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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...offshore, and/or to the hospital at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus or to U.S. and German hospitals in West Germany.<ref name="DoDreport8"/><ref>Buske, Jennifer, "Ma ...form of damages (compensatory and punitive) for wrongful death and common-law claims for battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distre
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  ...el]] Corp., [[Orange, Texas]]; sponsored by Mrs. J. J. Flaherty, sister-in-law of ''Ensign Flaherty''; and commissioned 26 June 1943, Lieutenant Commander == The Capture of German Submarine U-505 ==
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• USS Fessenden (DE-142)
  ...] Corp., [[Orange, Texas]]; sponsored by Mrs. R. K. Fessenden, daughter-in-law of ''Professor Fessenden''; and commissioned 25 August 1943, Lieutenant Com == Sinking of German Submarine U-1062 ==
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• USS Inch (DE-146)
  ...as]]; launched 4 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Philip L. Inch, daughter-in-law of Admiral Inch; and commissioned 8 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. C. W. Frey i ...CVE-25}}. The ships sailed 24 March for the [[convoy]] lanes to search for German [[U-boat]]s. During the months that followed, ''Inch'' took part in many at
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  ...'', a [[cargo ship|freighter]] which had been [[torpedo]]ed by a [[Germany|German]] [[submarine]]. ...s]], and also conducted [[search and rescue]] and [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations in addition to [[United States Coast Guard Academy
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• USS Humboldt (AVP-21)
  ...boldt'' was at Casablanca in late May 1944 when she heard that a [[Germany|German]] submarine had [[torpedo]]ed [[escort aircraft carrier]] [[USS Block Islan ...er armored-vehicle team|hunter-killer group]], which had just captured the German submarine [[Unterseeboot 505|''U-505'']] in an epic encounter on 4 June 194
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. ...e central Atlantic, picked up a distress call from the [[West Germany|West German]] four-masted [[steel]]-[[Hull (watercraft)|hulled]] [[barque|bark]] [[Pami
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• USS Rockaway (AVP-29)
  ...tion of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[beachhead]]s against [[Germany|German]] air attacks. ...he became a [[high endurance cutter]], WHEC-377, in 1966, and an "offshire law-enforcement vessel," WOLE-377, in 1971. She was sold for scrapping in 1972.
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• USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. ...968 she helped to evacuate an injured crewman from the [[West Germany|West German]] merchant ship ''Brunsdeich''.
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• USCGC Chincoteague (WAVP-375)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. ...ber 1956, ''Chincoteague'' rescued 33 crewmen from the [[West Germany|West German]] merchant ship ''Helga Bolten'' in the [[North Atlantic]] by using two inf
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...ful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of several ships sunk by the German craft. ''Wainwright'' reported her first scrape with a German submarine on 11 May. She sighted an abandoned lifeboat at about 08:00. Afte
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...ltic Sea]] out of [[Queenstown, Ireland]], ''Porter'' severely damaged the German submarine {{SMU|U-108||2}} in April 1918. ...-43|2}},<ref name=Feuer-20>Feuer, p. 20.</ref> which had been torpedoed by German submarine {{SMU|U-61||2}} about {{convert|20|nmi|km}} south of [[Mind Head,
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• Sugar beet
  ...ptember 21, 2009, a federal court ruled that the USDA had violated federal law in deregulating Roundup Ready sugar beets without adequately evaluating the ...he Rhineland area, this sugar beet syrup (called ''Zuckerrüben-Sirup'' in German) is used as a spread for sandwiches, as well as for sweetening sauces, cake
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• Soap
  ...y impurities from the body and clothes. According to Galen, the best were German and ones from Gaul were second best. This is a reference to true soap in a ...rted making a high-quality, transparent soap in 1789 in London. His son-in-law, Thomas J. Barratt, opened a factory in Isleworth in 1862. William Gossage
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• AT4
  |number= 600,000+ <ref name="kemp2006">Kemp, Ian. "The law gets tougher: the shoulder-launched light anti-armour weapon has evolved to ...osest to meeting all the major requirements established to replace the M72 LAW,<ref>The French APILAS was the only tested weapon which had the maximum pen
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...kes reference to a 1982 European Patent (patent number 0049355), as well a German patent dated 21 January 1986. Bayer introduced ciprofloxacin in 1987 and wa ...y zone of the patent, and thus could not be redressed by federal antitrust law,<ref>{{cite web |author=United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circ
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• Mercury (element)
  ...oorly screens the nuclear charge that increases the attractive [[Coulomb's law|Coulomb interaction]] of the 6s shell and the nucleus (see [[lanthanide con ...legedly used by [[Western Allies|allied spies]] to sabotage [[Nazi Germany|German]] planes. A mercury paste was applied to bare [[aluminium]], causing the me
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• Morphine
  ...his day, poppy farming is legal in Hungary, but poppy farms are limited by law to {{convert|2|acre|m2}}. It is also legal to sell dried poppy in flower sh ...[[Netherlands]], morphine is classified as a List 1 drug under the [[Opium Law]].
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...iew]]''. The significance of the work's publication in English rather than German or Hebrew is captured by [[Harry Wolfson]] writing in 1926 {{Harv|Schwarz|1 ...enefit thereby would have been better served if it were put out in Hebrew, German or [[Russian language|Russian]].|Harry Wolfson}}
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...for each other, and they cooperate in supporting the faith, preserving the law and implementing the ''[[sunna]]'', and bearing the community along the pat ...Berlin) translated the first 40 of the epistles into German<ref name="ency-german">''Die Philosophie der Araber im zehnten Jahrhundert'', F. Dieterici, publi
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