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  2. Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets - Wikipedia

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    Because the latter allows messages to be spelled via flags or Morse code, it naturally named the code words used to spell out messages by voice its "phonetic alphabet". The name NATO phonetic alphabet became widespread because the signals used to facilitate the naval communications and tactics of NATO have become global. [ 2 ]

  3. Fourteen Words - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, [3] and ...

  4. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Usage: Short scale: US, English Canada, modern British, Australia, and Eastern Europe; Long scale: French Canada, older British, Western & Central Europe; Apart from million, the words in this list ending with -illion are all derived by adding prefixes (bi-, tri-, etc., derived from Latin) to the stem -illion. [11]

  5. Cargo 200 (code name) - Wikipedia

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    The first appearance of Cargo 200 is unknown, except that it came into use in the mid-1980s during the Soviet–Afghan War.The main theory of the term's origin is the Ministry of Defense of the USSR Order No. 200, issued during the on October 8, 1984, coincidentally setting the standardized maximum weight for the air transportation of a deceased soldier's body at 200 kilograms (440 lb).

  6. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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  7. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]

  8. Ray J - Wikipedia

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    William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), [1] known professionally as Ray J, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, television presenter, and actor. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, he is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy.

  9. Code word - Wikipedia

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    Code word, an element of a codebook designed so that the meaning of the code word is opaque without the code book Code name , a clandestine name or cryptonym used to identify sensitive information password , passcode, codeword, countersign; a word that is a special code for access, to pass a challenge of a sentry