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  2. List of countries with overseas military bases - Wikipedia

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    The establishment of military bases abroad enables a country to project power, e.g. to conduct expeditionary warfare, and thereby to influence events abroad.Depending on their size and infrastructure, they can be used as staging areas or for logistical, communications and intelligence support.

  3. Why do concert tickets now cost as much as a games console?

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    The last time Oasis played Wembley Stadium, in 2009, a standing ticket cost exactly £44.04. For their return next summer, the same ticket was priced at £150. Vastly more than the old ticket ...

  4. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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    1973, Dean F. Bumpus, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Floating objects may ride gyres (large circulating current systems) that are present in each ocean, and may be transferred from one ocean's gyre to another's. Further, objects may be sidetracked by wind, storms, countercurrents, and ocean current variation. Accordingly, drift bottles have traveled large distances, with ...

  5. Salman of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 September 2024. King of Saudi Arabia since 2015 Not to be confused with King Salmon, Solomon, or Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud. In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Saud. Salman Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in 2020 King of Saudi Arabia Reign 23 January 2015 – present Bay ...

  6. Sri Lanka Army - Wikipedia

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    Over 23,790 Sri Lankan armed forces personnel were killed since the begin of the civil war in 1981 to its end in 2009, this includes 12 general officers killed in active duty or assassinated. [ 50 ] 659 service personnel were killed due to the second JVP Insurrection from 1987 to 1990. 53 service personnel were killed and 323 were wounded in ...

  7. Mohamed Al-Fayed - Wikipedia

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    Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed [a] (/ æ l ˈ f aɪ. ɛ d /; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.

  8. Pharmaceutical industry - Wikipedia

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    A drug manufacturer inspection by the US Food and Drug Administration. The pharmaceutical industry is an industry involved in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods for use as drugs that function by being administered to (or self-administered by) patients using such medications with the goal of curing and/or preventing disease (as well as possibly ...

  9. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    In 1774 he published a pamphlet containing the phrase, which Jefferson incorporated essentially intact into the Declaration of Independence: "All men are by nature equally free and independent". [13] [14] [15] The signers of the Declaration of Independence were highly educated and wealthy, and they came from the older colonial settlements.