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• Ergonomics
  The coining of the term Ergonomics, however, is now widely attributed to British psychologist Hywel Murrell, at the 1949 meeting at the UK's [[Admiralty Hou * [[Rohmert's law]]
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• Occupational safety and health
  ...ay be reinforced in [[civil law (common law)|civil law]] and/or [[criminal law]]; it is accepted that without the extra "encouragement" of potential regul ‘The main influence on the Dutch law on the job of the safety professional is through the requirement on each em
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• Cadmium
  ...and its compounds may be toxic in certain forms and concentrations, the [[British Pharmaceutical Codex]] from 1907 states that [[cadmium iodide]] was used as ...|accessdate=2009-07-07|title=World Mineral Production 2002–06| publisher=British Geological Survey|chapter = Cadmium|page=15|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/3260
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• Mining
  ...been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the [[British Museum]] and the [[National Museum of Wales]].<ref>[http://www.romans-in-br ...And Corporate Responsibility]. In: ''International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy:
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• Electronic health record
  ...ogy |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=107 |year=2008 |month=Fall |url=http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v22/22HarvJLTech103.pdf|format=PDF}}</ref> | publisher = Northern Illinois University Law Review, Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2010
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• List of phobias
  * [[Xenophobia]] – fear/dislike of [[alien (law)|foreigners]]. *''Robophobia'' – a novel by [[Richard Evans (British author)|Richard Evans]]
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• Scientific phenomena named after people
  * [[Abney effect]], [[Abney's law of additivity]] — [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]] * [[Accot–Zhai steering law]] — [[Johnny Accot]] and [[Shumin Zhai]]
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...sity in 1979 with the opening of [[Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law|its law school]]. | Founded in 1818 by Ramsay, the British Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia
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• List of eponyms
  ...-Marie Ampère]] — [[ampere]] — unit of electric current, [[Ampère's law]] * [[Amedeo Avogadro]] — [[Avogadro's number]], [[Avogadro's Law]]
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• List of eponyms (L-Z)
  * [[Charles Lindbergh]], pilot — [[Lindbergh Law]] anti-kidnapping law * [[Charles Lynch (jurist)|Charles Lynch]] — [[lynching]], lynch law
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• List of eponymous laws
  ...There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as [[Murphy's law]]; or given [[eponym]]ous names despite the absence of the named person. * [[Scottish Vowel Length Rule|Aitken's Law]] — describes how [[vowel length]] in [[Scots language|Scots]] and [[Scot
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• List of American places named after people
  *[[Alcester, South Dakota]] &ndash; Colonel Alcester of the British army ...Maine]] and [[Appleton, Wisconsin]] &ndash; [[Samuel Appleton]] (father-in-law of [[Amos Lawrence]], founder of [[Lawrence University]])
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• List of prizes named after people
  | Outstanding body of work by a [[United Kingdom|British]] citizen writing in [[English language|English]] | Outstanding non-fiction book by a British writer
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• List of places named after people
  *[[Marshall Islands]] &ndash; [[John Marshall (British captain)|John Marshall]] *[[Bermuda]] &ndash; [[Juan de Bermúdez]] (British overseas territory)
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• Gabapentin
  ...of [[teratogenicity]] greater if more than one drug used<ref name="BNF">[[British National Formulary|BNF]] (March 2003) '''45'''</ref> ...verdict and the judge's rulings are not consistent with the facts and the law," he added, according to Reuters (3/26, Berkrot).
