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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 (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: 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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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
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- Swarming (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sathya Sai Baba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- First Crusade [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 21st United States Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- W. S. Gilbert [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nintendo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Crusades [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. House Armed Services Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- German Resistance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Britain, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theodore Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hippocrates [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chiropractic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Solar system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Homeopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information Management [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Lord of the Rings [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Randomized controlled trial [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MPEG-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Korean War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ken Rosewall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judaism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air warfare planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
- England [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence activities in the Near East [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Second Seminole War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intermolecular forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atmospheric reentry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence activities in Russia and Eurasia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Systems biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Civil War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Khe Sanh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information Management [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Solar system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ho Chi Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mission San Juan Capistrano [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global warming [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 41st United States Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judaism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Khe Sanh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human-source intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, air war [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scotland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- History of astronomy [r]: Add brief definition or description