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  2. Every state's nickname and where it comes from - AOL

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    The North Dakota Motor Vehicle Department added the phrase to license plates in 1956; it took off, and Peace Garden State was formally adopted by the state legislature the following year.

  3. Guidance system - Wikipedia

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    The output of the navigation system, the navigation solution, is an input for the guidance system, among others like the environmental conditions (wind, water, temperature, etc.) and the vehicle's characteristics (i.e. mass, control system availability, control systems correlation to vector change, etc.).

  4. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    A form of a film that consists of images consisting of predominantly actual actors and objects that exist in the actual world, as opposed to an animated film, which predominantly consists of artificial static images or objects that take advantage of the persistence of vision principle of film to give an illusion of life.

  5. 1972 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.

  6. Self-driving car - Wikipedia

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    A self-driving car, also known as a autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, [1] [2] [3] is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input.

  7. Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The view that the Article V amendment process is the only legitimate vehicle for bringing about constitutional change is, as pointed out by constitutional law scholar Joel K. Goldstein, "challenged by numerous widely-accepted judicial decisions that have introduced new meaning into constitutional language by departing from original intentions ...

  8. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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    Soon after the meeting Freeman, Heather Booth, and Naomi Weisstein founded the Women's Radical Action Project (WRAP), as a vehicle for consciousness-raising. [46] At these meetings, women met regularly to discuss personal dilemmas and to analyze how politics shaped and impacted women's lives.

  9. Operation Sandblast - Wikipedia

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    Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world, executed by the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) in 1960 under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.