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- Robert McNamara: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
- Nasser al-Wahishi: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Frederick Field: (1805-1871?)One of the first detectives of The Metropolitan Police [e]
- Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
- Electron configuration: The arrangement of electrons of an atom, a molecule, or other physical structure, distributed in the orbitals of the given system. [e]
- Herbert Hoover: US President from 1929 to 1933. [e]
- Chlorthalidone: A thiazide-like diuretic medication used to treat hypertension in humans. [e]
- Roger Federer: (1981-) Swiss professional tennis player [e]
- Organic chemistry: The scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements. [e]
- National Highway 25 (Vietnam): Add brief definition or description
- Privateering: A Government authorized form of piracy. [e]
- Black history: A movement that developed out of the same forces that shaped the Civil Rights Movement. [e]
- Towr Kham: Add brief definition or description
- Theta (Greek letter): The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet, written as (upper-case) and (lower-case). [e]
- Treasurer of the United States: Holder of an office in the federal government that was once responsible for collecting and disbursing government money, but which has become less important since 1974 and is now mainly a political patronage job responsible for promoting the President's economic policy. [e]
- Half duplex: A communications transmission medium that can transmit only in one direction at a time. [e]
- Cefaloglycin: A first-generation cephalosporin antibiotic medication no longer commonly used. [e]
- Sighthound: A classification of dog breeds with exceptional visual ability, sensitive to sight and motion and originally more reliant on these senses for hunting than on smell or sound. [e]
- Singapore: Even though of tiny size, one of the world's most prosperous countries, a trading and transportation center of Southeast Asia, made up of islands between Malaysia and Indonesia. [e]
- Ancrod: An enzyme fraction from the venom of the Malayan pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, which affects components of coagulation including fibrinogen; used clinically to produce controlled defibrination in patients requiring anticoagulant therapy. [e]
- TSC-154: Add brief definition or description
- Encephalomyocarditis virus: Picornavirus that causes a febrile illness with central nervous system involvement in humans. [e]
- Phu Yen Province: Add brief definition or description
- Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: Commission appointed by President Ronald Reagan whose mission was to investigate the cause of the Challenger disaster and recommend means to avoid future disasters. [e]
- MARS (cipher): A block cipher that was IBM's submission to the Advanced Encryption Standard process. [e]
- Arthur's Seat: The plug of a long extinct volcano that forms the largest hill in Edinburgh. [e]
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: MIME extends the format of Internet mail to allow non-US-ASCII textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message bodies, and non-US-ASCII information in message headers. [e]
- United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit: Add brief definition or description
- Type A personality: Behaviour pattern characterized by tenseness, impatience, and aggressiveness, often resulting in stress-related symptoms, and possibly increased risk of heart disease. [e]
- Ubuntu (Linux distribution): A Debian-based distribution of the Linux operating system. [e]
- Gulf of Tonkin incident: An incident or incidents between U.S. and North Vietnamese naval forces in August 1964, the details of which remain unclear to both sides; perceived as an attack on U.S. forces and used by Lyndon B. Johnson to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing large-scale combat involvement in the Vietnam War [e]
- In-car navigation system: Satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles, typically a GPS navigation device, to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. [e]
- Metoprolol: An adrenergic beta-antagonist useful in angina pectoris, hypertension, or cardiac arrhythmias. [e]
- Packed bed: A packed bed, used in distillation and absorption processes, is most usually a zone within a vertical pressure vessel that is filled with packing material such as randomly dumped objects or specially designed structured material. [e]
- One & Other: A public art project in the United Kingdom by Antony Gormley, in which 2,400 members of the public occupy the usually vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, for an hour each for 100 days. [e]
- John Maynard Keynes: 20th-century English economist who advocated using government spending and taxation to influence the economy. [e]
- Femur: The human thigh bone, and the largest and strongest bone in the human body. [e]
- Ocean heat content: The amount of heat stored in the oceans which is used by scientists to analyze and project climate change. [e]
- Federalist Society: Add brief definition or description
- Screw (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Canthus (snake): The angle formed by the meeting of the upper and lower eyelids at either side of the eye of snakes. [e]
- TRI-TAC: Add brief definition or description
- Joan of Arc, Trial: Add brief definition or description
- Upstream (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Pacification in South Vietnam: Add brief definition or description
- Aerosol: Add brief definition or description
- Catecholamines: Add brief definition or description
- Container garden: Add brief definition or description
- Phoenix: Add brief definition or description
- Volcanically active worlds: Add brief definition or description
