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• 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun
  ...been cited by historians as the only instance in World War II in which one American battleship actually sank an enemy battleship.<ref name="B236">{{cite episod ...www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m6/massachusetts-v.htm | work = [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] | publisher= [[United States Navy]] | accessdate=200
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...role) was the [[3.7 cm FlaK 43]], made by [[Rheinmetall]]; it appears that historians{{Who|date=May 2009}} have connected the development of the Bofors 40&nbsp; *'''Mark I''': twin mounting based on American design and using American built guns, not widely fitted. Fitted for remote [[fire-control system|fire
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...(Roman style) in official documentation and reports as well as accounts by historians and observers. * Gannon, Robert. ''Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II''. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. ISB
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• Type 93 torpedo
  {{redirect|Long Lance|the American Indian writer|Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance}} ...d to as the ''"Long Lance"'' torpedo by most modern English-language naval historians, a nickname given it after the war by [[Samuel E. Morison]], the chief hist
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• Airspeed Oxford
  ...Blind approach beacon system|Beam Approach]] Training. By the end of 1944, American types were available and all had been returned to the Royal Air Force by th ...The Oxford, Consul & Envoy File''. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2001. {{ISBN|0-85130-289-0}}.
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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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• Amos Urban Shirk
  ...mos Urban Shirk''' (1890? &ndash; October 20, 1956) was an [[United States|American]] businessman, author and [[bibliophilia|reader]] of [[encyclopedia]]s. ...f to ''Britannica''. He also read [[Henry Smith Williams]]'s 24-volume ''[[Historians' History of the World]]'', which took him two years. Among his other feats
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• History of clothing and textiles
  Cultural and costume historians agree that the mid-14th century marks the emergence of recognizable "fashio ...amilies usually made.<ref>Rorabough, W.J. 1979 The Alcoholic Republic, and American Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press. p.129-131</ref>
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• Kerosene
  ...ademark by [[Abraham Gesner]] in 1854 and for several years only the North American Gas Light Company and the Downer Company (to which Gesner had granted the r ...re he secured the backing of a group of businessmen. They formed the North American Gas Light Company, to which he assigned his patents. Despite clear priority
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• Tile
  ...avations under the Direction of Katie Demakopoulou and Paul åström”, ''American Journal of Archaeology'', Vol. 104, No. 1. (Jan., 2000), pp. 133-134</ref> ...thed and polished stones, which were laid on floors and in swimming pools. Historians suggest that they used advanced techniques and tools for tiling, because ea
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• Benzene
  ..., ''Journal of Chemical Education'', '''42''' (1965), 266–67.</ref> Some historians have suggested that the parody was a lampoon of the snake anecdote, possibl ...5 = Paul v. R.|last6 = Schaefer|first6 = Henry F.|journal = Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume = 128|issue = 29|pages = 9342}}</ref> One represent
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• List of foods named after people
  ...– (1872–1928), invented for the Norwegian polar explorer by Norwegian-American friends in Wisconsin not long before he died in an Arctic plane crash. ...ommodore Matthew Perry]], and was a leading figure in New York society and American horse racing. This dish was created at Delmonico's by Charles Ranhofer, pro
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• Black Tom explosion
  |name= North American theatre of World War I |raw_name=Campaignbox North American theatre of World War I
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• Ted Kaczynski
  ...the '''Unabomber''' (University and Airline Bomber), is an [[United States|American]] [[mathematician]] and [[social criticism|social critic]], who engaged in ...n on May 22, 1942, in [[Chicago, Illinois]], to second-generation [[Polish American]]s Wanda (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski.<ref>{{cite web|url=h
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• Rosewood massacre
  ...R. Thomas (Spring 1996), "Rosewood, Florida: The Destruction of an African American Community. ''The Historian'', '''58''' (3), pp. 605–622.</ref> ...ors reached the U.S. that French women had been sexually active with black American soldiers, which [[University of Florida]] historian David Colburn argues st
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• Wall Street bombing
  ...st Wall Street Bomb"], accessed September 16, 2010</ref> The [[Sons of the American Revolution]] had previously scheduled a rally on September 17 in celebratio ...l prisoners, or it will be sure death for all of you." At the bottom was: "American Anarchist Fighters."<ref>Gage, 171</ref> The BOI quickly decided that the f
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• History of terrorism
  ...sh property by the [[Sons of Liberty]] in 1773, three years prior to the [[American Revolution]]. ...t, David. "Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions." ''American Political Science Review'', 1984. p.658</ref> Led by [[Hassan-i Sabbah]] an
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• Terrorism
  |title= Historians Trace an Unholy Alliance; Religion as the Root Of Nationalist Feeling |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/arts/historians-trace-an-unholy-alliance-religion-as-the-root-of-nationalist-feeling.html?p
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• Brigitte L. Nacos
  ...Post-9/11 America" which was delivered at the Summer 2006 meeting of the [[American Political Science Association]]; the paper addresses the correlation betwee * Decisionmaking in a Glass House: Mass Media, Public Opinion, and American and European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Brigitte L. Nacos, and oth
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• War on Terror
  ...ers board a Chinook helicopter during [[Operation Anaconda]], an Aghan and American soldier standby to engage an enemy, a car bomb detonates in Baghdad, Iraq. ...ican people must be patient. I'm going to be patient. But I can assure the American people I am determined."<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2001
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