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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  |Ship out of service= ...ly]] for his actions during the [[Battle of the Aleutian Islands|battles]] of [[Kiska]] and [[Attu]].
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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  |Ship builder=[[Western Pipe and Steel Company]], [[San Pedro, California]] |Ship out of service=
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• Nitrous oxide
  | Legal_status = <!-- All U.S. states except for [[California]] allow nitrous oxide as an [[anesthetic]]. Also used in the [[United Kingd ...ocket]]ry and in [[Auto racing|motor racing]] to increase the power output of [[Piston engine|engines]]. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a pow
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• Resin identification code
  [[File:Mint box polypropylene lid.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Polypropylene]] lid of a [[Tic Tac]] box, with a [[living hinge]] and the resin identification cod ...tic]]s to identify the [[polymer]] type. It was developed by the [[Society of the Plastics Industry]] (SPI) in 1988, and is used internationally.
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• J. Gordon Melton
  | residence = [[Santa Barbara, California]] | work_institution = [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  | death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]], United States ...ewanted=all William Grimes, "Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics," New York Times, June 29, 2001]</ref><ref name="Angelicum">[http:
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• Tar
  ...rgest user was the [[Royal Navy]]. Demand for tar declined with the advent of iron and steel ships. ...(fuel)|coke]] production. [[Bitumen]] is a term used for natural deposits of oil "tar" - such as at the [[La Brea Tar Pits]].
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• Super Adobe
  .... Due to Super Adobe’s inexpensive nature, ease in construction, and use of locally available materials, it has also been proposed for use as a long te ==History==
  17 KB (2,631 words) - 10:21, 20 September 2010
• Wildfire suppression
  ...es and natural wilderness. Wildfire suppression also addresses the issues of the wildland-urban interface, where populated areas border with wildland ar ==History==
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• Electronic health record
  [[Image:VistA Img.png|thumb|300px|Sample view of an electronic health record based on images]] [[File:Electronic medical record.jpg|thumb|300px|Sample view of an electronic health record]]
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• John Howard (public health administrator)
  |image = John Howard of NIOSH.JPG |known_for = Director of NIOSH
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...eacher]]s or other leaders associated with the institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ...d as their founders. A few institutions were named by the founder in honor of a parent, child, spouse, or other close family member.
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• List of prizes named after people
  This is a list of '''[[prize]]s''' that are '''named after people'''. ''For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[Lists of etymologies]]''.
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• Marijuana Anonymous
  == History == ...Anonymous (the [[San Francisco Bay]] area), and Marijuana Anonymous ([[Los Angeles County]]). Other existing fellowships from [[Seattle]] and [[New York]] enf
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• Cannabis (drug)
  {{Dablink|For the plant genus, see [[Cannabis]]. For other uses of cannabis, see [[Cannabis#Industrial and personal uses|Cannabis - Industrial ...trichomes]] (commonly known as "crystals"), which contain large quantities of [[Tetrahydrocannabinol|THC]], [[Cannabidiol|CBD]] and other [[cannabinoids]
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• Fentanyl
  ...u/wpi/focus/spring96.htm |title=WCPI Focus on Pain Series: The Three Faces of Fentanyl |publisher=Aspi.wisc.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref> In ...08-03-01 |accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref> It has an [[LD50|LD₅₀]] of 3.1&nbsp;milligrams per kilogram in rats, 0.03&nbsp;milligrams per kilogram
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• Salvia divinorum
  | image_alt = A short green plant with many elliptical shaped leaves of arcuate venation ...[cloud forest]] in the isolated [[Sierra Madre de Oaxaca|Sierra Mazateca]] of [[Oaxaca]], Mexico, growing in shady and moist locations.<ref name=Reisfiel
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• Purple drank
  ...prite]] soft drink and pieces of [[Jolly Rancher]] candy. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from [[dye]]s in the cough syrup. ..., Number 2, Spring 2001. The name "lean" refers to "abusers’ propensity of having difficulty in standing up straight."</ref> '''syrup''',<ref name=Lei
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• Trichloroethylene
  ...ile [[anesthetic]] and as an inhaled obstetrical [[analgesic]] in millions of patients. ==History==
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...on (re-enactment).jpg|thumb|Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of [[general anesthesia]] by [[William T. G. Morton]] on October 16, 1846 in t ...physicians and other Eastern scholars maintained and advanced the practice of [[Medicine in medieval Islam|medicine]] in the [[Arab World]] during the mi
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