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• USS Rockaway (AVP-29)
  ...Flow]] in the [[Orkney Islands]], delivered secret [[radar]] equipment to England to be used in the [[Normandy invasion]] of 6 June 1944, performed guard dut ...'}}s All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946''. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ===Voyages to England=== ...n Navy Yard]] for the entire month of January 1945. She got underway for [[England]] on 14 February 1945, but an engineering casualty forced her to return to
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• Soaper
  Historically, in England and in the United States, a "[[chandler]]" is a person who makes soap and/o | publisher = Storey Books
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• 68-pounder 95 cwt
  ...|last1=Hogg |first1=Ian |authorlink1=Ian V. Hogg |title= Coast Defences of England and Wales, 1856 – 1956|year=1974|origyear= |publisher=David & Charles |lo ...e= Warrior, The First and the Last|year=1987|origyear= |publisher=Maritime Books |location=Cornwall |isbn= 0-907771-34-3}}
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• Hydroelectric
  ...> This was approximately 20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewable sources.<ref name="REN21-2006">[http://ww ...an operating September 30, 1882, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts. The Vulcan Street Plant powered two paper mills and a house
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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 ...32.htm | accessdate=2006-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | journal=[[New England Journal of Medicine|New Engl J Med]] | volume=353 | pages=335&ndash;337 | y
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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 ...MA, Essen LO |title=How to tailor non-ribosomal peptide products-new clues about the structures and mechanisms of modifying enzymes |journal=Mol Biosyst |vo
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• Activated carbon
  ...f activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 500&nbsp;m² (about one tenth the size of a football field), as determined typically by [[nitro ...y weight taken at the same time as 170 ml of pure ethanol (which equals to about 10 servings of an alcoholic beverage), over the course of one hour, seemed
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• Horace Everett Hooper
  ...ed the Western Book and Stationary Company at [[Denver Colorado]]. He sold books to the western states making use of the [[United States Postal Service]]. ...il order]] and credit by instalment terms, to great success. He visited [[England]] in 1897 and saw that the 9th edition of ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''
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• James Louis Garvin
  | birth_place = Birkenhead, Merseyside, England | death_place = Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...et_TIFF_demo&vol=19&page=EC9A362|accessdate=2007-01-10}}</ref> The article about the [[American War of Independence]] attributes the success of the [[United ...sed by a fungus, vitamins not having been discovered at the time. Articles about geographic places mention rail connections and ferry stops in towns that to
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...vately held company. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100&nbsp;full-time editors and more than 4,000&nbsp;expert contributors. It ...the ''Britannica'' has remained roughly constant over 70&nbsp;years, with about 40&nbsp;million words on half a million topics.<ref name="index_preface">{{
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• Propædia
  ...hips among the "Great Ideas" in Adler's [[Great Books]] series. (The Great Books were also published by the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.]]) Adler stress ...taff member, [[Medical Research Council (UK)|Medical Research Council]], [[England]] (1971-1984) || 29
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• Magna Britannia
  [[Category:Books about England]] [[Category:1806 books]]
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• Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
  ...e Reverend [[John Marius Wilson]]. It contains a detailed description of [[England and Wales]]. Its six volumes have a brief article on each [[county]], [[cit [[Category:Books about England]]
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• Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
  ...work was later joined as a companion by Wilson's ''[[Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]]'', which followed in six volumes between [[1870]] and [[1872]]. [[Category:Books about Scotland]]
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• Dictionary of Australian Biography
  The average length of the biographies is about 640 Words, and Serle classified them roughly into the following twelve gro ...graphies. Forty-seven percent of those included in the book were born in [[England]], 27% in Australia, 12% [[Scotland]], 8% [[Ireland]], 1% [[Wales]] and the
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• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
  '''''The Imperial Gazetteer of India''''' is a historical reference book about India. It was first published in 1881. Sir [[William Wilson Hunter]] made t ...September 1871. From 1875 to 1881 he spent more than half of every year in England for the purpose of compiling the statistical account of bengal and the Impe
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• Bouvier's Law Dictionary
  ...10 years. One of his main goals was to distinguish American law from its [[England|English]] antecedent. He finally presented it for publication in 1839. Like ...d ale houses, and a variety of similar subjects?''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YCRAAAAAYAAJ&dq=bouvier%20law%20dictionary&pg=PP13#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...nna to justify the notion of the Mother of the Book." From "On the Cult of Books", ''Selected Non-Fictions'', [[Jorge Luis Borges]]; ed. [[Eliot Weinberger] ...a harmonious whole out of the fragments of truth scattered about in sacred books and the writings of wise men and the mystic doctrines of saints." Stanley L
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