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  • Fallout shelter
    During the Cold War many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities. Plans were made, however, to use ...tectives/pdf/709_near.pdf</ref> In the U.S. in September 1961 the Federal Government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program.<ref>
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  • 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
    ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]] ...s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the United States|United States]] and [[Military of France|French military forces]]—members of the Multin
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  • USS Ricketts (DE-254)
    ...isarming of the Japanese on that bypassed island, and to set up a military government. Further duty included the repatriation of natives of [[Pohnpei|Ponape]] an * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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  • USS Vance (DE-387)
    ...aircraft entering or approaching the air space of the northwestern United States. On Labor Day 1957, ''Vance'' drew emergency duty—an engineering casualty ...r, as the United States stepped up its efforts to aid the South Vietnamese government in countering internal and external communist aggression, the ship received
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  • USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
    ...in the [[Mediterranean]] and the [[United Kingdom]] and back to the United States. Here is a list of the ETO convoys: ...e 18 months, breaking the routine duty with a visit to [[Belgium]] and the United Kingdom in August 1958.
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  • USS Camp (DE-251)
    ...n command; and reported to the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|United States Atlantic Fleet]]. ...and a half of convoy escort operations from [[New York]] to ports of the [[United Kingdom]], guarding convoys whose ships brought troops and mountains of equ
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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 Castle Rock (AVP-35)
    |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Loaned to [[United States Coast Guard]] 16 September 1948<br/>Permanently transferred to Coast Guard
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  • USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
    ..., WAGW-387) sometime after the Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships. |Ship country=United States
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  • USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
    |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Coast Guard]] 27 May 1946
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  • USCGC Chincoteague (WAVP-375)
    ...sometime between 1949 and the Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] markings on its ships. |Ship country=United States
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  • USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
    |Ship fate=Turned over to the [[United States Coast Guard]] |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}}
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  • Barnegat class seaplane tender
    The '''''Barnegat'' class''' was a large class of [[United States Navy]] small [[seaplane tender]]s built during [[World War II]]. Thirty wer Before World War II, the United States Navy foresaw a need for a large force of seaplane tenders in the event of a
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  • Sugar beet
    The European Union, the United States, and Russia are the world's three largest sugar beet producers,<ref>[http:/ In the United States, genetically modified sugar beets resistant to [[glyphosate]] (marketed by
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  • Arc Welding
    ...ese masks to be used for arc welding, but they were not used in the United States. They may have disappeared.<ref>''Papers of the International Shipyard Heal
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  • USCGC Triton (WPC-116)
    |Ship country=[[United States]] |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} {{USN flag|1967}}
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  • USS Tacoma (PGM-92)
    ...k = [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] | publisher = [[United States Navy]] }}</ref> The keel of ''Tacoma'' was laid 24 July 1967 at the Tacoma ...urned to Guam on 27 May and commenced preparations to return to the United States.
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  • USS PC-1141
    |Ship country={{nowrap|United States}} ...-1141''''' was a {{sclass|PC-461|submarine chaser}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She was renamed '''USS ''Pierre'' (PC-1141)
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  • Armstrong Gun
    ...ught iron]] coils which kept the central tube under compression<ref>Holley states that [[Daniel Treadwell]] first patented the concept of a central steel tub ...ng guns. In 1864, even before they had concluded their investigations, the Government stopped the manufacture of Armstrong breech-loaders. When the Committee fin
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  • Air Defense Anti-Tank System
    ...t of an extensive competition during which it was selected by the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] for the Forward Area Air-Defense (FAAD)<ref>[http://www.fa In September 2005, the [[Government of Canada|Canadian Government]] and the [[Canadian Forces]] announced a modernization program, transformi
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  • 14"/50 caliber gun
    |origin= {{flag|United States}} ...rk B was the most powerful 14&nbsp;inch weapon ever designed by the United States. However, the prototype of this gun was not completed.<ref name="mark b" />
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  • 5"/38 caliber gun
    |origin= United States The '''Mark 12 5"/38 caliber gun''' is a [[United States|US]] naval gun.
