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• GNU Free Documentation License
  This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements t ...commend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...tates Navy]] and the [[United States Marine Corps]]. The Hospital Corpsman works in a wide variety of capacities and locations, including shore establishmen ...red to as Loblolly Boy, a term borrowed from the British Royal Navy, and a reference to the daily ration of porridge fed to the sick. The nickname was in common
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• Soap
  ...alen, the best were German and ones from Gaul were second best. This is a reference to true soap in antiquity.<ref name=Partington>{{cite book|last=Partington| ...estle]]. William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James, bought a small soap works in Warrington in 1885 and founded what is still one of the largest soap bus
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• Creating long straight edges with hand tools
  in sets of three without having a reference standard. We were looking for something that But once you get calibrated it works pretty well. If I have been doing it a bit I can get
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• 15 cm SK C/25
  ...C/25'' guns used as coast defense guns. It is not listed in the reference works of either Gander and Chamberlain or Hogg, unlike most every other naval gun
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• QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
  |manufacturer=[[Elswick Ordnance Company]],<br>[[Vickers]],<br>Japan Steel Works<br>[[Canadian Pacific Railway]]<br>[[Gio. Ansaldo & C.]] ...on [[Royal Navy]] warships. In British service, "12 pounder" was a rounded reference to the projectile weight and "12 cwt" referred to the weight of the barrel
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...leeslover.com/USNAVY/CHAPTER-26-E-2 That chapter] is an excellent detailed reference that explains much of the system's design, which is quite ingenious and for
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...ed torpedo runs out of control. Though the gyrocompass and the depth meter works well, the torpedo cannot control the running direction by tail rudders unle ...utral center position, the tiny mechanical system in the control air valve works. When it rolls back within the tilt angle 10 degree, the controller now cou
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• Ciprofloxacin
  The patent history for ciprofloxacin makes reference to a 1982 European Patent (patent number 0049355), as well a German patent * [http://health.howstuffworks.com/cipro.htm How Stuff Works - Cipro]
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• Epinephrine
  ...roots ''ad-'' and ''renes'' and literally means ''on the [[kidney]]'', in reference to the adrenal gland's anatomic location on the kidney. The [[Greek languag ...L form is the active component.<ref name="Malhotra"/> Racemic epinephrine works by stimulation of the α-adrenergic receptors in the airway with resultant
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• Mercury (element)
  ...', also known as '''quicksilver'''<!--ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quicksilver|title=quicksilver definition|dateformat=mdy|accessda ...her = United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works}}</ref> Mercury is also found in [[liquid mirror|liquid-mirror telescopes]]
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• Paracetamol
  <!-- Commented out for [[WP:SYNT]]; I can't find any reference to support this chain of consequences. (Xasodfuih) ...and infants, as well as for adults,<ref>"Acetaminophen." Physicians' Desk Reference, 63rd ed. Montvale, NJ: Thomson PDR; 2009: 1915-1916.</ref>, although rare
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• Diazepam
  ...of benzodiazepines during pregnancy, labour and lactation, with particular reference to pharmacokinetic considerations | journal = Drugs. | volume = 23 | issue ...es-diazepam-lorazepam-alprazolam.html Flash animation about how bromazepam works (mechanism of action)]
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• EDTA
  ...d/articles/ethylenediaminetetraacetic-acid-000302.htm|title=Home > Medical Reference > Complementary Medicine > EDTA overview|work=University of Maryland Medica }}</ref> This method works with sample volumes as small as ~7-8 nL.<ref name="sheppard"/>
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• Digitalis
  ..."Digitalis"</ref> or {{IPA|/ˌdɪdʒɨˈtælɨs/}}<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/digitalis Digitalis] at Dictionary.com]</ref>) is a genus of abo ...obably that the name was in the first place, ''foxes' glew'', or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ;Reference works ...s'', which was originally published in 1978, has become a standard work of reference that outstrips the number of groups that Clark was able to identify and cla
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...pædia Britannica''''' '''Eleventh Edition''' (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''<nowi ...ng, some of the book-length articles divided into smaller parts for easier reference, yet others heavily abridged. The best-known authors generally contributed
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | genre = [[Reference work|Reference]] [[encyclopedia]] ...Web]]. Since the early 1930s, the company has promoted spin-off reference works.<ref name="encyclopedia_1954"/>
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• A & C Black
  ...rst book, ''[[The Pothunters]]'', and went on to produce many of his early works. ...l Dictionary]]'' and the ''Know The Game'' series of sports rules and laws reference books [http://www.knowthegame.co.uk/default.asp?id=12].
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• Joseph McCabe
  ==Works== '''Some Other Works:'''
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