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  2. Nineveh Plain Protection Units - Wikipedia

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    The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (Classical Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬ ܣܬܪܐ ܕܫܛܚܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ Ḥḏāywāṯ Settārā da-Šṭāḥā d-Nīnwē; Arabic: وحدات حماية سهل نينوى) or NPU is an Assyrian paramilitary organization that was formed in late 2014, largely but not exclusively by Assyrians in Iraq to defend themselves against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ...

  3. Map Room (White House) - Wikipedia

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    The Map Room is a room on the ground floor of the White House, the official home of the president of the United States. The Map Room takes its name from its use during World War II, when Franklin Roosevelt used it as a situation room where maps were consulted to track the war's progress (for such purposes, it was later replaced by the West Wing ...

  4. Situation Room - Wikipedia

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    The Situation Room is an intelligence management complex on the ground floor of the West Wing of the White House.While the name suggests it is a single room, it is in fact a 5,000 square feet (460 m 2) operations suite consisting of a duty watch station and three secure conference rooms.

  5. 40th ward, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    map of the Ward's 2015 boundaries. The 40th Ward is one of 50 wards that make up the Chicago City Council. The ward includes several diverse neighborhoods surrounding Rosehill Cemetery, including Lincoln Square, Budlong Woods, Bowmanville, West Ridge, Edgewater and West Andersonville. The area is bordered approximately by the Chicago River to ...

  6. NPU - Wikipedia

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    Neighborhood planning unit, in Atlanta, Georgia, US; Nineveh Plain Protection Units, an Assyrian regional militia in Iraq; National Police of Ukraine, a government agency; National Power Unity, a Latvian political party

  7. Elks National Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Elks rededicated the memorial in 1946, 1976, and 1994 to honor veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and all subsequent conflicts. [4] On October 1, 2003, the City of Chicago granted the memorial landmark status. [5] Besides its status as a memorial, the building serves as the national headquarters of the Elks. [4]

  8. Map Room - Wikipedia

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    Map Room may refer to: A room for storing a large map collection; Map Room (White House), a ground floor sitting room that once served as a situation room during World War II; One of the rooms of the Churchill War Rooms, a hub of the war effort in World War II; The Map Room of The British Museum, which later became the Map Library

  9. Presidential Emergency Operations Center - Wikipedia

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    The first White House bunker was built during World War II to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the event of an aerial attack on the national capital of Washington, D.C. The present-day PEOC space has modern communications equipment including televisions and phones to coordinate with outside government entities.