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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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• Ketamine
  ...uman liver microsomes |journal=Drug Metabolism and Disposition |volume=30 |issue=7 |pages=853–8 |year=2002 |month=July |pmid=12065445 |doi=10.1124/dmd.30. ...d its use in pediatric anesthesia |journal=Anesthesia Progress |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=10–20 |year=1999 |pmid=10551055 |pmc=2148883}}</ref> and is used
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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 ...with oxygen in air to form [[mercury oxide]], which then can be decomposed by further heating to higher temperatures.<ref name=patnaik>{{cite book|last =
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• James Louis Garvin
  ...rish laborer who died at sea when Garvin was two, leaving him to be raised by his mother Catherine. Though a voracious reader, he left school at the age ...ough anonymous) contributor to the ''[[Fortnightly Review]]'', then edited by [[William Leonard Courtney|W. L. Courtney]].
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• Harvey Einbinder
  .... "A Great Encyclopedia Doesn't Have To Be Good?" ''Science'', Volume 144, Issue 3619, pp.&nbsp;665–666. - Review of Einbinder's ''The Myth of the Britann * "Politics and the new Britannica", ''The Nation'' '''220''':11:342-4 (1975) - Review
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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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• Petroleum
  ...was first used in the treatise ''De Natura Fossilium'', published in 1546 by the [[Germany|German]] mineralogist [[Georg Bauer]], also known as Georgius ...y variable between different [[oil fields]] and ranges from as much as 97% by weight in the lighter oils to as little as 50% in the heavier oils and [[bi
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• Depleted uranium
  ...can be distinguished from DU produced as a byproduct of uranium enrichment by the presence of [[uranium-236|U-236]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.un.o ...tentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites or can be inhaled by civilians and military personnel.<ref name="ncbi.nlm.nih.gov">Mitsakou C, E
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• Implications of nanotechnology
  * environmentally benign material abundance for all by providing universal clean water supplies ...he effects that the availability of nanotechnological devices will have on politics and human interaction
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• Wildfire
  ...n the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from other fires by its extensive size, the speed at which it can spread out from its original ...org/wgbh/nova/fire/plants.html | title = How Plants Use Fire (And Are Used By It) | author = Stephen J. Pyne | publisher = NOVA online | accessdate = 200
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• Mining
  ...[vein (geology)|vein]] or ([[coal mining|coal]]) seam. Materials recovered by mining include [[base metals]], [[precious metals]], [[iron]], [[uranium]], ...ound in [[chalk]] areas where seams of the stone were followed underground by shafts and galleries. The mines at [[Grimes Graves]] are especially famous,
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• List of eponymous laws
  ...the case with [[Moore's law]]. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as [[Murphy's law]]; or given [[eponym]]ous names despite the ...ngth]] in [[Scots language|Scots]] and [[Scottish English]] is conditioned by environment. Named for Professor [[A. J. Aitken]], who formulated it.
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• Salvia divinorum
  ...1983]], p.&nbsp;288.</ref> '''Seer's sage''',<ref name="Boire2002" /> and by its genus name ''[[Salvia]]'') is a [[Psychoactive drug|psychoactive]] plan ''Salvia divinorum'' has a long and continuous tradition of religious use by [[Mazatec shamans]], who use it to facilitate [[Altered state of consciousn
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• Beltway sniper attacks
  ...white van or truck. It was later learned that the rampage was perpetrated by one man, [[John Allen Muhammad]], and one minor, [[Lee Boyd Malvo]], drivin ...t the possibility of parole]]. On November 10, 2009, Muhammad was executed by [[lethal injection]].
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• Ted Kaczynski
  ...attract attention to the erosion of human [[Liberty|freedom]] necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization. ...arole]]. Theodore Kaczynski has been designated a "[[domestic terrorist]]" by the FBI.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/speeches/solomon02
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• Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  ...ing a life sentence for the crime. The shooting was recorded on audio tape by a freelance newspaper reporter, and the aftermath was captured on film. ...l Cemetery]]. His death prompted the protection of presidential candidates by the [[United States Secret Service]]. [[Hubert Humphrey]] went on to win th
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including [[Ramzi Yousef]], [[Mahmud Abouhalima]], ...ospital room when injured in a car crash – one of three accidents caused by [[Mohammed A. Salameh|Salameh]] in late 1992 and early in 1993.
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• 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
  | caption = Four of the restaurants in The Dalles affected by the attack ...hospitalized. There were no fatalities. Although an initial investigation by the [[Oregon Department of Human Services|Oregon Public Health Division]] a
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• Definitions of terrorism
  A 2003 study by Jeffrey Record for the [[United States Army|US Army]] quoted a source (Schm ...hist writer [[Johann Most]] helped popularize the modern sense of the word by dispensing "advice for terrorists" in the 1880s.<ref name="Crenshaw44">Cren
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