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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 Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...t perfect ditching,”<ref>This quote, from the ship{{'}}s ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b5/berin ...ersonal initiative.”<ref>This quote, from the ship{{'}}s ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b5/berin
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...ersion of the company's name, which also is referred to in ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entries as "Associated Shipbuilding Company" (see ht ...me="history.navy.mil">See the various ship articles in the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/index.html and
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• Quinine
  ...r |first=Clifford D. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Nation Books |location=New York |isbn=1560257482 |pages=95–96 |url= }} Also cites {{ci ...on was undertaken. A formal chemical synthesis was accomplished in 1944 by American chemists [[Robert Burns Woodward|R.B. Woodward]] and [[W.E. Doering]].<ref
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• Vancomycin
  ...The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria''. Back Bay Books. ISBN 978-0316735667.</ref> The organism that produced it was eventually na ...utic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients: A consensus review of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of Am
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• Sodium thiopental
  ...h |title=The Howdunit Book of Poisons (Howdunit) |publisher=Writers Digest Books |location=Cincinnati |year=2007 |isbn=1-58297-456-X}}</ref> ...earlman | journal = [[The American Journal of Psychiatry]] | publisher = [[American Psychiatric Association]] | year = 1980 | issue = 137 | pages = 1580–1582
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• Fluoxetine
  | journal = American Journal of Psychiatry ...d |first3=P |last4=Timmusk |first4=T |last5=Castrén |first5=E}}</ref> The American Association of Pediatrics classifies fluoxetine as a drug for which the eff
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• Activated carbon
  ...an molasses number (range 525&ndash;110) is inversely related to the North American molasses number. |publisher=Murdoch Books
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• Mercury (element)
  ...mpounds |publisher=McGraw-Hill|pages=560–576|isbn =0070494398|url=http://books.google.com/?id=Xqj-TTzkvTEC&pg=PA576|accessdate=2009-06-06}} ...nductors]] and [[infrared detector]] materials.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/?id=4b3WLgomvd0C&pg=PA507|page=507|title=Infrared detectors|auth
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• Amoxicillin
  ...ionizable]] groups. A once daily dosing form (Moxatag) was approved by the American [[Food and Drug Administration (United States)|FDA]] in January 2008. ...e journal |author=Pichichero ME |title=A review of evidence supporting the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for prescribing cephalosporin antibiot
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• Stinging nettle
  *''U. dioica'' subsp. ''gracilis'' (Ait.) Selander (American stinging nettle). North America. [[Image:Stinging Nettles 3.jpg|thumb|right|A young red-tinted variety of American stinging nettle.]]
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...lopædia Britannica]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars o ...n marketing methods also assisted sales. Some 11% of the contributors were American, and a New York office was established to run that side of the enterprise.{
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899) ...the ''Britannica'' shortened and simplified articles to broaden its North American market.<ref name="kogan_1958" /> In 1933, the ''Britannica'' became the fir
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• Joseph McCabe
  .../> both as [[Little Blue Book]]s and [[Big Blue Book]]s. Over 100 Big Blue Books by McCabe were published. ...''.<ref name=heretics>{{cite web | url=http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/heretics/ch16.html | title=''Heretics'', Ch. XVI |accessdate=2009-10-14}}<
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...rtimer Jerome Adler''' (December 28, 1902&nbsp;– June 28, 2001) was an [[American philosopher]], educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked wi === Great Books and Beyond ===
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• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
  ...x-volume collection of [[biography|biographies]] of famous [[United States|American]]s. It was published between 1887 and 1889 by [[D. Appleton and Company]], ...s of nearly 1,000 people of foreign birth who were closely identified with American history. The ''Cyclopædia'' was illustrated with about sixty full-page por
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• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  [[Image:The.Cambridge.History.of.English.and.American.Literature.gif|right]] ...[Old English poetry]] and end with the late [[Victorian era]]. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early
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• Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism
  ...in in 1729, to the Present Time |trans_title= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UJgsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false |format= |accessda ...f [[Methodist]] doctrine ever written, and remains the only compilation of books written from a primarily anti-Methodist perspective.
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• Ceramic materials
  ...ic forming techniques. Details of these processes are described in the two books listed below.) A few methods use a hybrid between the two approaches. ...hn B. Wachtman, Jr., ed., ''Ceramic Innovations in the 20th Century'', The American Ceramic Society, 1999, ISBN 978-1-57498-093-6.</ref>
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• Asphalt
  In [[American English]], asphalt (or asphalt cement) is the carefully refined residue fro ...ive distillation of [[coal]] and is chemically distinct from bitumen. In [[American English]], bitumen is referred to as 'asphalt' or 'asphalt cement' in [[eng
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