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  2. Operation Starvation - Wikipedia

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    Operation Starvation sank more ship tonnage in the last six months of the war than the efforts of all other sources combined. The Twentieth Air Force flew 1,529 sorties and laid 12,135 mines in 26 fields on 46 separate missions. Mining demanded only 5.7% of the XXI Bomber Command's total sorties, and only 15 B-29s were lost in the effort. In ...

  3. Neil George Safety System - Wikipedia

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    The Neil George Safety System (or 5-Point Safety System) is an occupational health and safety program developed for and used in underground mining. The system was developed in 1942 by Canadian engineer Neil George, who at the time was an employee of Inco Limited in Sudbury, Ontario. The program is used throughout Canada and internationally. [1] [2]

  4. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Magazine: a protected place within a fort, where ammunition is stored and prepared for use. Mining: a siege method used since antiquity against a walled city, fortress or castle, where tunnels are dug to undermine the foundations of the walls; also see counter-mine.

  5. Free Bitcoin Mining Games: Learn and Earn - AOL

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    It’s a Bitcoin mining simulator game that allows users to earn Bitcoin at no initial cost — new users can earn free Satoshi straight away. A Satoshi is a term given to a fraction of a Bitcoin.

  6. Submarine mines in United States harbor defense - Wikipedia

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    In 1866, the United States Army Corps of Engineers established the Engineer School of Application at Willets Point, New York.The first commander of this school, Major Henry Larcom Abbot, was almost single-handedly responsible for designing and supervising the program of research and development that defined the strategy and tactics for the mine defense of American harbors.

  7. Five-second rule - Wikipedia

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    Strawberries dropped on the ground. The five-second rule suggests that if they are picked up within five seconds, it is safe to eat them without rewashing.. The five-second rule, or sometimes the three-second rule, is a food hygiene urban legend that states a defined time window after which it is not safe to eat food (or sometimes to use cutlery) after it has been dropped on the floor or on ...

  8. Don’t brush right after you eat. Dentists say there’s one ...

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    “Every time you eat, your saliva breaks food down for digestion, which will create an acid by-product,” explains Lilya Horowitz, DDS, of Domino Dental in Brooklyn, N.Y. “This leads to more ...

  9. Gravel mine - Wikipedia

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    The mines were also used by the U.S. during the Battle of Khe Sanh; however, a U.S. Air Force history described them as being "little more than a nuisance," due to the Viet Cong clearing the gravel mine fields by using teams of oxen that dragged logs over them and to the mines themselves becoming inert after a short time.