John Everett Millais "The Blind Girl": vagrant musicians

See also vagrancy (biology) for an alternative use of the term.

A vagrant is a person, usually poor, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular work. Urban vagrants are commonly called "street people". Some towns have shelters for vagrants, such as The Rescue Mission in Syracuse, New York. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1067x1600, 360 KB) Summary John Everett Millais: The Blind Girl / Die junge Blinde / La fille aveugle 1856 City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Blindness Metadata This file contains additional information, probably... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1067x1600, 360 KB) Summary John Everett Millais: The Blind Girl / Die junge Blinde / La fille aveugle 1856 City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Blindness Metadata This file contains additional information, probably... Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 – August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ... Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Homeless shelters are residences for people, the homeless, in urban neighborhoods to stay temporarily when they otherwise would have to sleep on the street, similar to emergency shelters. ... Nickname: The Salt City Location of Syracuse within the state of New York Coordinates: City Government  - Mayor Matthew Driscoll Area  - City 66. ...

Vagrancy is a crime in some European countries, but most of these laws have been abandoned. Laws against vagrancy in the United States have largely been invalidated as violative of the due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution. But the FBI report on crime in the United States for 2005 lists 33,227 vagrancy violations. In legal terminology, a person with a source of income is not a vagrant, even if he/she is homeless. The aim of this page is to act as a comparison between European countries in many different aspects, such as population, GDP, life expectancy, etc. ... This article is about law in society. ... In United States law, adopted from British law, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that the government must normally respect all of a persons legal rights instead of just some or most of those legal rights when the government deprives a person of life...

See also

• Homelessness

A homeless person in Paris. ...

External links

• Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Vagrancy