as Colfax Avenue in Denver. Individual street people may be familiar figures to the entire community.

Well-known street people[link]

Examples of well-known street people are José María López Lledín who lived a public life on the streets of Havana during the 1950's, Mr. Butch of Boston, Leslie Cochran of Austin, Juan of Seattle, or Louis Thomas Hardin ("Moondog") who was a street musician, inventor, and later homeless person in the 1940s through to 1970s in New York City.

Character of street people[link]

Contemporary street people in the United States include hippies, some of whom may be beggars who "spange" (ask for spare-change, hence the portmanteau "spange") on the streets;^[3] bag ladies who often have all their possessions in a shopping cart which accompanies them. They also may include street performers, and people with chronic mental illness.

The term street people is used somewhat loosely and may be used simply to refer to eccentric people who live in Bohemian neighborhoods.^[4] However, the defining characteristic is time spent in the street, wandering the streets for a substantial portion of their day or night. This street presence combined with their distinctive disheveled appearance, result in some individuals becoming familiar to residents of the neighborhood they frequent.

Code of the Road[link]

Leslie Cochran on South Congress in Austin, Texas

Street people are said to have an unwritten code or set of rules that govern interaction between street people. Referred to as the “Code of the Road” it emerged from the Hobo camps of the depression era to encompass urban street people. The “Code of the Road” was detailed in Xploited Magazine.^[5]

As a social problem[link]

Poor economic and social conditions can result in accumulations of the homeless, often called street people, in certain neighborhoods. This may result in revival of vagrancy laws, or similar laws which may prohibit lying or sitting on the street. Results and attitudes vary, especially as liberal communities attempt to grapple with large numbers of the homeless.^[6]

Notes[link]

External links and further reading[link]

• The Rabble of Downtown Toronto by cartoonist Jason Kieffer, "notable street people in Toronto, himself included".