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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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Irish is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family. The Irish language is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population’s 1st language until the 19th century, when English slowly became prevalent, especially in the last decades of the century.
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