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71Stephen Downing case — The Stephen Downing case involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17 year old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the village of Bakewell in the Peak District. Following… …
72Ram pressure — In physics, ram pressure is a pressure exerted on a body which is moving through a fluid medium. It causes a strong drag force to be exerted on the body. For example, a meteor traveling through the Earth s atmosphere produces a shock wave… …
73Jeanine Nicarico murder case — The Jeanine Nicarico murder case was a complex and influential homicide investigation and prosecution in DuPage County, Illinois that sent two men to prison who were later exonerated and released, and contributed to the death penalty moratorium… …
74Late-inning pressure situations (LIPS) — A late inning pressure situation is a baseball statistic developed by the Elias Sports Bureau in their annual book The 1985 Elias Baseball Analyst to determine if clutch hitters exist. This question was first posed by Richard D. Cramer in his… …
75Rolando Cruz case — See also: Jeanine Nicarico murder case In February 1985, a Hispanic man from Aurora, Illinois named Rolando Cruz and a co defendant were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the 1983 kidnapping, rape, deviant sexual assault and murder of… …
76Eliza Armstrong case — The Eliza Armstrong case was a major scandal in the United Kingdom involving a child supposedly bought for prostitution for the purpose of exposing the evils of white slavery. While it achieved its purpose of helping to enable the passage of the… …
77Scottsboro case — U.S. civil rights controversy. In April 1931, in Scottsboro, Ala., nine African American youths were charged with the rape of two white women. Despite testimony by doctors that no rape had occurred, the all white jury convicted them and sentenced …
78zero-delivery pressure — The pressure delivered by a variable displacement pump when no services are being operated. It is the normal operating mode, with a zero stroke, when no system is being operated. The swash plate in this case has a positive angle of inclination… …
79Virtual Case File — (or VCF) was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2000 and 2005. The project was not close to completion when it was officially abandoned in January 2005, having turned into a complete… …
80Purulia arms drop case — The Purulia arms drop case was an infamous incident in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An 26 aircraft in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal in India on December 17, 1995. A Latvian aircraft dropped a large… …
