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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  |Ship out of service= |Ship out of service=
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  |Ship out of service= |Ship flag=[[Image:Flag of South Vietnam.svg|60px|Flag of South Vietnam]]
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• USS Castle Rock (AVP-35)
  |Ship out of service= ...[[Ulithi Atoll]] until 20 March 1945, ''Castle Rock'' then took up duties of tending [[seaplane]]s at Saipan. Her seaplanes carried out varied air opera
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  ...VP-387, WHEC-387, WAGW-387) sometime after the Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its s |Ship namesake=[[Walter Q. Gresham]] (1832-1895), [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] (1884)
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship namesake=[[Willoughby Spit|Willoughby Bay]], an [[estuary]] of [[Hampton Roads]] in [[Virginia]] |Ship out of service=
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  |Ship caption=USS ''Barnegat'' (AVP-10), lead ship of the ''Barnegat''-class small seaplane tenders, in [[Puget Sound]] on 14 Oct ...s version of the company's name, which also is referred to in ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entries as "Associated Shipbuilding Company
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• Armstrong Gun
  ...le of Ueno against the Shogitai 1868.jpg|thumb|Armstrong gun deployed by [[Japan]] during the [[Boshin war]] (1868–69).]] ...lso been used to describe Armstrong's [[built-up gun]] construction system of a [[wrought-iron]] tube surrounded by multiple wrought-iron strengthening c
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• 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun
  ...te of fire than the [[5"/38 caliber gun]] used in WWII was needed. Because of this reason, the gun was created concurrently with the [[3"/70 Mark 26 gun] ...ed later on when the increasing speed of naval aircraft made manual aiming of antiaircraft weapons impractical. The [[5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun|Mark 45 l
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• EOC 14 inch /45 naval gun
  ...ed with 10 of its 14-inch guns. The battleship was acquired by the British government and completed as [[HMS Canada (1913)|HMS ''Canada'']] and served in the Roy Elswick built several guns for Japan which went into British service as railway guns in [[World War I]] under th
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...lklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operation Medak Po ...Gun''', or "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
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• RBL 40 pounder Armstrong gun
  |wars= [[New Zealand Land Wars]]<br> [[Bombardment of Kagoshima]] ...ured by Elswick Ordnance and 106 by the Royal Gun Factory. From the Report of the Select Committee on Ordnance, 1863.</ref>
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• RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun
  |wars= [[New Zealand Land Wars]] [[Bombardment of Kagoshima]] [[Bombardment of Shimonoseki]] ...ured by Elswick Ordnance and 620 by the Royal Gun Factory. From the Report of the Select Committee on Ordnance, 1863.</ref>
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• Type 4 75 mm AA Gun
  |origin={{flag|Empire of Japan}} |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]][[Imperial Japanese Army]]
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• Type 91 torpedo
  |origin= [[Japan]] ...igned to be launched from an aircraft. It was used in the [[naval battle]] of carrier task forces in [[World War II]].
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• Hydroelectric
  ...l 2006.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The [[Three Gorges Dam]] in China, the [[List of the largest hydroelectric power stations|largest hydro-electric power stati ...approximately 20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewable sources.<ref name="REN21-2006">[http://www.ren21
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• Quinine
  | pregnancy_category = C <small>([[United States of America|USA]])</small>, D <small>([[Australia|Au]])</small> ...nti-inflammatory]] properties and a bitter taste. It is a [[stereoisomer]] of [[quinidine]] which, unlike quinine, is an [[anti-arrhythmic]]. Quinine con
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• Mercury (element)
  ...of any metal. A heavy, silvery [[d-block]] [[metal]], mercury is also one of the five [[liquid metal|metallic]] chemical elements that are [[liquid]] at ...f mercury (such as [[mercuric chloride]] or [[methylmercury]]), inhalation of mercury vapor, or eating seafood contaminated with mercury.
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• Morphine
  *[[Cardiac arrest]], cessation of [[Cardiac cycle|heartbeat]], or [[heart failure]] *[[Flushing (physiology)|Flushing]] of the [[face]]
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• Diazepam
  ...09F.SGM}}</ref> The pharmacological action of diazepam enhances the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA by binding to the benzodiazepine site on the [[GA ...s-2008"/> Diazepam also has abuse potential and can cause serious problems of addiction. Urgent action by National Governments to improve prescribing pra
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• Privet
  ...ralasia]], with the centre of diversity in [[China]], the [[Himalayas]], [[Japan]] and [[Taiwan]]. The generic name originated in [[Latin]] and was applied ...he fruits, borne in clusters, are small purple to black drupes. The fruits of some species are mildly [[poisonous]] to humans.<ref>Plants for a Future, h
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