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• Sugar Pine
  ...; specifically the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Coast Ranges, and the Sierra San Pedro Martir. ...0px|The Sugar Pine has long straight branches, weighed down at the tips by the cones.]]
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} ...ight.pdf | format = pdf | work = | publisher = Historian's Office, United States Coast Guard | accessdate = 25 April 2009 }}</ref>
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} |Ship length={{convert|315|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}}<ref name=DANFS />
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• Bofors
  {{For|the scandal involving Bofors AB's Indian contracts|Bofors scandal}} The name '''Bofors''' has been associated with the [[iron industry]] for more than 350 years.
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• QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun
  ...]] turret for [[HMS Shannon (1906)|HMS ''Shannon'']] under construction at the Vickers works, Barrow ...={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
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• Swedish Mauser
  ...'' (Model 1941) [[sniper rifle]].<ref>Jones, D: ''Crown Jewels: The Mauser in Sweden'', pp. 37, 59, 81, 93. Collector Grade Publications, 2003.</ref> ...ary [[Lee-Enfield]] rifle) instead of the "cock-on-opening" style found on the German [[Gewehr 98]].
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• Sodium chloride
  {{redirect|NaCl|the Google technology|Google Native Client}} {{about|the chemical compound|sodium chloride in the diet|Salt|sodium chloride as a mineral|Halite}}
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• Cicuta
  ...ae and may be confused with a number of other edible and poisonous plants. The common name hemlock may also be confused with poison hemlock (''[[Conium ma ...e of [[activated charcoal]] to decrease [[gastrointestinal]] absorption of the toxic principle along with supportive care including [[anticonvulsant]] dru
  29 KB (4,114 words) - 11:26, 7 July 2010
• Giant Hogweed
  :For the Genesis song "Return of the Giant Hogweed", see [[Nursery Cryme]] ...tefano Sommier|Sommier]]<!--1848-1922--> & [[Emile Levier|Levier]]<!--1839-1911-->
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• Amos Urban Shirk
  '''Amos Urban Shirk''' (1890? &ndash; October 20, 1956) was an [[United States|American]] businessman, author and [[bibliophilia|reader]] of [[encyclopedi ...the food industry. He wrote ''Marketing Through Food Brokers'', published in 1939 by [[McGraw-Hill]]. He invented a synthetic [[chicle]] and introduced
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• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  | foundation = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] ({{Start date|1768}}) | location_country = [[United States|U.S.]]
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...yclopaedia Britannica 1911.png|300px|thumb|right|Encyclopædia Britannica, the eleventh edition]] ...special value and interest to modern scholars as [[cultural artifact]]s of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899) | country = United Kingdom (1768–1900)<br>United States (1901–present)
  94 KB (12,721 words) - 12:31, 19 September 2010
• Propædia
  ...listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the ''Britannica''. ==The Outline of Knowledge==
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• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
  ...= The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World | image = [[Image:The know it all.jpg|180px]]
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...en developed, both online and on [[optical media]]. Since the early 1930s, the ''Britannica'' has developed several "spin-off" products to leverage its re ...nica''. The first encyclopedia to include biographies of living people was the 64-volume ''[[Grosses Universal-Lexicon]]'' (published 1732–1759) of [[Jo
  61 KB (8,890 words) - 12:32, 19 September 2010
• Catholic Encyclopedia
  ...e."<ref>[[s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Encyclopedia preface|Preface]] to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://oce.catholic.com/ ...clopedia and its Makers |location=New York |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Press|The Encyclopedia Press]] |pages=iii–viii |nopp=yes|oclc=748253}}</ref>
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• Petroleum
  ...s first used in the treatise ''De Natura Fossilium'', published in 1546 by the [[Germany|German]] mineralogist [[Georg Bauer]], also known as Georgius Agr ...es depending on the subsurface conditions, and on the [[phase diagram]] of the petroleum mixture.<ref name="Hyne 2001">Hyne (2001), pp. 1–4.</ref>
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• Paraffin
  {{two other uses||the fuel called "paraffin" in [[the UK]] and [[South Africa]]|Kerosene}} ...; they are found in the solid state at room temperature and begin to enter the liquid phase past approximately 37°C.
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• Colza oil
  ...ravity]] varying between 0.912 to 0.920. The cake left after extraction of the oil is a valuable feeding substance for [[pigs]]. ...ed before the introduction of [[mineral oil]]. The colza oil was used with the [[Argand burner]] because it was cheaper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccg-
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