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• Fallout shelter
  ...ch shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War. [[Image:Fallout shelter photo.png|thumbnail|300px|right|Idealized American fallout shelter from around 1957.]]
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po ...lobbied the Navy administration to take action. With the Spanish-American War looming, Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |fatalities= 241 American servicemen<br/> 58 French servicemen<br/> 6 civilians<br/> 2 suicide bomber ...ary forces]]—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization [[Islamic Jihad Organization|Islami
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...than Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...wright]], his cousin, Commander [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]], and his son, [[Jonathan Wainwright, Jr.]].
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• 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41
  [[Image:2001gun88mmwiki.jpg|thumb|88 mm display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, 2001]] ...battlefield, making it one of the most recognizable German weapons of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns.
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• United States 40 mm grenades
  ...for both types of 40 mm grenades, but over the years the functions of the weapons using these grenades has dramatically expanded, and as a result the need to Similar rounds have also been developed for weapons chambering the higher velocity 40x53mm cartridge as well, probably in respo
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• Dahlgren gun
  ...1809 – July 12, 1870) mostly used in the period of the [[American Civil War]]. Dahlgren's design philosophy evolved from an accidental explosion in 184 During the [[Mexican-American War]] the U.S. found itself lacking in light guns that could be fired from ship
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• Gatling gun
  ...ast=Chambers|publisher=HighBeam Research Inc.|work=The Oxford Companion to American Military History|year=2000|accessdate=2009-11-24}}</ref> ...reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.<ref>Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, '''The Gatling Gun''', Arco Publishing, 1
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...r on Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) ..."Ma Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John Browning's e
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• Parrott rifle
  ...ing|rifled]] [[artillery]] weapon used extensively in the [[American Civil War]]. ...+%22robert+parker+parrott%22&lr=&sig=3W9wyByS8IFq95FEMRm87LoKapc Civil War Weapons and Equipment], p.82. Globe Pequit Press, 2003. ISBN 158574493X.</ref>
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• Type 14 10 cm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]][[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• Type 5 15 cm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]][[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[World War II]]
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• Type 88 75 mm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]], [[World War II]]
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• J. Gordon Melton
  | nationality = [[United States|American]] ...s Leaders of America''<br>''Prime-Time Religion''<br>''The Encyclopedia of American Religions''
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• Depleted uranium
  |title= Depleted Uranium Weapons ...0 percent of reactors ever built utilize that technology, and both nuclear weapons production and [[Nuclear marine propulsion|naval reactors]] require the con
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  ...the [[Yayoi period]] from about 300&nbsp;BC to 300&nbsp;AD, iron tools and weapons such as knives, axes, swords or spears, were introduced to Japan from Korea ..., and around the mid-Kofun period swords evolved from thrusting to cutting weapons.<ref name="nagayama-p12"/><ref name="nagayama-p12"/> Ancient swords were al
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• Steel
  ..., infrastructure, tools, ships, [[automobile]]s, machines, appliances, and weapons. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades defined by assorted ...oseph|year=1986|title=Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics|publisher=Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd. |page=563}}</re
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• Anniston, Alabama
  |timezone = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]] ...000census>{{Cite web | title = Fact Sheet- Aniston city, Alabama | work = American Fact Finder | publisher = United States Census Bureau | url = http://fact
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• George Metesky
  ...uilding by explosion, maliciously endangering life, and carrying concealed weapons in violation of New York State's [[Sullivan Act|Sullivan Law]]. Following [[World War I]], Metesky joined the [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]], servin
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• Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
  ...tacking three Jewish institutions: the [[Skirball Cultural Center]], the [[American Jewish University]] and the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]]'s Museum of Toleran ...ployee.<ref>[http://apalc.org/iletoevent/iletomurder.php The Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California]. Retrieved August 3, 2006.</ref><ref n
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