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• Kratom
  ...ecies, Mitragyna javanica, is often used as a substitute to get around the law, but it is not considered as effective. The dominant alkaloid in this speci ...eutics 1932, 46:251-71 und K. S. Grewal, The Effect of Mitragynine on Man, British Journal of Medical Psychology 1932, 12: 41-58
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• Tetrahydrocannabinol
  ...tle=Reefer madness--the federal response to California's medical-marijuana law |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=337 |issue=6 |pages=435–9 |year=1997 |m | journal = The British Journal of Psychiatry
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• Charas
  ...sold in government shops (along with [[opium]]) in the early days of the [[British Empire]]<ref name="commission">''Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission ...he 1980s and severe sentences were introduced. Even the mere [[Possession (law)|possession]] had a mandatory ten year prison sentence. These [[laws]] have
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...ly [[20th century]]. Since then, some [[countries]] have intensified the [[Law enforcement agency|enforcement]] of cannabis [[prohibition (drugs)|prohibit ...addition to marijuana. The reasons that [[hemp]] was also included in this law are disputed. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents reported that fields w
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• Buprenorphine
  ...06. In the [[Netherlands]], Buprenorphine is a List II drug of the [[Opium Law]], though special rules and guidelines apply to its prescription and dispen [[United Kingdom|British]] firm Reckitt & Colman (now [[Reckitt Benckiser]]) first [[marketing|marke
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• Methadone
  In the United States, federal law was changed in 2001 to eliminate some restrictions imposed on patients dose ...er="The College Of BC Pharmacists" | journal=The College Of Pharmacists Of British Columbia}}</ref>
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• Portal:Cannabis/Major topics
  ...bal Marijuana March|GMM]]{{·}} [[Legalise Cannabis Alliance|LCA]]{{·}} [[Law Enforcement Against Prohibition|LEAP]]{{·}} [[Marijuana Policy Project|MPP
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• William McIntosh
  ...orgia]] family sent into the Creek Nation to recruit them to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War. Captain McIntosh's mother, Jennet (or Janet i On April 30, 1825, the Law Menders, led by the Red Stick leader Menawa, set McIntosh's house on fire.
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• John F. Kennedy assassination
  which violated Texas state law{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}<!--if one of the cites at the end of this ...ure a federal officer while he was acting in the line of duty.<ref>[http://law.onecle.com/uscode/18/372.html 18 U.S.C. 372].</ref><ref>[http://www.aarclib
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• Militant
  ...rdcities/Palestine/terror-against-british.htm Jewish Terrorism Against the British]</ref><ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/jan/28/jewish-t ...nder certain circumstances be allowed within the limits of [[international law]] and [[civil disobedience]].
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...e range of [[Manhunt (Military)|military]] and [[manhunt (law enforcement)|law enforcement]] operations. ...force. The [[Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005]] was drafted to answer the Law Lords ruling and the [[Terrorism Act 2006]] creates new offences related to
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• Tablighi Jamaat and allegations of terrorism
  ...Evangelism|evangelist]]s working among poor and poorly educated Muslims in British India.<ref name=USIoPeace> [[Bazer Azmy]], a Law Professor at [[Seton Hall University]], and one of Guantanamo captive [[Mur
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• Insurgency
  ...=Goldstein-63> Goldstein, Erik; McKercher, B. J. C. ''Power and stability: British foreign policy, 1865-1965'', Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0-7146-8442-2, 9780714684 ...awfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with the [[law]] of the land, its use is neutral. However when it is used by a state or an
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• History of terrorism
  ...nal Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September], Australian Law and Bills Digest Group, Parliament of Australia Web Site, February 12, 2002 ...d/FW1434_Keystage2_07.pdf</ref> and the [[Boston Tea Party]], an attack on British property by the [[Sons of Liberty]] in 1773, three years prior to the [[Ame
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• Fatwa on Terrorism
  ...s further than ever and declares [[terrorism]] as [[kufr]] under [[Islamic law]].<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sheikh-issues-fatwa- ...el questioned the credibility of the Fatwa and asks if it was not by the [[British government]] due to the fact that senior [[counter-terrorism]] officials fr
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• Leaderless resistance
  ...vent of a [[Operation Sealion|German invasion]].<ref>{{cite web | author = British Resistance Organisation | title = History | url = http://www.parhamairfield ...nimal Rights Militia]] (ARM) in 1982. Letter bombs were sent to the then [[British Prime Minister]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], with two years later the name [[Hu
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• Terrorism
  ...nal Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September], Australian Law and Bills Digest Group, Parliament of Australia Web Site, 12 February 2002. Some definitions also include acts of [[Law|unlawful]] violence and war. The history of terrorist organizations suggest
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• Hostage
  ...rder to compel another party such as a [[kinship|relative]], [[employer]], law enforcement, or [[government]] to act, or refrain from acting, in a particu ...risis|Julius Caesar's hostage crisis in Armorica]] in 56 BC.</ref> and the British who had colonial [[vassal]]s, would especially receive many such political
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...to exist, you must take it... the policeman arrested me in the name of the Law, I struck him in the name of Liberty". * '''1970-1972'''. The British [[Angry Brigade]] group carries out at least 25 bombings (police numbers).