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  • 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun
    |origin= United States ...r countries. It consisted of the Mark 18 gun and Mark 42 gun mount. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fires a projectile 5&nbsp;inches (1
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  • Dahlgren gun
    ...Admiral John A. Dahlgren.<ref>''Admiral John A. Dahlgren: Father of United States Naval Ordance'' - Page 26 by Clarence Stewart Peterson, John Adolphus Berna ...red to be Dahlgen designs. In Mrs. Dahlgren’s petition to the national government for compensation for the use of Admiral Dahlgren's inventions, both the 32-
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  • M230 Chain Gun
    |origin= [[United States]] |used_by= [[United States of America]], and other countries
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  • M2 Browning machine gun
    |origin= {{flag|United States}} ...e War]] <br>[[Falklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operat
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  • Parrott rifle
    The gun was invented by [[Robert Parker Parrott]], a [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduate. He resigned from the service in 183 ...came in two bore sizes: 2.9 inch (74 mm) and 3.0-in (76 mm). [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] forces used both bore sizes during the war, which added
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  • QF 1 pounder pom-pom
    |origin= {{flag|United Kingdom}} ...War Memorial Committee|accessdate=2008-08-28}}</ref>, was an early 37 mm [[United Kingdom|British]] [[autocannon]]. It was used by several countries initiall
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  • TEC-9
    {{flag|United States}} ...[Carl Gustav M/45]] for military applications, Interdynamic did not find a government buyer, and the gun did not enter production.{{Citation needed|date=November
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  • Type 91 torpedo
    ...two, returned their base safely. Original photo is PD, the Property of US Government. ...]], an operating division of the Ministry of the Navy of Imperial Japanese government, which had the primary responsibility for naval weapon system, had their ow
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  • Hydroelectric
    ...gest, switched to support Alcoa aluminum in Bellingham, Washington, United States for American World War II airplanes before it was allowed to provide irriga ...<ref>http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/energy/topics/1750/</ref> The government-run power utilities in these provinces are called [[BC Hydro]], [[Manitoba
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  • Quinine
    | pregnancy_category = C <small>([[United States of America|USA]])</small>, D <small>([[Australia|Au]])</small> ...is available with a prescription in the [[United States of America|United States]] and over-the-counter, in very small quantities, in [[tonic water]]. Quini
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  • Chloroquine
    ...was considered too toxic for human use. During World War II United States government-sponsored clinical trials for anti-malarial drug development showed unequiv
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  • Naloxone
    ...p://www.tga.gov.au/hp/medicines-pregnancy.htm#.U1Yw8Bc3tqw|work=Australian Government|accessdate=22 April 2014|date=3 March 2014}}</ref> Naloxone is a pure [[opi ...BAJ&pg=PA174}}</ref> Its wholesale price is between 0.50 and 5.30 [[United States dollar|USD]] per dose.<ref>{{cite web|title=Naloxone HCL|url=http://erc.msh
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  • Lopinavir
    | pregnancy_category = C <small>([[United States|U.S.]])</small> ...atus = ℞-only <small>(U.S.)</small>, [[Prescription drug|POM]] <small>([[United Kingdom|UK]])</small>
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  • Ketamine
    ..., [[neurotoxicity]] and [[seizure]]s. The drug was first given to [[United States|American]] soldiers during the [[Vietnam War]]. It is still widely used in ...illicit use prompted ketamine's placement in Schedule III of the [[United States]] [[Controlled Substance Act]] in August 1999.<ref name="csa">{{Cite web| u
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  • Ciprofloxacin
    ...ted worldwide with over three hundred different brand names. In the United States, Canada, and the UK, it is marketed as '''Baycip''', '''Ciloxan''', '''Cifl ...ently approved by the United States [[Food and Drug Administration (United States)|Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) in 1987. Ciprofloxacin has 12 FDA-app
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  • Aspirin
    ...demark in [[France]], [[Russia]], the [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]], where it became a generic name and can be spelled in lower case.<ref>
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  • Mercury (element)
    In these compounds, mercury displays two oxidation states: +1 and +2. The +1 state oxidation involves the dimeric cation, Hg{{su|b=2| Higher oxidation states of mercury were confirmed in September 2007, with the synthesis of [[mercur
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  • Morphine
    ...//www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/ledain/nonmed4.htm Canadian Government Commission - Opiate Narcotics]</ref><ref>[http://civilwartalk.com/forums/ar Morphine became a controlled substance in the [[United States|US]] under the [[Harrison Narcotics Tax Act]] of 1914, and possession witho
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  • Ephedrine
    ...[[methcathinone]]. Ephedrine is listed as a Table I precursor under the [[United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrop Ephedrine distribution is controlled by the government, and pharmacists may refuse to sell it to customers without a prescription.
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  • Diazepam
    Diazepam was the top-selling pharmaceutical in the [[United States]] from 1969 to 1982, with peak sales in 1978 of 2.3 billion tablets.<ref na * Treatment of [[anxiety]], [[panic attacks]], and states of [[excitement|agitation]]<ref name="DrugBank" />
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  • Cicuta
    ...Stinchfield | authorlink = | title = An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California| publisher = Stanford University Press ...te web | last = | first = | title = Water Parsnip | work = | publisher = Government of Saskatchewan | date = | url = http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/Default
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  • Agave
    ...[[Mexico|Mexican]], agaves occur also in the southern and western [[United States]] and in central and tropical [[South America]]. They are [[Succulent plant ...r blue agave plant, to rigorous specifications and only in certain Mexican states.
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  • Giant Hogweed
    ...t agency"/> It has also spread in the northeastern and northwestern United States and central Canada. It is equally a pernicious [[invasive species]] in Germ ...culture]].<ref>"Invasive and Noxious Weeds: Federal Noxious Weeds," United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service [http://pl
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  • Autarky
    ...lf-sufficiency|self-sufficient]]. Usually the term is applied to political states or their [[economic]] policies. Autarky exists whenever an entity can survi ...t Robert LeFevre used "autarchy" and "[[autarchism]]" in the sense of self-government to describe his own political philosophy and to distinguish it from [[anarc
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  • Airspeed Oxford
    ..., including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Poland, and the United States. Following the end of the conflict, the Oxford continued to achieve export ...xpansion of the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) had been directed by the British government, which led to the formulation and issuing of a number of [[operational requ
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  • Temazepam
    [[File:Temazepam DOJ.jpg|thumb|15 & 30 mg capsules ([[United States|US]])]] The United States Air Force uses temazepam as one of the hypnotics approved as "no-go pills"
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica
    | country = United Kingdom (1768–1900)<br>United States (1901–present) ...'Index'' preface}}</ref> Although publication has been based in the United States since 1901, the ''Britannica'' has maintained [[American and British Englis
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  • Propædia
    ...],<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]] ...nsation]],&nbsp;[[Perception]] '''4.3.3'''&nbsp;[[Psychology|Internal&nbsp;States]]&nbsp;Affecting&nbsp;[[Behavior]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;[[consciousness|Conscious&
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