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  2. MIL-STD-130 - Wikipedia

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    When clauses DFARS 252.211-7003 (new purchases) or DFARS 252.211-7007 (government owned equipment) are in the contract, assets and personal property priced at over $5,000 each on the contract or assets in the possession of the contractors costing over $5,000 must be marked with a unique serialized identification number in compliance with MIL ...

  3. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    There are various kinds of executive actions that United States presidents may take.. Executive orders are issued to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. [1]

  4. Eastern Bloc - Wikipedia

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    In addition, media in the Eastern Bloc were organs of the state, completely reliant on and subservient to the government of the USSR with radio and television organisations being state-owned, while print media was usually owned by political organisations, mostly by the local party. [104]

  5. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    While the National Academy of Sciences raised the possibility that Neel's procedure did not filter the Kure population for possible radiation exposure which could bias the results, [284] overall, a statistically insignificant increase in birth defects occurred directly after the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima when the cities were taken as ...

  6. Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, a committee of historians and economists published a report, "Latvian Industry Before and After Restoration of Independence," estimating the overall cost of Soviet occupation in the years 1940–1990 at €185 billion, not counting the intangible costs of "deportations and imprisonment policy" of the Soviet authorities.

  7. Mumbai - Wikipedia

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    The name Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई) originated from Mumbā or Mahā-Ambā—the name of the patron Hindu goddess (Kula Devata) Mumbadevi of the native Koli community [40] —and from ā'ī, meaning "mother" in the Marathi language, which is the mother tongue of the Koli people and the official language of Maharashtra.

  8. Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic - Wikipedia

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    The last session of the government of the Republic of Lithuania was called to discuss the ultimatum, [9] with most members in favour of accepting it. On 15 June, President Antanas Smetona left for the West, expecting to return when the geopolitical situation changed, [ 10 ] leaving Prime Minister Antanas Merkys in Lithuania.

  9. Government of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.