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  • *Coulomb blockade thermometer *Oral thermometer Some of the various types of thermometers are described below. == Mercury-in-glass thermometer == ...
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  • secret treaties and the idea of a naval blockade. Despite their own national interests that were in opposition to the fourteen points, both France ...
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  • ===Berlin blockade=== the Soviet Union to introduce the Berlin Blockade in an attempt to gain control ...
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  • from the Vistula, and launched a blockade of Elbing and Balga. While the castle withstood Teutonic attacks, the blockade was smashed by cogs. ...
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  • on for the same purpose were cut off due to the blockade of German shipping by the Allied forces. Haber at this time became engaged in the production ...
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  • SSR instigated a partial railway and air blockade against Armenia, as a response ... result from Armenia's continued blockade of the region in response ...
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  • At the outset of the war, the French government ordered a blockade ... remaining patrolling French ships, the blockade became less and less effective ...
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  • aboard Huáscar, Peru staged a series of blockade runs and harassment raids ... Huáscar and Independencia lifted the blockade of Iquique by Esmeralda ...
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  • could do little on land at Crete, and the blockade established by the Italian ... and feeding their populations under blockade. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • and gain his support for the United States blockade, a role which he took seriously. Beisner, Dean Acheson, 631. During the 1960s, he was a leading ...
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  • A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... of steamships availed greater speed to blockade runners, ships with the ...
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  • of Tiran strategic importance. Egypt's blockade of the Straits to Israeli ships and ships bound for Israel in 1956 and again in 1967 was a ...
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  • loyalist's navy, and the resulting blockade of Montevideo, made the ... cohesion in Argentina, a Spanish blockade in Valparaíso, and the ...
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  • Greece. The Admiral in charge of the blockade was Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ... Whilst the Great Powers announced a blockade, Greek troops crossed the ...
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  • #039;s end. With ports to the east under blockade or capture, Texas in particular ... naval ships, which led to its successful blockade of Confederate ports. (The ...
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  • from 1838 to 1840, and a joint Anglo-French blockade from 1845 to 1848. Both blockades failed to gain surrender of the city, and the foreign powers ...
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  • His ship was trapped by the British blockade at New London, Connecticut ... Somers off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa and was involved ...
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  • Members of the Algonquin tribe began a peaceful blockade of a uranium mining operation on their sacred lands north of Kingston, Ontario on June ...
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  • the entrance to the Han River. He hoped to blockade the waterway to the capital during the harvest season, thereby giving him leverage to force demands ...
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  • movement Abahlali baseMjondolo grew out of a road blockade in response to the sudden selling off of a small piece of land promised for housing to a developer ...
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