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  2. Quality Samples Program - Wikipedia

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    The Quality Samples Program (QSP) is a pilot program, started in 2000 and administered by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), that utilizes Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to reimburse U.S. agricultural trade organizations for the cost of providing small samples of U.S. products to potential importers located in overseas emerging markets.

  3. Aquagenic urticaria - Wikipedia

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    Aquagenic urticaria, also known as water allergy and water urticaria, is a form of physical urticaria in which hives develop on the skin after contact with water, regardless of its temperature. [1] The condition typically results from contact with water of any type, temperature or additive.

  4. Weapon of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    Because of its prolific use and (worldwide) public profile during this period, the American Dialect Society voted "weapons of mass destruction" (and its abbreviation, "WMD") the word of the year in 2002, [24] and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for "Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness" (and ...

  5. Human eye - Wikipedia

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    These specialists, or eye care professionals, serve different functions in different countries. Eye care professionals can have overlap in their patient care privileges. For example, both an ophthalmologist (M.D.) and optometrist (O.D.) are professionals who diagnose eye disease and can prescribe lenses to correct vision. Typically, only ...

  6. Linux - Wikipedia

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    It starts processes such as system services and login prompts (whether graphical or in terminal mode). Software libraries , which contain code that can be used by running processes. On Linux systems using ELF -format executable files, the dynamic linker that manages the use of dynamic libraries is known as ld-linux.so .

  7. Cadmium - Wikipedia

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    Cadmium burns in air to form brown amorphous cadmium oxide (CdO); the crystalline form of this compound is a dark red which changes color when heated, similar to zinc oxide. Hydrochloric acid , sulfuric acid , and nitric acid dissolve cadmium by forming cadmium chloride (CdCl 2 ), cadmium sulfate (CdSO 4 ), or cadmium nitrate (Cd(NO 3 ) 2 ).

  8. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Illinois (/ ˌ ɪ l ɪ ˈ n ɔɪ / ⓘ IL-in-OY) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south.

  9. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Various forms of one-to-one electronic messaging were used in the 1960s. Users communicated using systems developed for specific mainframe computers . As more computers were interconnected, especially in the U.S. Government's ARPANET , standards were developed to permit exchange of messages between different operating systems.