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  • 21Bomber — For other uses, see Bomber (disambiguation). The B 17 Flying Fortress is a heavy bomber from World War II. A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets, by dropping bombs on them, or – in recent years – by… …

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  • 22Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall …

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  • 23Europe, 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.… …

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  • 24military aircraft — Introduction       any type of aircraft that has been adapted for military use.       Aircraft have been a fundamental part of military power since the mid 20th century. Generally speaking, all military aircraft fall into one of the following… …

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  • 25international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 26Audie Murphy — Infobox Military Person name= Audie L. Murphy born= birth date|1926|06|20 died= death date and age|1971|05|28|1926|06|20 placeofbirth= Kingston, Texas placeofdeath= Brush Mountain near Catawba or Roanoke, Virginia placeofburial= Arlington… …

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  • 27Principles of War — The Principles of War were tenets originally proposed by Carl von Clausewitz in his essay Principles or War [ [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/PrincWar/Princwr1.htm#I] , Gatzke] , and later enlarged in his book, On War . Since the mid 19th… …

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  • 28Cheikh Anta Diop — Pan African topics General Pan Africanism Afro Asian Afro Latino Colonialism …

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  • 29Temporal parts — are used in contemporary metaphysics in the debate over persistence of material objects. Some metaphysicists believe objects have temporal parts as objects usually have spatial parts (such as hands, feet, legs etc.). A temporal part would thus be …

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  • 30Haywood S. Hansell — Infobox Military Person name= Haywood Shepherd Hansell, Jr. born= birth date|1903|9|28 died= death date and age|1988|11|14|1903|9|28 placeofbirth= Fort Monroe, Virginia placeofdeath= Hilton Head, South Carolina placeofburial= United States Air… …

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