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2. MIM-104 Patriot - Wikipedia

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   The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.

3. Operation Market Garden - Wikipedia

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   After Operation Market Garden failed to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine, Allied forces launched offensives on three fronts in the south of the Netherlands. To secure shipping to the vital port of Antwerp they advanced northwards and westwards, the Canadian First Army taking the Scheldt Estuary in the Battle of the Scheldt. [204]

4. Charleston, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Commercial shipping is important to the economy. The city has two shipping terminals, of a total of five terminals owned and operated by the South Carolina Ports Authority in the Charleston metropolitan area, which are part of the fourth-largest container seaport on the East Coast and the seventh-largest container seaport in the United States ...

5. Crete - Wikipedia

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   Crete covers 260 km from west to east but is narrow from north to south, spanning three longitudes but only half a latitude. Crete and a number of islands and islets that surround it constitute the Region of Crete (Greek: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης ), which is the southernmost of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece , and the ...

6. Generation Z - Wikipedia

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   Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012. [4]

7. Spark-gap transmitter - Wikipedia

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   Marconi decided in 1900 to attempt transatlantic communication, which would allow him to dominate Atlantic shipping and compete with submarine telegraph cables. [24]: p.60-61 [17]: p.387-392 This would require a major scale-up in power, a risky gamble for his company. Up to that time his small induction coil transmitters had an input power of ...