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  • 61USS Stickell (DD-888) — was a Gearing class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant John H. Stickell USNR (1914 ndash;1943), who was killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy… …

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  • 62Rende — Infobox CityIT img coa = Tretorri Rende.jpg official name = Comune di Rende region = Calabria province = Cosenza (CS) elevation m = 480 area total km2 = 54 population as of = 2004 population total = 35221 name=Rende mapx=39.25 mapy=16.3… …

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  • 63Edmond-Charles Genêt — Edmond Charles Genêt. Edmond Charles Genêt (January 8, 1763 – July 14, 1834), also known as Citizen Genêt, was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. Contents …

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  • 64Perry Collins — full name was Perry McDonough Collins. He was the visionary behind the Russian American Telegraph of 1865 1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. The early yearsBorn in Hyde Park, New York,… …

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  • 65Timeline of the Turkish War of Independence — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. A graphical timeline is available at Turkish War of Independence …

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  • 66siren — si|ren [ saırən ] noun count * 1. ) a piece of equipment that makes a loud sound, used for warning people: police sirens 2. ) a woman in ancient Greek stories who sang to sailors in order to make them sail toward rocks and crash a ) MAINLY… …

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  • 67bear down upon — 1. Attack, assail, assault, charge, advance upon, move upon, march upon, march against, set upon, rush upon. 2. (Naut.) Sail toward, approach, move to close quarters with …

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  • 68technology, history of — Introduction       the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …

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  • 69naval ship — Introduction       the chief instrument by which a nation extends its military power onto the seas. Warships protect the movement over water of military forces to coastal areas where they may be landed and used against enemy forces; warships… …

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  • 70ship — shipless, adj. shiplessly, adv. /ship/, n., v., shipped, shipping. n. 1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines. 2. Naut. a. a sailing vessel square rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a… …

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