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• Mercury (element)
  ...modern [[chemical symbol]] for mercury. It comes from ''hydrargyrum'', a [[Latin]]ized form of the [[Greek language|Greek]] word Ύδραργυρος (''hyd ...ref>{{cite book|author=Burkholder, M. and Johnson, L.|title=Colonial Latin America|publisher=Oxford University Press|year= 2008|pages=157–159}}</ref> Mercur
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• Morphine
  ...e reference to an opium-based elixir which he called ''laudanum'' from the Latin word ''laudare'' meaning "to praise." He described it as a potent painkille ...opium preparations were used for this purpose well into the 1960s in North America and Europe and in much curtailed fashion now and in other countries. Morph
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• Paracetamol
  ...J |volume=313 |issue=7058 |pages=689 |year=1996}}</ref> Colombia and other Latin American countries) and ''paracetamol'' (used elsewhere) both come from che ...], is the most widely available brand, sold in over 80 countries. In North America, paracetamol is sold in generic form (usually labeled as acetaminophen) or
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• Cicuta
  ...ve to [[temperate]] regions of the [[Northern Hemisphere]], mainly [[North America]] and [[Europe]], typically growing in wet meadows, along streambanks and o Water hemlock is considered one of North America's most toxic plants being highly poisonous to humans.<ref name="Schep"/> Th
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• Cryptostegia grandiflora
  ...an, [[East Africa]], [[Mauritius]], [[India]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Latin America]], the southern [[United States]], [[Fiji]] and [[New Caledonia]].
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• Digitalis lanata
  ...wing in woodland areas, on roadsides, and in mountainous regions. In North America, it can be found mostly in the Northeast and Southwest regions. It is culti ...gitlis,'' which means relating to a finger. Digit is a derivation from the Latin word ''digitus,'' which means finger or toe. Digitalis was first recorded i
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• Amianthium
  ..., known in English as '''fly poison''' from a literal translation of the [[Latin]] ''muscitoxicum'', and is noted for its pretty [[flower]]s and its toxic [ ...linated mostly by beetles.<ref name="fna"/> It is native to eastern North America, as far north as [[Pennsylvania]], west roughly to the [[Appalachian Mounta
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• Agave
  ...əˈɡeɪviː|}}<ref>An [[traditional English pronunciation of Latin|Anglo-Latin]] pronunciation. ''[[OED]]:'' "Agave".</ref>) is a [[genus]] of [[monocot]] ...southern and western [[United States]] and in central and tropical [[South America]]. They are [[Succulent plant| succulents]] with a large [[Rosette (botany)
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• Ageratum
  ...px?flora_id=1&taxon_id=100805 | title = Ageratum | work = [[Flora of North America]] }}</ref> to 60 tropical American [[herb]]s, annuals and perennials from t Most species are native to Central America and Mexico but four are native to the United States.<ref name="fna" />
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• Privet
  ...[[Himalayas]], [[Japan]] and [[Taiwan]]. The generic name originated in [[Latin]] and was applied by [[Pliny the Elder]] (23 CE – 79) to ''L. vulgare''.< ...s and displacing native species. This is particularly a problem in [[North America]], where no species of the genus occurs naturally.<ref>{{cite web | url=htt
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• Roland DXY 990
  0010 Spanish/Latin America<br/>
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• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  ...[Korea]], [[China]], [[Taiwan]], [[Italy]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Latin America]], [[Turkey]], [[Hungary]], and [[Poland]].
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  The '''''Encyclopædia Britannica''''' ([[Latin]] for "British Encyclopaedia") is a general English-language [[encyclopedia ...icated by permission to [[Barack Obama]] President of the United States of America and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."<ref name=propedia2010>''The New Encycl
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• Propædia
  | '''9.5'''&nbsp;Pre-Columbian&nbsp;America || '''9.5.1'''&nbsp;Andean&nbsp;Civilization&nbsp;to&nbsp;AD&nbsp;1540 '''9 ...d&nbsp;States&nbsp;and&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;1763—1920 '''9.6.6'''&nbsp;Latin-America&nbsp;and&nbsp;Caribbean&nbsp;to&nbsp;1920 '''9.6.7'''&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;a
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...clopedias did not include biographies of living people and were written in Latin, although some encyclopedias were translated into English, such as ''De pro ...volution, ending in 1776 with ‘The congress declare the United States of America independent of the crown and parliament of Great Britain.’ (''Encyclopæd
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• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
  ...of several thousand citizens of all the other countries of North and South America. The aim was to embrace all noteworthy persons of the New World. The work a ...upposed European botanists who had come to the New World to study in Latin America. By 1939, 47 fictitious biographies had been discovered, though only the le
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• Catholic Encyclopedia
  *[[Charles George Herbermann|Charles G. Herbermann]], Professor of [[Latin]] and Librarian of the [[City College of New York|College of the City of Ne ...ard A. Pace]], Professor of [[Philosophy]] at [[The Catholic University of America]], at Washington D.C.
