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• Dry-Pack Canning in Canning Jars
  ...d in glass canning jars using oxygen absorbers. It is best to use quart or half gallon jars rather than pint jars or smaller. ...foods may keep longer when dry packed but will probably not have the shelf life of unprocessed, low moisture, low fat foods. These include cornmeal, pearl
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• Fallout shelter
  ...ising the use of fallout shelters appeared in the September, 1961 issue of Life magazine.)<ref>[http://www.em.doe.gov/Publications/timeline_sep1961.aspx DO ...amount of any quantity of material capable of cutting gamma ray effects in half. Shields that reduce gamma ray intensity by 50% (1/2) include 1&nbsp;cm (0.
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• USS Neunzer (DE-150)
  ...a stern shot which tore the DE apart and sent her down with heavy loss of life. ...in the line within range began firing. At 1844, after more than ten and a half hours of attacks, [[U-546]] rolled under for her last dive. Thirty-three of
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• USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)
  |Ship image=[[Image:USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378).jpg|300px|USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)]] |Ship caption=USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WAVP-378, later WHEC-378) sometime between 1949 and the Coast Guard
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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  ''Barataria'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...''Bering Strait'' (WHEC-382)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WHEC-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]] -- in forming Coast Guard Squadron Three. All five cutt
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• USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)
  ...[[Caribbean Sea]], [[West Africa]], and [[North Africa]] during the first half of [[World War II]]. Converted into an [[Amphibious warfare|amphibious forc ...burg'', which was flooding, on 4 November 1947. ''Dexter'' transferred a [[life raft]] and [[damage control]] [[timber]]s to ''Louisburg'' and escorted her
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  ''Gresham'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Gresham'', they all were former Navy ''Barnegat
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• USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)
  ''Bering Strait'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Bering Strait'' and ''Gresham'', they all were
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• USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380)
  ''Yakutat'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Yakutat'' and ''Gresham'', they all were former
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...II. The motor torpedo boat tenders served in the Pacific during the latter half of the war, while the seaplane tenders saw service in virtually every theat ...ng second lives postwar. One became a specialized [[flagship]] late in her life. Some became [[oceanography|oceanographic]] and [[hydrography|hydrographic]
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• The Colony (TV series)
  ...Los Angeles, and follows ten cast members in an environment that simulates life after a global catastrophe.<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Allen |url=ht ...homa City, whose natural inclinations allow her to remain calm in extreme, life-threatening situations; thus, she has found herself most at home working in
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• Nag missile
  ...of 0.77 and a CEP of 0.9 metres, and has a 10-year maintenance-free shelf-life. ...ssile to hit targets was validated. Nag missile hit a target at a range of half a kilometers in just 3 seconds.<ref>[http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  ...unts lacking integral hoists: 12 – 15 rounds per minute}}</ref> Useful life expectancy was 4600 effective full charges (EFC) per barrel.<ref>Naval Weap ...of the mount. In enclosed mounts, he stood on a platform that was located half way up the back bulkhead of the enclosure. There was a hatch on the top of
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...production, eventually reducing the overall time needed to build a gun by half. In U.S. Army service, the Bofors was known as the '''40&nbsp;mm Automatic ...url=http://www.casr.ca/id-mcdv-midlife2.htm|title=The Kingston Class: 'Mid-Life' or Move Over for the MCDV?|accessdate=February 19, 2007|publisher=[[Canadi
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• GAU-8 Avenger
  ...n weight. The shells also have plastic [[driving band]]s to improve barrel life. They are imposing to examine and handle, measuring {{convert|11.4|in|mm}} ...ystem itself. However, this constant rate of fire would shorten the barrel life considerably and require added barrel inspections and result in shorter int
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...ere used, such as the M45 [[Quadmount]] used on the US [[M3 Half-track|M16 half-track]] carrier. Twin or quad-mount .50 M2 guns normally used alternating ...</ref> or perforate the hull plates and fuel tanks of a German [[SdKfz 251|half-track]] or [[Leichter Panzerspahwagen|light armored car]].<ref name="Barnes
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• Sentry gun
  ...me)|Portal]]'', also made by the creators of the [[Half-Life_(series)|Half-Life game series]] prominently features sentry guns that deliver humorous dialog ...ist of Combine combat technology in Half-Life 2#Turret|Sentry guns in Half-Life 2]]
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  During their long service life, rangekeepers were updated often as technology advanced and by World War II ...r aboard the {{USS|Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.|DD-850|6}} is protected with one-half inch of armor plate and weighs 16 tons.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/p
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• Alternator
  ...imes give the frequency in terms of alternations per minute, counting each half-cycle as one ''alternation''; so 12,000 alternations per minute corresponds ...an a DC generator, and the [[slip ring]]s allow for greatly extended brush life. The stronger construction of automotive alternators allows them to use a s
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• Quinine
  | elimination_half-life = ~18 hours ...pelled before it is completely absorbed; this can be corrected by giving a half dose again.
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