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  2. Montenegro - Wikipedia

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    Montenegro's (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ n iː ɡ r oʊ,-ˈ n eɪ ɡ r oʊ,-ˈ n ɛ ɡ r oʊ / ⓘ MON-tin-E(E)G-roh, -⁠ AY-groh; [22] Montenegrin: Crna Gora [a] / Црна Гора; [b] Albanian: Mali i Zi) [23] [24] English name derives from a Venetian calque of the Montenegrin phrase "Crna Gora", meaning literally "Black Mountain", deriving from the appearance of Mount Lovćen which was covered ...

  3. Tax - Wikipedia

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    Government expenditures and revenue in France during the 17th century went from about 24.30 million livres in 1600–10 to about 126.86 million livres in 1650–59 to about 117.99 million livres in 1700–10 when government debt had reached 1.6 billion livres. In 1780–89, it reached 421.50 million livres. [43]

  4. Canarsie, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    By June 2013, more than 10% of the residential buildings within Canarsie's zip code, 11236, were being foreclosed upon. [140] In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency started redrawing flood-risk maps in New York City to account for climate change. The original flood map in 1983 labeled 26 buildings under the ...

  5. O'Hare International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Company's contract ended with the war's conclusion. Douglas considered building airliners at Orchard but chose to concentrate civil production at its headquarters in Santa Monica, California. [10] With the departure of Douglas, the complex took the name Orchard Field Airport, and was assigned the IATA code ORD. [23]

  6. National Guard (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The act further expanded the National Guard's role, and guaranteed the State militias' status as the Army's primary reserve force. The law mandated use of the term "National Guard" for that force, and the President was given authority, in case of war or national emergency, to mobilize the National Guard for the duration of the emergency.

  7. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The airport is located 10 mi (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The airport covers 4,700 acres (7.3 sq mi; 19 km 2 ) of land and has five parallel runways which are aligned in an east-west direction.

  8. Hurricane Andrew - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Andrew was a compact, but very powerful and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck The Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. It is the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged or destroyed, and remained the costliest in financial terms until Hurricane Irma surpassed it 25 years later.