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- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Add brief definition or description
- Neoclassical Schools (1871-today): Add brief definition or description
- Apple (tree): Add brief definition or description
- Mothership (album): Add brief definition or description
- AES competition: Add brief definition or description
- MACV-SOG: Add brief definition or description
- Telescope: Add brief definition or description
- Audrey Landers: Add brief definition or description
- Jacques Goudstikker: Add brief definition or description
- Coulomb's law: Add brief definition or description
- Florida: Add brief definition or description
- USS Algol (AKA-54): Add brief definition or description
- Led Zeppelin III: Add brief definition or description
- Chiang Kai-shek: Add brief definition or description
- Flexner Report: Add brief definition or description
- Cytomegalovirus: Add brief definition or description
- Astronomy: Add brief definition or description
- Atomic orbital: Add brief definition or description
- Claus process: Add brief definition or description
- Circus: Add brief definition or description
- Reagan Doctrine: Add brief definition or description
- Daboia: Add brief definition or description
- Brain concussion: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Scheuer: Add brief definition or description
- Netherlands: Add brief definition or description
- Snake venom: Add brief definition or description
- War of 1812: Add brief definition or description
- Jet engine: Add brief definition or description
- Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal: Add brief definition or description
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: Add brief definition or description
- Choosing a dog: Add brief definition or description
- Indochinese revolution: Add brief definition or description
- Heat of vaporization: Add brief definition or description
- Heat of combustion: Add brief definition or description
- Fossilization (palaeontology): Add brief definition or description
- Economics: Add brief definition or description
- Potato: Add brief definition or description
- Quiverfull: Add brief definition or description
- History of Medicine (United States): Add brief definition or description
- Development of music perception in children: Add brief definition or description
- Dog: Add brief definition or description
- Slavery, U.S.: Add brief definition or description
- Centrifugal fan: Add brief definition or description
- Frank Carlucci: Add brief definition or description
- Chikungunya Virus: Add brief definition or description
- Florida, history: Add brief definition or description
- Wikipedia: Add brief definition or description
- Microsporum canis: Add brief definition or description
- Afghan and Pakistani local forces: Add brief definition or description
- Shang Dynasty: Add brief definition or description
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- James Madison: Add brief definition or description
- Alternative medicine (theories): Add brief definition or description
- MPEG-1: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. government training of foreign police: Add brief definition or description
- Greek alphabet: Add brief definition or description
- Medical error: Add brief definition or description
- Child sexual abuse: Add brief definition or description
- Randomized controlled trial: Add brief definition or description
- Signals intelligence at the start of the Cold War: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Einstein: Add brief definition or description
- Autism: Add brief definition or description
- Bacteriophage: Add brief definition or description
- Presence: Add brief definition or description
- International Space Station: Add brief definition or description
- Pantheism: Add brief definition or description
- Manga: Add brief definition or description
- Deism: Add brief definition or description
- Brain morphometry: Add brief definition or description
- Continuous distillation: Add brief definition or description
- Variations in first-class cricket statistics: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Nixon: Add brief definition or description
- Cryptography: Add brief definition or description
- Judaism: Add brief definition or description
- John W. Campbell, Jr.: Add brief definition or description
- Angular momentum coupling: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. policy towards Afghanistan: Add brief definition or description
- Gamma function: Add brief definition or description
- Angular momentum (classical): Add brief definition or description
- Computer architecture: Add brief definition or description
- Set theory: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of religion: Add brief definition or description
- 40th United States Congress: Add brief definition or description
- Heart sound: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. commercial aviation history to 1966: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration: Add brief definition or description
- USS Yancey (AKA-93): Add brief definition or description
- Massachusetts, history: Add brief definition or description
- Eckart conditions: Add brief definition or description
- Welding: Add brief definition or description
- Cholera: Add brief definition or description
- Second Seminole War: Add brief definition or description
- Grover Cleveland: Add brief definition or description
- Abscess: Add brief definition or description
- Fluid catalytic cracking: Add brief definition or description
- Hindenburg (LZ-129): Add brief definition or description
- Tetration: Add brief definition or description
- History of the U.S. Navy: Add brief definition or description
- Edinburgh: Add brief definition or description
- Eleanor Roosevelt: Add brief definition or description
- BMW motorcycles: Add brief definition or description