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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  [[File:USMC Barracks Lebanon 1983 Map.jpg|thumb|Sketch map of the route taken by the suicide bomber on the morning of 23 October 1983. [From the Long Commis ...engagement]] which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. By the time the two sentries had locked, loaded, and shouldered their weapons,
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  ...d redesignated AGP-9 on 11 May 1943. Launched on 21 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. D. R. Lee, she was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 18 June 1944 ...1, considered the voyage too long to be made "in one hop, even if escorted by tenders." The margin of safety for the ships to operate with, once they arr
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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 ...ed, portable, single-shot recoilless smoothbore weapon built in [[Sweden]] by [[Saab Bofors Dynamics]] (previously Bofors Anti-Armour Systems). [[Saab]]
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• Naloxone
  ...the depression of the central nervous system and respiratory system caused by opioids.<ref name=AHFS2015/> ...<!-- <ref name="nyti_Jack"/> --> The drug was approved for opioid overdose by the [[Food and Drug Administration]] in 1971.<ref name="nyti_Jack">{{Cite w
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• Codeine
  ...YP2D6.1, CYP2D6.10, and CYP2D6.17 |journal=Drug Metab. Dispos. |volume=35 |issue=8 |pages=1292–300 |year=2007 |month=August |pmid=17470523 |doi=10.1124/dm Codeine is found in concentrations of 0.3 to 3.0 per cent in opium prepared by the latex method from unripe pods of ''Papaver somniferum''. The concentra
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• Sodium nitrite
  ...ry soluble in [[water]] and is [[hygroscopic]]. It is also slowly oxidized by oxygen in the air to [[sodium nitrate]], NaNO₃. The compound is ...san | last1 = Southan | first1 = G | journal = Nitric Oxide | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | pages = 270}}</ref> Most research on negative effects of nitrites on
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...ability of ciprofloxacin |journal=Antimicrob Agents Chemother. |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=444–6 |year=1986 |month=September |pmid=3777908 |pmc=180577 |url ...otherapeutic agents under study] | journal = Nippon Rinsho | volume = 56 | issue = 12 | pages = 3096–9 | month = Dec | year = 1998 | pmid = 9883617 }}</re
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• Fluoxetine
  ...rotonin reuptake inhibitor]] (SSRI) class. It is manufactured and marketed by [[Eli Lilly and Company]]. ...Topics}}</ref><!-- the "third-most popular antidepressant claim" is gained by combining the two Verispan sources: "escitalopram" is found in the second s
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• Nitrous oxide
  ...ight than [[carbon dioxide]].<ref>2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) by Working Group 1 (WG1), [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar ...e he described how to produce the preparation of "nitrous air diminished", by heating iron filings dampened with [[nitric acid]].<ref name="Joseph Priest
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• Mercury (element)
  ...nd is mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar. Cinnabar is highly toxic by ingestion or inhalation of the dust. [[Mercury poisoning]] can also result ...oorly screens the nuclear charge that increases the attractive [[Coulomb's law|Coulomb interaction]] of the 6s shell and the nucleus (see [[lanthanide con
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• Zidovudine
  ...ained currency. It had long been known that most avian cancers were caused by retroviruses, but this knowledge was of limited use in clinical settings du ...hich would later prove useful. Zidovudine (AZT) was approved for marketing by the FDA on March 20, 1987.<ref name="Cimons">{{cite news | last = Cimons |
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• Morphine
  ...Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by [[Merck]] in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It ...ohol addiction. Commercial production began in Darmstadt, Germany in 1827 by the pharmacy which became the pharmaceutical compary Merck, with morphine s
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• Temazepam
  ...temazepam in soft gelatin capsules |journal=Br J Clin Pharmacol |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=31S–5S |year=1979 |pmid=41540 |pmc=1429631 |format=PDF }}</ref> ...ous depression |volume=19 |issue=10 |pages=1647–52 |pmid=4311716}}</ref> By the late [[1980s]], temazepam was one of the most popular and widely presc
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• Harry Ashmore
  ...stice| journal = [[The Virginia Quarterly Review]]| volume=71 | year=1995 |issue=2|id= {{ISSN|0042-675X}}|accessdate=2006-07-11}}</ref> ...of Arkansas. [[Francis Cherry]], the incumbent, had tried to smear Faubus by revealing that he had attended [[Commonwealth College, Arkansas|Commonwealt
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...om a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the day. This edition of the encyclopedia is no ...ume ninth edition and persuaded the British newspaper ''[[The Times]]'' to issue its reprint, with eleven additional volumes (35 volumes total) as the tenth
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...privately held company. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100&nbsp;full-time editors and more than 4,000&nbsp;expert contributo ...name="Giles_Nature_study_2005" /> although criticisms have been challenged by ''Britannica's'' management.<ref name="fatally_flawed" />
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...volumes, published 1704 and 1710, respectively), which contained articles by such contributors as [[Isaac Newton]]. [[Ephraim Chambers]] wrote a very po ...page from the first edition. The flow of short entries is interrupted here by one of the major treatises.]]
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...ommunicated to Islam by the ''Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity'' and by Avicenna to justify the notion of the Mother of the Book." From "On the Cul ...it has been ascribed to the later [[Majriti]] but this has been disproved by Yves Marquet (see the [[#Risalat al-Jami'a|''Risalat al-Jami'a'' section]])
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• Homeostasis
  ...ism]], the concept came from that of [[milieu interieur]] that was created by [[Claude Bernard]] and published in 1865. Multiple dynamic equilibrium adju Most homeostatic regulation is controlled by the release of hormones into the bloodstream. However, other regulatory pro
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• Friedel's salt
  ...tp://www.annales.org/archives/x/gfriedel.html Biography of Georges Friedel by F. Greandjean on annales.org., in French.]</ref> | issue = 3
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