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  2. Fox (code word) - Wikipedia

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    Fox is a brevity code used by NATO pilots to signal the simulated or actual release of an air-to-air munition or other combat function. Army aviation elements may use a different nomenclature, as the nature of helicopter-fired weapons is almost always air-to-surface.

  3. Sadler report - Wikipedia

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    The Sadler Report, also known as the Report of the Select Committee on Factory Children's Labour (Parliamentary Papers 1831–32, volume XV) or "the report of Mr Sadler's Committee," [a] was a report written in 1832 by Michael Sadler, the chairman of a UK parliamentary committee considering a bill that limited the hours of work of children in ...

  4. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

  5. Multiservice tactical brevity code - Wikipedia

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    March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words.

  6. William Rathbone Greg - Wikipedia

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    [2] For a time, he managed a mill of his father's at Bury , and in 1832 began business on his own account. He entered the struggle for free trade , and obtained in 1842 the prize offered by the Anti-Corn Law League for the best essay on Agriculture and the Corn Laws.

  7. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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    Historians have noted Irving's "active imagination" [3] and called some aspects of his work "fanciful and sentimental". [1] Literary critics have noted that Irving "saw American history as a useful means of establishing patriotism in his readers, and while his language tended to be more general, his avowed intention toward Columbus was thoroughly nationalist". [4]

  8. American System (economic plan) - Wikipedia

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    The cages are labeled: "Home, Consumption, Internal, Improv". This 1831 cartoon ridiculing Clay's American System depicts monkeys, labeled as being different parts of a nation's economy, stealing each other's resources (food) with commentators describing it as either great or a humbug.

  9. Democracy in America - Wikipedia

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    1831 Notes of Alexis de Tocqueville in Lower Canada; Democracy in America, the full book text (Note: this is public domain) Democracy in America, Volume 1 at Project Gutenberg; Democracy in America, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg; Democracy in America public domain audiobook at LibriVox