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  2. Vietnam War casualties - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese newspaper Nhân Dân reported in 2012 that the U.S. government was providing $41 million to the project, which aimed to reduce the contamination level in 73,000 m 3 of soil by late 2016. [111] Following the end of the war, many refugees fled Vietnam by boat and ship. The number of these "boat people" leaving Vietnam and arriving ...

  3. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    He received a serious injury that severed his right temporal artery, but joined the rest of the surviving medical staff in treating bombing victims. [ 226 ] The atomic bomb explosion generated a windstorm several kilometers wide that carried ash, dust, and debris over the mountain ranges surrounding Nagasaki.

  4. COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    [145] [146] An acute cardiac injury was found in 12% of infected people admitted to the hospital in Wuhan, China, [147] and is more frequent in severe disease. [148] Rates of cardiovascular symptoms are high, owing to the systemic inflammatory response and immune system disorders during disease progression, but acute myocardial injuries may ...

  5. COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    Per Our World in Data, 103,436,829 [5] confirmed cases have been reported in the United States with 1,215,005 [5] deaths, the most of any country, and the nineteenth-highest per capita worldwide. [358] COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [359] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and ...

  6. Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Manhattan is one of the most densely populated locations in the world, with a 2020 census population of 1,694,250 living in a land area of 22.66 square miles (58.69 km 2), [3] [18] or 72,918 residents per square mile (28,154 residents/km 2), and coextensive with New York County, its residential property has the highest sale price per square ...

  7. Ultimate Fighting Championship - Wikipedia

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    The standard octagon has a diameter of 30 ft (9.1 m) with a 6 ft (1.8 m) high fence. [ 347 ] [ 348 ] The cage sits atop a platform, raising it 4 ft (1.2 m) from the ground. It has foam padding around the top of the fence and between each of the eight sections.

  8. Particulates - Wikipedia

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    A study published in 2013 however, states that "the best estimate for the industrial-era (1750 to 2005) direct radiative forcing of atmospheric black carbon is +0.71 W/m 2 with 90% uncertainty bounds of (+0.08, +1.27) W/m 2" with "total direct forcing by all-black carbon sources, without subtracting the preindustrial background, is estimated as ...