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In principle, a sheriff is a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.
The word "sheriff" is a contraction of the term "shire reeve". The term, from the Old English scīrgerefa, designated a royal official responsible for keeping the peace (a "reeve") throughout a shire or county on behalf of the king. The term was preserved in England notwithstanding the Norman Conquest. From the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms the term spread to several other regions, at an early point to Scotland, latterly to Ireland, and to the United States.
Sheriffs exist in various countries:
In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff is called a shrievalty.
The office of sheriff was first established in Australia in 1824. This was simultaneous with the appointment of the first Chief Justice of New South Wales. The role of the sheriff has not been static, nor is it identical in each Australian State. In the past his duties included: executing court judgements, acting as a coroner, transporting prisoners, managing the gaols, and carrying out executions (through an anonymous hangman). Currently, no Australian State provides for capital punishment. A government department (usually called the Department of Corrections or similar) now runs the prison system, and the Coroner’s Office handles coronal matters. The sheriff is now largely responsible for enforcing the civil orders and fines of the court (seizing and selling the property of judgement debtors who do not satisfy the debt), providing court security, enforcing arrest warrants, evictions, taking juveniles into custody, and running the jury system. Some State Sheriffs can also apply sanctions ranging from suspending drivers licences and car registration to wheel clamping and arranging community service orders, and as a last resort make arrests.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.
Weather is driven by density (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot, which varies by latitude from the tropics. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate and global climate change.
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.
Actors: Scott Tanner Jones (writer), Scott Tanner Jones (director), Scott Tanner Jones (producer), Ryan Driscoll (actress), Cheryl Lynn Golemo (actress), Liz Dotts (producer), Alex Gillmor (actor), Jen Ruvalcaba (editor), Lisa M. Wilson (actress), Tony Kimble (actor), Anderson Lawfer (actor), James S. Allen (actor), Joseph L'Amour (composer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Ray Walker (actor), Phil Warren (actor), George Reeves (actor), George Reeves (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Frank Reicher (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), J. Farrell MacDonald (actor), Jerry Maren (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Walter Reed (actor), Phyllis Coates (actress),
Plot: Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
Keywords: 1950s, action-hero, agitator, angry-mob, b-movie, based-on-comic-book, big-city, bigotry, character-name-in-title, close-encounter-of-the-third-kindActors: Charles Sellon (actor), Harry Wilson (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Harvey Parry (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), James Gleason (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Otis Harlan (actor), Roger Imhof (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Frank Moran (actor), Herbert Mundin (actor), Harry Woods (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jack Nelson (director), Bob Custer (actor), David Dunbar (actor), Jesse J. Goldburg (miscellaneous crew), Bob Custer (producer), Bert Sprotte (actor), Joseph P. Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), Walter Maly (actor), Carlo Schipa (actor), Jack Anthony (actor), Madeline Matzen (writer), Evanne Blasdale (writer), Zita Makar (actress), Estrella Warde (writer), Mary O'Day (actress),
Genres: Western,Actors: Spottiswoode Aitken (actor), Earle Foxe (actor), Mae Marsh (actress), Anita Loos (writer), Edward Morrissey (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Joseph Franz (actor), Edythe Sterling (actress), Arthur Allardt (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short, Western,Actors: Joseph Franz (actor), Lloyd Hamilton (actor), Edythe Sterling (actress), Arthur Allardt (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Richard Stanton (actor), E.H. Allen (actor), Elmer Morrow (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (actor), Fred Church (actor), Harry Keenan (actor), Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (director), Eleanor Blevins (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (actor), Ben Turpin (actor), Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (director),
Plot: A sheriff saves a Mexican from being hanged for horse theft. In a gesture of thanks, the Mexican writes the word "gratitude" upon a card. After rending the card in two, he gives one half to the sheriff. Many years later the sheriff, still carrying his half of the "gratitude" card, becomes the captive of desperados. One of these greasy varmints grabs a tobacco pouch from the bound sheriff's pocket, noticing the timeworn card...
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