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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. ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]]
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship namesake=[[Willoughby Spit|Willoughby Bay]], an [[estuary]] of [[Hampton Roads]] in [[Virginia]]
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• BRP Francisco Dagohoy (PF-10)
  |Ship flag=[[Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg|60px]] |Ship out of service=
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  |Ship caption=USS ''Barnegat'' (AVP-10), lead ship of the ''Barnegat''-class small seaplane tenders, in [[Puget Sound]] on 14 Oct ...s version of the company's name, which also is referred to in ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entries as "Associated Shipbuilding Company
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• 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41
  ...pons of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns. ...the guns were universally known as the ''Acht-acht'' (8-8), a contraction of ''Acht-komma-acht Zentimeter'' (German: "8,8 cm" - comma being used as the
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• The Colony (TV series)
  | location = 516 S Anderson St, Los Angeles, California, United States ...s filmed in an industrial area bordering the Los Angeles River on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, and follows ten cast members in an environment that s
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• AT4
  |wars= <li>[[United States invasion of Panama|U.S. invasion of Panama]]<ref name="amnestysweden">http://www.svenskafreds.se/english/vapene ...). [[Saab]] has had considerable sales success with the AT4, making it one of the most common light [[Anti-tank warfare|anti-tank]] weapons in the world.
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• Parrott rifle
  The '''Parrott rifle''' was a type of [[Muzzleloader|muzzle loading]] [[Rifling|rifled]] [[artillery]] weapon use ...aduate. He resigned from the service in 1836 and became the superintendent of the [[West Point Foundry]] in [[Cold Spring, New York]]. He created the fir
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• Type 88 75 mm AA Gun
  |origin={{flag|Empire of Japan}} |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese Army]]
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...igned to be launched from an aircraft. It was used in the [[naval battle]] of carrier task forces in [[World War II]]. The Type 91 aerial torpedo rev.2 won the admiration of the world. This torpedo had two unique characteristics:
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• Codeine
  ...'et al'' |title=Comparative metabolic capabilities and inhibitory profiles of CYP2D6.1, CYP2D6.10, and CYP2D6.17 |journal=Drug Metab. Dispos. |volume=35 ...ylation process is still much more common. It is considered the prototype of the weak to midrange opioids.
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• Mercury (element)
  ...of any metal. A heavy, silvery [[d-block]] [[metal]], mercury is also one of the five [[liquid metal|metallic]] chemical elements that are [[liquid]] at ...f mercury (such as [[mercuric chloride]] or [[methylmercury]]), inhalation of mercury vapor, or eating seafood contaminated with mercury.
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• Diazepam
  ...09F.SGM}}</ref> The pharmacological action of diazepam enhances the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA by binding to the benzodiazepine site on the [[GA ...s-2008"/> Diazepam also has abuse potential and can cause serious problems of addiction. Urgent action by National Governments to improve prescribing pra
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• J. Gordon Melton
  | nationality = [[United States|American]] | work_institution = [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image = {{Double image|center|Spine of Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica.jpg|49|Americanized Encyclopædia Bri | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899)
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• The World Factbook
  | image_caption = Last Government print edition of ''The World Factbook'' (2010 edition) cover. | genre = [[almanac]] about the countries of the world
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• Copyright status of work by the U.S. government
  ...)]</ref> but not state or local governments. In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act,<ref name=17usc105>{{USC|17|105}}</ref> such works are no ...only speaks about domestic copyright. The USA can still hold the copyright of those works in other countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cendi.gov/pub
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• Depleted uranium
  [[File:30mm DU slug.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The DU penetrator of a [[30 mm]] round<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060716085611/http://www ...shed from DU produced as a byproduct of uranium enrichment by the presence of [[uranium-236|U-236]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.un.org/News/Press/do
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• Coffea
  {{About|the biology of coffee|the beverage|Coffee}} |image2_caption = Mature fruit of a ''Coffea'' species
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• Hemp
  {{About|industrial hemp|its psychoactive variant|Cannabis (drug)|the biology of the plant|Cannabis|other uses|Hemp (disambiguation)}} [[Image:Cannab2 new.png|thumb|right|The variety of appearances for cannabis. Only ''C. sativa'' (left) is suited for industria
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