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61Patolli — (the Nahuatl name) or patole (the Spanish form) is one of the oldest games in America. Patolli (or variants of it) was played by a wide range of pre Columbian Mesoamerican cultures and known all over Mesoamerica. Patolli was very much a game of… …
62Fencing practice and techniques — of modern competitive fencing are governed by the FIE, though they developed from conventions developed in 18th and 19th century Europe to govern fencing as a martial art and a gentlemanly pursuit. The modern weapons for sport fencing are the… …
63USS Ammen (DD-527) — USS Ammen (DD 527), a sclass|Fletcher|destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen (1820 ndash;1898). Ammen was laid down on 29 November 1941 at San Francisco, California, by the Bethlehem… …
64Composite (New York City Subway car) — Composite 1904 Rendering of an IRT Composite Manufacturer Jewett Car Company St. Louis Car Company Wason Manufacturing Company John Stephenson Company …
65exceed — v 1. transcend, surmount, surpass, go beyond, outdo, cap, top, go over the top; overshadow, minimize, reduce, eclipse, tower above, dominate; outrank, come first; run over, overflow, slop over; overshoot, go by the mark, overstep, overplay,… …
66Ecological footprint — The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth s ecosystems. It is a standardized measure of demand for natural capital that may be contrasted with the planet s ecological capacity to regenerate.[1] It represents the amount of …
671948 KLM Constellation air disaster — The KLM Lockheed Constellation airplane Nijmegen (identification PH TEN) crashed near Prestwick, Scotland, on 20 October 1948, killing all 40 aboard. Background The aircraft was piloted by K.D. Parmentier, widely regarded as one of the great… …
68Comparison of layout engines (Web Typography) — The following tables compare support for different font formats and support for CSS3 font resources for a number of layout engines. Web fonts were initially defined (but later dropped) from CSS2, then added into CSS3. The specification is… …
69Voltage clamp — The voltage clamp is used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents across a neuronal membrane while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. Neuronal membranes contain many different kinds of ion channels, some of which are voltage …
70Lightweight Fighter — The Lightweight Fighter (LWF) program was a U.S. Air Force technology evaluation program initiated in the 1960s by a cabal of officers and defense analysts known as the fighter mafia . It was spurred by then Maj. John Boyd s Energy… …
