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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): The main east-west highway of central Vietnam; the People's Army of Viet Nam taking control of it in 1975 cut South Vietnam in half ^[e]
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: a town in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan. ^[e]
Theta (Greek letter): The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet, written as $\Theta$ (upper-case) and $\theta$ (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: A U.S. military satellite earth station and individual user access facility, carried on a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), originally for interconnecting Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) or providing extended range connection to MSE users, but now interconnecting Joint Network Nodes not in line-of-sight with one another. ^[e]
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: A U.S. organization promoting conservative and libertarian positions on legal issues. ^[e]
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: An obsolescent U.S. military tactical communications architecture of the 1980s, providing analog and digital telephone and low-speed data services ^[e]
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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