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  2. 1989 New Year Honours - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant Colonel Norman Jan Piet Walker, TD, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn John Webb-Carter, Grenadier Guards. Lieutenant Colonel Alasdair Allan Wilson, Corps of Royal Engineers. Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Eric Banks, MBE. Wing Commander Keith Bichard. Wing Commander William Michael Nigel Cross.

  3. Science and technology in China - Wikipedia

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    It directs many research institutes, research programs, graduate training programs, and gives influential advice. The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) gives important advice but unlike the CAS does not have research institutes of its own. [37] The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) has a similar role to CAS for social sciences and ...

  4. Typhoid fever - Wikipedia

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    At that time, typhoid often killed more soldiers at war than were lost due to enemy combat. Wright further developed his vaccine at a newly opened research department at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London from 1902, where he established a method for measuring protective substances in human blood. [114]

  5. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    On Feb. 14, 2014, at the WIPP, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum (see photo). Analysis of several accidents, by DOE, have shown lack of a "safety culture" at the facility. [58] The 18,000 km 2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), which covers an area the size of Wales. The Soviet Union conducted 456 ...

  6. Hampton Roads - Wikipedia

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    The term "Hampton Roads" is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago.. The word "Hampton" honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.

  7. 1952 Birthday Honours - Wikipedia

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    The Right Honourable Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, Bt, CBE, MC, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.; The Right Honourable Sir (Alfred) Duff Cooper, GCMG, DSO, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1934–1935; Secretary of State for War, 1935–1937; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1937–1938; Minister of Information, 1940–1941; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1941–1943; HM Ambassador to ...

  8. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    Nixon submitted two significant medical research initiatives to Congress in February 1971. [113] The first, popularly referred to as the War on Cancer, resulted in passage that December of the National Cancer Act, which injected nearly $1.6 billion (equivalent to $9 billion in 2016) in federal funding to cancer research over a three-year period.

  9. RMS Lusitania - Wikipedia

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    RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal and portions of western Spain) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.