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  2. Accidents and incidents involving the V-22 Osprey - Wikipedia

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    On 20 July 1992, pre-production V-22 #4's right engine failed and caused the aircraft to drop into the Potomac River by Marine Corps Base Quantico with an audience of Department of Defense and industry officials. [8] [9] [10] Flammable liquids collected in the right nacelle and led to an engine fire and subsequent failure. All seven on board ...

  3. HAZMAT Class 4 Flammable solids - Wikipedia

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    Division 4.1: Flammable Solid . Flammable solids are any of the following four types of materials: Desensitized Explosives: explosives that, when dry, are Explosives of Class 1 other than those of compatibility group A, which are wetted with sufficient water, alcohol, or plasticizer to suppress explosive properties; and are specifically authorized by name either in the 49CFR 172.101 Table or ...

  4. Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Flowchart of using successive subtractions to find the greatest common divisor of number r and s. In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ ˈ æ l ɡ ə r ɪ ð əm / ⓘ) is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. [1]

  5. Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    It is a declared nuclear-weapons state, and is ranked amongst the emerging and growth-leading economies, [18] with a large and rapidly growing middle class. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Pakistan's political history since independence has been characterized by periods of significant economic and military growth as well as those of political and economic ...

  6. Ticonderoga-class cruiser - Wikipedia

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    The Ticonderoga class was originally ordered as guided-missile destroyers, with the designation DDG-47. Under Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's "high-low mix", the Ticonderogas were intended to be lower-cost platforms for the new Aegis Combat System by mounting the system on a hull based on that of the Spruance-class destroyer.

  7. Linux - Wikipedia

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    Linux is the leading operating system on servers (over 96.4% of the top one million web servers' operating systems are Linux), [48] leads other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, [clarification needed] [49] and is used on all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers [h] (as of November 2017, having gradually displaced all competitors).

  8. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    Because cancer is a class of diseases, [7] [253] it is unlikely that there will ever be a single "cure for cancer" any more than there will be a single treatment for all infectious diseases. [254] Angiogenesis inhibitors were once incorrectly thought to have potential as a " silver bullet " treatment applicable to many types of cancer. [ 255 ]

  9. Rita Desjardin - Wikipedia

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    Miss Rita L. Desjardin is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King in his first published 1974 horror novel Carrie.In the 1976 film adaptation, the character was renamed Miss Collins and portrayed by Betty Buckley.