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2. United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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   The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...

3. SS Edmund Fitzgerald - Wikipedia

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   SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.

4. List of airline codes (S) - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of all airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators , the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included for completeness.

5. Spark-gap transmitter - Wikipedia

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   A second type of spark gap that had a similar quenching effect [15] was the "rotary gap", invented by Tesla in 1896 [92] [93] and applied to radio transmitters by Reginald Fessenden and others. [ 17 ] : p.359–362 [ 79 ] It consisted of multiple electrodes equally spaced around a disk rotor spun at high speed by a motor, which created sparks ...

6. Code page - Wikipedia

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   Code page. In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some contexts these terms are used more precisely; see Character encoding § Terminology.)

7. Gap, Hautes-Alpes - Wikipedia

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   Gap, Hautes-Alpes. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Gap (French pronunciation: [ɡap], Occitan: [ˈɡap]) is the prefecture of the department of Hautes-Alpes, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France.