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• Cannabis
  '''''Cannabis''''' (''[[Syllable stress of Botanical Latin|Cán-na-bis]]'') is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s that includes three ...|Greek]] {{lang|grc|κάνναβις}} (''{{lang|grc|kánnabis}}'') (see [[Latin]] ''{{lang|la|cannabis}}''),<ref>"cannabis" OED Online. July 2009. [[Oxford
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• Joint (cannabis)
  ...This is known as a crutch or "[[Roach (drug culture)|roach]]." In North America "roach" usually means the smoked-down butt of a joint. In North America since the 1990s, a "[[Blunt (marijuana cigar)|blunt]]" is rolled using a ci
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• Ketorolac
  ...s commonly available over-the-counter in Mexico and other areas of [[Latin America]], at the pharmacist's discretion.
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• Meloxicam
  ...brand name Mobic, in Germany as Mobec, and in Canada as Mobicox. In Latin America, the drug is marketed as Tenaron, Ilacox, Mavicam, or Melocam. A [[veterina
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...ce of the poppy and it may be the [[etymology|etymological]] origin of the Latin "''[[papaver]]''".<ref name=Terry1928/> ...001>{{Cite book|last=Fenster|first=JM|title=Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It|place=New York
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• Letelier case
  ...initiated by [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] [[dictatorship]]s in South America to [[Intelligence (information gathering)|gather intelligence]] on oppositi ...he Letelier assassination, [[Henry Kissinger|Kissinger]] ordered "that the Latin American rulers involved be informed that the 'assassination of subversives
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• Militant
  ...ich is both an [[adjective]] and a [[noun]], comes from the 15th Century [[Latin]] "''militare''" meaning "to serve as a [[soldier]]". The related modern co ...st, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Jaguar books on Latin America, no. 26. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Page 238.</ref> conven
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• Terrorism
  "Terror" comes from a Latin ''terrere'' meaning "to frighten".<ref name=tws11janrdw>{{cite news ...umnist William Safire wrote that the word "terrorist" has its roots in the Latin terrere, which means "to frighten."
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...ement (in particular the new importance of anarcho-syndicalism in European Latin countries such as France, Italy and Spain) and the influence of the [[Octob ...y and anarchists: a history of the red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe : communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed : t
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• Guerrilla warfare
  '''Latin America:''' ...ng the war in Vietnam in the 1960s,<ref>Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos, Steerforth Press, 1996 |isbn=9781883642365</ref>
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• Organized crime
  ....."<ref>Sullivan, Robert, ed. ''Mobsters and Gangsters: Organized Crime in America, from [[Al Capone]] to [[Tony Soprano]].'' New York: Life Books, 2002</ref> ...ch as the [[Crips]] and [[Bloods]], [[Florencia 13]], [[Latin Kings (gang)|Latin Kings]], [[Tiny Rascal Gangsters]], [[Trinitarios]], [[Dominicans Don't Pla
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  ===[[Latin America|Latin American]] drug cartels=== ** [[Black Eagles]] <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11274221 BBC News - New armed drug-trafficking groups menace Colombia]</ref
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• Luis Posada Carriles
  ...thors= |title=Anti-Castro Extremists Tolerated, if Not Encouraged, by Some Latin American Nations. |url=http://www.tni.org/letelier-docs/151176.htm |quote=M ==Contras and Central America (1985 - 2005)==
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• Caltrop
  ...-trap). The synonymous Latin word ''[[tribulus]]'' gave rise to the modern Latin name of a plant offering similar hazards to sandaled or bare feet, ''[[Trib ...scoveries at Jamestown, Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America By John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson 1957 [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1
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• Butter
  The word ''butter'' derives (via [[Germanic languages]]) from the [[Latin]] ''butyrum'', which is borrowed from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''boutyr ...tional uses which are specific to certain cultures. For instance, in North America, applying butter to the handle of a door is a common prank on [[April Fools
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• Cheese
  ...eus'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Simpson | first = D.P. | title = Cassell's Latin Dictionary | publisher = Cassell Ltd. | year = 1979 | edition = 5 | locatio ...d West-Germanic form ''*kasjus'', which in turn is an early borrowing from Latin.
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• Yoghurt
  ...alphabet|a variant of the Arabic alphabet]] until the introduction of the Latin alphabet in 1928. In older Turkish, the letter denoted a [[voiced velar fri ...ɒɡət|}}) in the UK, with a long ''o'' ({{IPA|/ˈjoʊɡərt/}}) in North America, Australia and South Africa, and with either a long or short ''o'' in New Z
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