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111Nahal Zin fuel leak — The Nahal Zin fuel leak (Hebrew: אסון נחל צין) was a severe ecological disaster caused in June 2011 when a backhoe loader struck and ruptured an underground fuel pipeline in southern Israel. 1.5 million liters of jet fuel leaked into the… …
112Our Lady of the Angels School fire — Monument at Queen of Heaven Cemetery The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire broke out shortly before classes were to be dismissed on December 1, 1958, at the foot of a stairway in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois. The… …
113Dow Chemical Company — The Dow Chemical Co. Type Public Traded as NYSE: DOW TYO …
114Criticism of the Space Shuttle program — stems from claims that NASA s Shuttle program has failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as well as design, cost, management, and safety issues.[1] More specifically, it has failed in the goal of reducing the cost of space access …
115Dates of 2008 — ▪ 2009 January As we meet tonight, our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty.… At kitchen tables across our country, there is a concern about our economic future. U.S. Pres. George W. Bush, in his final state of the union address, January …
116Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
117Computer security — This article is about computer security through design and engineering. For computer security exploits and defenses, see computer insecurity. Computer security Secure operating systems Security architecture Security by design Secure coding …
118Backup — For other uses of Backup , see Backup (disambiguation). In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two… …
119Nuclear power plant — This article is about electricity generation from nuclear power. For the general topic of nuclear power, see Nuclear power. A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactor is contained inside the cylindrical containment buildings to the right left… …
120RAID — This article is about the data storage technology. For other uses, see Raid (disambiguation). RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),[1] is a storage… …