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• Balsam of Mecca
  ...e" of the [[Parthians]] in his [[Naturalis Historia]]. In [[Latin language|Latin]] the resin was technically known as ''opobalsamum''; the dried fruit was c ...s [[The Handmaid's Tale]], is set in a post-apocalyptic [[United States of America]] now called "[[Republic of Gilead]]"; a rebellious character, Moira, twis
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• Petroleum
  '''Petroleum''' ([[Latin|L.]] ''petroleum'', from {{lang-la|petra}} rock + ''oleum'' oil<ref>{{Short ...ed_pricing_daily_california.asp |title=Chevron Crude Oil Marketing - North America Posted Pricing - California |publisher=Crudemarketing.chevron.com |date=200
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• Asphalt
  ...from the late Middle English : from French '''asphalte''', based on [[Late Latin]] '''asphalton''', '''asphaltum''', from the [[Greek language|Greek]] '''á ...ating," "pitch producing" (referring to coniferous or resinous trees). The Latin equivalent is claimed by some to be originally 'gwitu-men' (pertaining to p
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• Metal
  The term "ferrous" is derived from the [[Latin language|Latin word]] meaning "containing iron". This can include pure iron, such as [[wro ...importer of [[ores]] and metals in 2005 followed by the [[United States of America|U.S.A.]] and [[Japan]].<ref>[http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATIST
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• Ruthenium
  ...laus]] discovered the element in 1844 and named it after [[Ruthenia]], the Latin word for [[Etymology of Rus and derivatives|Rus']]. Ruthenium is found asso ...her platinum group metals in the [[Ural Mountains]] and in North and South America. Small but commercially important quantities are also found in [[pentlandit
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• Vermiculite
  ...[[Millbury]], [[Worcester County, Massachusetts]], USA. Its name is from [[Latin]] ''vermiculare,'' ''to breed worms,'' for the manner in which it [[exfolia ...r of asbestos products even had to discontinue selling anything to [[North America]] directly, having to rely now on surrogate trading companies for sales to
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• Spermaceti
  ...''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''sperma'', seed, and [[Latin language|Latin]] ''cetus'', whale) sometimes erroneously called ''parmaceti'' is a [[wax]] ...|first= Eric Jay |coauthors= |title= Leviathan, The History of Whaling in America |publisher= W.W. Norton & Co. |year= 2007 |month= |isbn= 978-0-393-6057-7 }
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• Quincha
  Quincha is a [[Spanish language|Spanish]] term widely known in [[Latin America]], borrowed from [[Quechua]] ''qincha''<ref>Real Academia Española. http:/
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• Terracotta
  ...iam-webster.com/dictionary/terra-cotta Merriam-Webster.com]</ref> from the Latin ''terra cocta'') is a [[clay]]-based unglazed [[ceramic]],<ref>[[OED]], "Te ...a belief in a Mother Goddess.<ref>Jacob Neusner, ed. <U>World Religions in America</U>. Louisville: [[Westminster John Knox Press]], 2003.</ref> The [[Burney
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• Thuja plicata
  ...[[tree]] in the cypress family [[Cupressaceae]] native to western [[North America]]. It is the [[Provincial tree emblems of Canada|Provincial tree]] of [[Bri ''Thuja plicata'' is one of two ''Thuja'' species native to North America, the other being ''[[Thuja occidentalis]]''. The species name ''plicata'' d
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• Cancer
  ...'''-carcinoma''', '''-sarcoma''' or '''-blastoma''' as a suffix, with the Latin or Greek word for the organ of origin as the root. For instance, a cancer o ...of [[hepatitis B]] patients per year (especially in Asia, less so in North America), and in 1.4% of [[hepatitis C]] carriers per year. Liver cirrhosis, whethe
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• Pointing and calling
  ...ct/term/latin_america/mexico_2001_3.html|title=Terminal Evaluation - Latin America and the Caribbean|publisher=[[Japan International Cooperation Agency]]|acce
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...Europe) is synonymous with ''Industrial Hygiene'' (used in the US, Latin America, and other countries that received initial technical support or training fr ===United States of America===
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• Beryllium
  ...ch 243 tonnes (71%) came from mines and smelters in the [[United States of America]]. By 2008, the world's production of beryllium had decreased somewhat, to
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• Mining
  ===North and South America=== In [[North America]] there are ancient, prehistoric [[copper]] mines along [[Lake Superior]].<
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• Linda Rosenstock
  ...e World Health Organization. This included health effects studies in Latin America.<ref name=>"[http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/EWconf97/ec4rosen.h
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• Emerson Electric Company
  ...ican President and government authorities to open an operation for [[Latin America]] based in Costa Rica. They are planning to hire more than 500 engineers in .../magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/snapshots/143.html Fortune 500] list of America's largest corporations, as ranked by revenues.
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• Robert Bosch GmbH
  ...including its wholly owned subsidiaries such as Robert Bosch LLC in North America, is unusual in that it is an extremely large, privately owned corporation t ...ns of Bosch Group is located.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} In North America, Bosch employs about 24,750 people in 80 locations, generating $8.8&nbsp;bi
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• List of eponyms
  ...etal, subtly attached an association with his name. ''Lecoq'' (rooster) in Latin is ''gallus''. * [[Delmonico]], America's first restaurant--[[Delmonico steak]] (boneless Prime rib)
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• List of places named after people
  *[[Americas]] ([[North America]] and [[South America]]) &ndash; [[Amerigo Vespucci]] or [[Richard Amerike]] *[[United States of America]] &ndash; [[Amerigo Vespucci]] or [[Richard Amerike]]
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• List of atlases
  ...Microsoft/Encarta/Expedia World atlas], world atlas, plus atlas for North America and Europe to street level. *[http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/maps/blaeu/ 1645 Latin edition of Blaeu's Atlas] at [[UCLA]] (partial copy)
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• List of parasites of humans
  !Latin name (sorted) |[[Mexico]], Central America, South America - 16-18 million
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• Metamizole
  ...case-control study, is examining the incidence of agranulocytosis in Latin America and the role of metamizole.
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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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