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• Guerrilla warfare
  ...s well as by [[Pazhassi Raja]] of [[Kerala]] to fight the [[United Kingdom|British]]. ...unded the [[Maratha Empire]] which lasted until it was superseded by the [[British Empire]].
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• Islam and violence
  ...es]] - Britain's 200-year jihad. It envolved also forced conversion of the British [[Christians]] into [[Islam]].<ref> ...d in the suppression of this revolt vary: the Ottoman figure is 3,100; the British, 12,000: the American, 15,000: and the Bulgarian, from 30,000 to 100,000.<r
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• Organized crime
  ...y based, used violence and intimidation, and adhered to their own codes of law."<ref name="ReferenceA"/> ...if the society lacks strong and established institutions and the [[rule of law]]. The [[collapse of the Soviet Union]] and the [[Revolutions of 1989]] in
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• Taliban
  ...wer, the Taliban enforced one of the strictest interpretations of [[Sharia law]] ever seen in the [[Muslim world]],<ref name="Harvnb|Rashid|2000|p=29">{{H ...ng005.htm JNV briefing].</ref> that operated according to Islamic [[Sharia law]], but [[Pakistan]] blocked the offer as it was not possible to guarantee h
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• Al-Qaeda
  ...ews Islamic law and decides if particular courses of action conform to the law. As a matter of law, the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] nee
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  ...ies, drug traffickers have taken advantage of local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dol ==[[United Kingdom|British]] crime 'firms'==
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• Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks
  ..., a joint venture formed specifically between Reston-based [[DynCorp]] and British-based [[Porton International]], to develop and store a warehouse of vaccine *February 25, 2002: "Federal law enforcement officials denied a newspaper report that the FBI had a identifi
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• Feroz Abbasi
  '''Feroz Abbasi''' is one of nine British men who were held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[United States]] [ ...ental welfare and, by his release, had not heard from him since late-2003. British officials last saw him in April 2003, although he kept silent for an hour.
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• Moazzam Begg
  | citizenship = [[United Kingdom|British]]/ [[Pakistan]]i ...egg''' ({{lang-ur|مواززم بغع}}), born 1968, is a [[United Kingdom|British]]/ [[Pakistan]]i [[Muslim]] who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in
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• Black site
  ...the UN convention, which would be a violation of the treaty and thus [[US law]]. British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] said that the report "added absolutely nothin
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• Combined Task Force 150
  On 17 August 2005, French [[Vice Admiral]] Jacques Mazars replaced British [[Royal Navy]] Commodore Tony Rix as commander of CTF-150. At the time, it ...e vessel in the Indian Ocean as part of an ongoing effort to help maintain law and order in the region.<ref name=SUSPECTED-PIRATES-CAPTURED-OFF-SOMALI-COA
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• Drone attacks in Pakistan
  *'''November 22, 2008:''' British Al-Qaeda operative [[Rashid Rauf]] and 4 others including [[Abu Zubair al-M ...Faqir Mohammed]]'s nephew, Zahid and another was Mohammed's unnamed son-in-law. The meeting was apparently being held to decide on whether to reinforce S
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  | title=Torture by proxy: International law applicable to ‘Extraordinary Renditions’ ...http://london.usembassy.gov/forpo916.html Interview of Secretary Rice With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw] on [[BBC]] [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4's]] [[Today
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• Forced disappearance
  ...ried out the act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of the law. ...f>[http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/14/algeri10485.htm Algeria: Amnesty Law Risks Legalizing Impunity for Crimes Against Humanity (Human Rights Watch,
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• Haqqani network
  *'''March, 2008''': Kidnapping of British journalist [[Sean Langan]] was blamed on the network.<ref>[http://www.guard ...mong 23 people killed was one of Jalaluddin's two wives, sister, sister in law and 8 of his grandchildren.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/as
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• Operation Enduring Freedom
  ...wk|Tomahawk cruise missile]]s launched from both U.S. and [[United Kingdom|British]] ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom - A ...role of government from 1996-2001. Their extreme interpretation of Islamic law prompted them to ban music, television, sports, and dancing, and enforce ha
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