| Almond The Almond (Prunus dulcis, syn. Prunus amygdalus Batsch. Almond
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| Al-Qaeda |logo = Flag of al-Qaeda.svg Al-Qaeda
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| American Civil Liberties Union |headquarters = New York, NY American_Civil_Liberties_Union
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| Area 51 | website = Area_51
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| Bassas da India Bassas da India (also called Basse de Judie) is an uninhabited, roughly circular atoll about 10 km in diameter, which corresponds to a total size (including lagoon) of 80 km². It is located in the southern Mozambique Channel, about half-way between Madagascar (which is 385 km to the east) and Mozambique, and 110 km northwest of Europa Island. Bassas_da_India
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| The World Factbook | pub_date = see frequency of updates and availability The_World_Factbook
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| Cathode ray tube The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen, with internal or external means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam, used to form images in the form of light emitted from the fluorescent screen. The image may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictures (television, computer monitor), radar targets and others. Cathode_ray_tube
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| Cream Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. Cream
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| COINTELPRO COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however the formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. COINTELPRO
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| Caffeine | Section2 = Caffeine
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| Class action In law, a class action or a representative action is a form of lawsuit where a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court. This form of collective lawsuit originated in the United States and is still predominately a US phenomenon, at least the US variant of it. Class_action
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| Controlled Substances Act The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970., codified at et. Controlled_Substances_Act
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| Delaware Delaware
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| Data Encryption Standard The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a cipher (a method for encrypting information) selected by NBS as an official Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the United States in 1976 and which has subsequently enjoyed widespread use internationally. The algorithm was initially controversial with classified design elements, a relatively short key length, and suspicions about a National Security Agency (NSA) backdoor. Data_Encryption_Standard
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| DDT | Section2 = DDT
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| Flavor Flavor or flavour is the sensory impression of a food or other substance, and is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and smell. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat, may also occasionally determine flavor. Flavor
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| Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at , with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The regulations cover violations such as parent volunteers grading another child's work, school employees divulging information to someone other than the child's parents about a child's homelife, grades or behaviors, and school work posted on a bulletin board with a grade. Family_Educational_Rights_and_Privacy_Act
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes, making the FBI the de-facto lead law enforcement agency of the United States government. Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation
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| Flag of the United States The flag of the United States of America consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 U. Flag_of_the_United_States
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| Great Lakes The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth. Great_Lakes
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| Helium Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions. Helium
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| Ice Ice is a solid phase, usually crystalline, of a non-metalic substance that is liquid or gas at room temperature, such as ammonia ice or methane ice. However, the word "ice" normally means water ice, technically restricted to one of the 15 known crystalline phases of water. Ice
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| ISM band The industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands were originally reserved internationally for the use of RF electromagnetic fields for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than communications. In general, communications equipment must accept any interference generated by ISM equipment ISM_band
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| James Madison |birth_place=Port Conway, Virginia James_Madison
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| Jerusalem (Al-Quds); officially in Israel (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Jerusalem
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| J. Edgar Hoover |birth_place =Washington, D.C. J._Edgar_Hoover
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| Joseph McCarthy |place of birth= Grand Chute, Wisconsin Joseph_McCarthy
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| John Ashcroft | birth_place=Chicago, Illinois John_Ashcroft
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| Khuriya Muriya Islands The Khuriya Muriya Islands or Kuria Muria Islands (; transliterated: or – in antiquity the islands were called the Zenobii Islands or Zenobiou Islands (; ) or Doliche (Greek: Δολίχη); Location: are an external territory in the Khuriya Muriya Bay (the classical Latin: Sinus Sachalites, Greek: Σαχαλίτης κόλπος) of the Arabian Sea 40 km off the southeastern coast of the sultanate of Oman, consisting of five islands, forming part of the Shalim and the Hallaniyat Islands Province of the Governorate of Dhofar, with a total area of 73 km², notably (from west to east): Khuriya_Muriya_Islands
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| Monica Lewinsky | birth_place =San Francisco, California Monica_Lewinsky
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| Northern Mariana Islands (Chamorro)Satil Matawal Pacifiko(Carolinian) Northern_Mariana_Islands
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| Air Force Space Surveillance System The Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, is a multistatic radar system that detects orbital objects passing over America. It is a component of the US space surveillance network, and is claimed to be able to detect objects as small as 10cm (four inches) at heights up to 30,000 km (15,000 nautical miles. Air_Force_Space_Surveillance_System
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| Nuremberg Code The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials at the end of the Second World War. Specifically, they were in response to the inhumane Nazi human experimentation carried out during the war by individuals such as Dr. Nuremberg_Code
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| Nuclear proliferation Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "nuclear weapon States" by the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or NPT. Proliferation has been opposed by many nations with and without nuclear weapons, the governments of which fear that more countries with nuclear weapons may increase the possibility of nuclear warfare (up to and including the so-called "countervalue" targeting of civilians with nuclear weapons), de-stabilize international or regional relations, or infringe upon the national sovereignty of states. Nuclear_proliferation
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| Organized crime Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. The Organized Crime Control Act (U. Organized_crime
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| Pound (mass) The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation: lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States: #) is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. A number of different definitions have been used, the most common today being the international avoirdupois pound of exactly Pound_(mass)
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| Phosphorus Phosphorus, (), is the chemical element that has the symbol P and atomic number 15. The name comes from the (meaning "light") and φόρος (meaning "bearer"). Phosphorus
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| Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
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| Prairie dog The prairie dogs (Cynomys) are small, burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America. There are five different species of prairie dogs: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. Prairie_dog
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| Quality management system Quality Management System (QMS) can be defined as a set of policies, processes and procedures required for planning and execution (production / development / service) in the core business area of an organization. QMS integrates the various internal processes within the organization and intends to provide a process approach for project execution. Quality_management_system
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| Ronald Reagan |birth_place=Tampico, Illinois Ronald_Reagan
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| Romania |national_anthem = Deşteaptă-te, române!Awaken, Romanian! Romania
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| Rose A rose is a perennial flowering shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. Rose
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| SHA hash functions The SHA hash functions are a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published by the NIST as a U.S. SHA_hash_functions
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| International System of Units The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten. It is the world's most widely used system of measurement, both in everyday commerce and in science. International_System_of_Units
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| Economy of Somalia Somalia has a free market economy. Somalia has meager natural resources (or untapped resources such as Oil) and recent economic reverses has left its people increasingly dependent on remittances from abroad. Economy_of_Somalia
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| Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Inaccessible technology interferes with an individual's ability to obtain and use information quickly and easily. Section_508_Amendment_to_the_Rehabilitation_Act_of_1973
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| Sulfuric acid | Section2 = Sulfuric_acid
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| Scientific misconduct Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries provides the following sample definitions: Scientific_misconduct
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| Trinitrotoluene | Section2 = Trinitrotoluene
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