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• Fallout shelter
  ...ut shelter.jpg|thumb|A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City.]] ...occupants from radioactive debris or [[nuclear fallout|fallout]] resulting from a [[nuclear explosion]]. Many such shelters were constructed as [[civil def
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |image=Beirutbarr.jpg|300px|caption=A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport. ...edate=2009-05-07|deadurl=no|accessdate=2009-03-08}}</ref>—receiving help from the Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref name=Ranstorp>Ranstorp, ''Hizb'allah'' (1
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• USCGC Rockaway (WAVP-377)
  ...ckaway Inlet]], on [[Long Island]], [[New York]], at the entrance to [[New York Bay]] ...avy]] to [[U.S. Coast Guard]] 24 December 1948<br/>Transferred permanently from U.S. Navy to U.S. Coast Guard 26 September 1966
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...red by British [[Royal Navy]] in 1912. All guns on a single ship were laid from a central position placed above the bridge as high as possible. The directo *Coordinated gunfire from a formation of ships at a single target was a focus of battleship fleet ope
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• Hydroelectric
  ...20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewable sources.<ref name="REN21-2006">[http://www.ren21.net/globalstatus ...p://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/hydro.htm Hydroelectric power - energy from falling water] Clara.net</ref>
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• Quinine
  ...[[Jesuit's bark]] and became one of the most valuable commodities shipped from Peru to Europe. ...Joseph Pelletier]] and [[Joseph Bienaimé Caventou]]. The name was derived from the original [[Quechua]] (Inca) word for the cinchona tree bark, "quina" or
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• Ketamine
  ...gency surgery when the patient's fluid volume status is unknown (''e.g.'', from traffic accidents). Ketamine can be used in [[podiatry]] and other minor su ...|respiratory]] and [[circulatory system|circulatory]] systems is different from that of other anesthetics. When used at anesthetic doses, it will usually s
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• Ciprofloxacin
  | image2 = Ciprofloxacin-zwitterion-from-xtal-3D-balls.png ...one-resistant Campylobacter species and the withdrawal of fluoroquinolones from use in poultry: a public health success story. | journal = Clin Infect Dis
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• Fluoxetine
  ...77, Dista Products Company, a division of Eli Lilly & Company, presented a new drug request to the [[U.S. Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) for fluoxet ...03"/> Furthermore, increase of the dose to 60&nbsp;mg/day in nonresponders from 20&nbsp;mg/day brought no additional benefits as compared to continuing the
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• Nitrous oxide
  The gas was first synthesized by [[English people|English]] [[natural philosopher]] and chemist [[Joseph Priestley]] in 1772, ...reathing apparatus" to inhale the gas. Second, the book also presented the new medical theories by Thomas Beddoes, that [[tuberculosis]] and other lung di
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• Morphine
  | image2 = Morphine-from-xtal-3D-balls.png ...aver somniferum]]''. Morphine was the first [[active principle]] purified from a plant source and is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different typ
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• Oriental Staff Vine
  ....html ''Celastrus orbiculatus'' - Oriental Bittersweet Vine]. Conservation New England. Accessed 31 October 2009.</ref> and is considered to be an [[invas ...candens and spread of the non-native Celastrus orbiculatus in the New York City metropolitan area. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130(2): 143-146<
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...= <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see [[WP:NONFREE]] --> | field = [[religion]], [[new religious movements]]
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• Christine Sutton
  ...isher = [[Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.]] | location = [[New York City|New York]] | pages = p. 547}}</ref> [[Category:Living people]]
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• Harry Ashmore
  ...er]]s at both Greenville High School and Clemson College. After graduation from Clemson, Ashmore worked as a [[newspaper]] [[reporter]], first at the ''Gre ..., and newspapers around the United States reprinted the speech or excerpts from it.<ref name=eahc/>
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• A. J. Jacobs
  | birth_place = [[New York City]] ...Jr.,''' commonly called '''A.J. Jacobs''' (born March 20, 1968, [[New York City]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Media of the United States|journalist
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• William Benton (senator)
  ...'' (April 1, 1900 – March 18, 1973) was a [[United States|U.S.]] senator from [[Connecticut]] (1949 - 1953) and [[publisher]] of the ''[[Encyclopædia Br ...=frontcover ''Walt Disney: the triumph of the American imagination''], New York : Random House, 2006. ISBN 978-0-679-43822-9. Cf. p.444</ref>
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899) ...n topics.<ref name="index_preface">{{cite book | year = 2007 | title = The New Encyclopædia Britannica | edition= 15^th edition, ''Index'' pref
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  | birth_place = [[New York, New York]], [[United States]] ...m Grimes, "Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics," New York Times, June 29, 2001]</ref><ref name="Angelicum">[http://www.angelicum.net/
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...[[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], who argued that death alone should not render people notable. [[Image:Britannica 1st ed.jpg|thumb|Title page from the first edition]]
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