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United States congressional districts redrawn by a computer to eliminate gerrymandering

The term gerrymander was used for the initial time in the Boston Gazette. The word was invented to redraw Massachusetts state senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry. In 1812, Elbridge Gerry signed a law that redistricted Massachusetts to help his Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the twisted communities in the Boston area resembled the form of a mythological salamander.

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Gulag Archipelago
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The Gulag Archipelago (The Soviet forced labor camp system)

The Gulag camp system united 53 camp administrations with thousands of camp departments, 425 сorrective labor colonies, and more than 2,000 special commandants’ offices. In total, the Gulag included over 30,000 places of detention. On January 1, 1939, almost 1.99 million prisoners were held in the camps, colonies, and prisons of the Gulag, and by 1950 the number of prisoners had increased to 2.5 million people.

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