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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship notes=Served as U.S. [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)|USS ''Ab
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• USS Asheville (PGM-84)
  |Ship fate=transferred to the [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy]] as a training vessel ...74, the gunboat stood out of Apra Harbor bound ultimately for the [[United States]]. She stopped at [[Oahu]] from 4 to 6 July and arrived at [[San Diego, Cal
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• Williams Gun
  ...Other examples are now located at [[Kentucky Historical Society|Kentucky Military History Museum]] and the Watervliet Army Arsenal Museum. *Rowland, Dunbar & Howell, H. Grady, Jr., "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898", Chickasaw Bayou Press, 2003, Library of
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• Parrott rifle
  ...gun was invented by [[Robert Parker Parrott]], a [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduate. He resigned from the service in 1836 and became the ...f name="Big Guns at Gettysburg">National Park Service: Gettysburg National Military Park. [http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/artillery.htm "Big Guns
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...h, 207 mile/h) at an altitude of 20 m (66 ft) in a shallow water military port, but also in a power-glide torpedo-bombing run, at the [[Nakajima B5N| ...e aircraft possible to torpedo-bomb not only warships anchorage in shallow military port but also warships steam in chopped waves of heavy sea in full speed.
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• Mefloquine
  | pregnancy_category = C <small>([[United States|U.S.]])</small> ...gap junction channels by mefloquine |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|PNAS]] |volume=101 |pmid=15297615 |issue=33 |pages=12364–1236
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• Nitrous oxide
  ...[California]] allow nitrous oxide as an [[anesthetic]]. Also used in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]]. --> ...f the Respirator. Also First to Liquefy Nitrous Oxide. Cadet at [[Virginia Military Institute]] at Time of [[Battle of Newmarket]]. Mentioned for the Nobel Pri
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• William Benton (senator)
  ...illiam Burnett Benton''' (April 1, 1900 – March 18, 1973) was a [[United States|U.S.]] senator from [[Connecticut]] (1949 - 1953) and [[publisher]] of the ...nesota]]. He was educated at [[Shattuck-Saint Mary's|Shattuck]] [[Military Academy]], [[Faribault, Minnesota|Faribault]], Minnesota, and [[Carleton College]]
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• Propædia
  ...ncode its place in the ''Outline's'' hierarchy. For example, the section "Military Technology" has the code "736" indicating that it is the 6th Section of the ...],<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[States of Matter]] || '''1.2.1'''&nbsp;Chemical&nbsp;[[Chemical element|Elements]]
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• Petroleum
  ...'t'' is in Celsius and ''d'' is the specific gravity at 15 °C.<ref>United States Bureau of Standards, "Thermal Properties of Petroleum Products". Miscellan ...bon dioxide and other gases or chemicals into the reservoir. In the United States, primary production methods account for less than 40% of the oil produced o
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• Emergency management
  ...aced ''Civil defense'', whose original focus was protecting civilians from military attack. Modern thinking focuses on a more general intent to protect the civ ...obability and the level of impact of a specific hazard. The equation below states that the hazard multiplied by the populations’ vulnerability to that haza
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• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom| ...[[Occupational safety and health|health, safety and welfare]] within the [[United Kingdom]].
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• Mining
  ...h|the municipality in [[Austria]]|Mining, Austria|the siege tactic|Mining (military)|name of the [[China|Chinese]] emperor|Daoguang Emperor}} ...edel. MIT Press. 2007. Pg.81</ref> The overwhelming dependency on iron for military purposes helped to spur increased iron production and extraction processes.
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• Burn pit
  ...ar|Iraq]] and [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]] the U.S. military, or its contractors such as [[KBR (company)#"Burn pits" lawsuits|KBR]] oper ...pied text is in the public domain as the work of an employee of the United States government while in the performance of their duties, accessed August 7, 201
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• Noise-induced hearing loss
  ...ment of Labor’s [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]] (OSHA) states that exposure to 85 [[decibel|dB]]([[A weighting|A]]) of noise, known as an *[[Military]]
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...e buildings of the failed [[University of Deseret]], forming Brigham Young Academy in 1876. Brigham Young University campuses in [[Brigham Young University-H | Founded in 1887 as a community school named Buies Creek Academy; became a junior college in 1926 and renamed in honor of its founder, a loc
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• List of places named after people
  *[[United States of America]] &ndash; [[Amerigo Vespucci]] or [[Richard Amerike]] *[[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]] &ndash; [[George III of the United Kingdom]], and [[John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich]] respectively (British
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• Trichloroethylene
  ...overall assessment of human health risks associated with trichloroethylene states, "[t]here is concordance between animal and human studies, which supports t ...tle -->]</ref> The [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] concluded that evidence on the carcinogenic risk and other po
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• Letelier case
  ...[Orlando Letelier]], a [[Chile]]an [[political figure]] and later [[United States]]-based [[activist]], along with his American assistant, [[Ronni Moffitt]]. In 1971, Letelier was appointed [[ambassador]] to the United States by [[Salvador Allende]], the socialist president of Chile.<ref>{{Harvnb|McC
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• Anniston, Alabama
  |subdivision_name = United States ...es of the Population for Incorporated Places in Alabama|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|date=2008-07-10|accessdate=2008-07-14}}</ref>
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