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71Material input per service unit — The concept of material input per unit of service (MIPS) originally developed at the Wuppertal Institute, Germany in the 1990s. The MIPS concept can be used to measure eco efficiency of a product or service and applied in all scales from a single …
72The arts — This article is about Arts as a group of disciplines. For the philosophical concept of art, see Art. For other uses, see Art (disambiguation). Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many… …
73Piracy in the Caribbean — The great era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1560s and died out in the 1720s as the nation states of Western Europe with colonies in the Americas began to exert more state control over the waterways of the New World. The period during… …
74Naval weaponry of the People's Liberation Army Navy — The People s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the naval branch of the People s Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People s Republic of China. The PLAN force consists of approx. 250,000 men and over a hundred major combat vessels,… …
75Tibet during the Ming Dynasty — The exact nature of Sino Tibetan relations during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) of China is unclear. Some modern scholars living and working in the People s Republic of China assert that the Ming Dynasty had unquestioned sovereignty over Tibet,… …
76Criticisms of The Da Vinci Code — The Da Vinci Code , a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated a great deal of criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of the complaints centered on the book s speculations and alleged misrepresentations of core… …
77Ship types of the Culture — The fictional universe of The Culture, created by Iain M Banks, contains a wide range of space vessels types, most of which contain sentient Minds and which play a key role in the society of the Culture and in the plots of the novels set within… …
78History of the United States (1980–1991) — The history of the United States (1980 1991) includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first two years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet… …
79The Association of Former Students — Infobox Organization name = The Association of Former Students image border = size = caption = motto = formation = 1879 type = Alumni association headquarters = College Station, Texas, USA location = membership = 280,000 leader title = Executive… …
80List of The Big O characters — The fictional characters of The Big O anime series were designed by series creator Keiichi Sato, who also designed characters for the City Hunter series. Because of union rules,[1] most of the English voice cast for the first season were credited …
