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Brazilwood is a common name for wood which yields a red dye called brazilin, which oxidizes to brazilein. The name is said to come from "brasa", Portuguese for "ember," owing to its red hue. Botanically, several trees of the family Leguminosae, the (Pulse family) are involved. Portuguese explorers used this name "Pau-Brasil" for such a wood from a South American tree (Caesalpinia echinata), which led to the name Brazil for its land of origin. This Caesalpinia echinata is also known as "Pau-de-Pernambuco" (Pernambu ...

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A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco, one end of which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth or lungs. The word cigar is from the Spanish word cigarro, which the Oxford English Dictionary suggests is a variation on cigarra, Spanish for "cicada", due to its shape, especially that of what is now called the perfecto. Other sources have indicated that it may be derived from the ...

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• Cigar - History
• Cigar - Origins
• Cigar - U.S. embargo on Cuba
• Cigar - Revival of interest
• Cigar - Manufacture
• Cigar - Composition
• Cigar - Wrappers
• Cigar - Fillers
• Cigar - Binders
• Cigar - Size and shape
• Cigar - Parejo
• Cigar - Figurado
• Cigar - Flavor
• Cigar - Popular culture
• Cigar - Health issues

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Concealment devices, as the term suggests, are used to hide things for the purpose of secrecy. Examples in espionage include dead drop spikes for transferring items to other people, and hollowed-out coins or teeth for concealing suicide pills. Examples in smuggling include suitcases with false bottoms for hiding contraband. The picture at right shows a hollow container, fashioned to look like an Eisenhower dollar, which is still used today to hide and send messages or film without being detected. Because it resemb ...

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The United States Customs Service (now part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection or "CBP") was the portion of the US Federal Government dedicated to keeping illegal products outside of US borders. It also regulated what could leave the United States and was partially responsible for who could enter the United States. Operations were divided into two separate sections - the first of which was the Office of Field Operations (OFO) which handled duties and tax penalties along with helping to prevent contraband from e ...

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• United States Customs Service - Commissioner
• United States Customs Service - History of the United States Customs Service
• United States Customs Service - Examples of illegal items

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In Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld universe, Überwald is a region on the other side of the Ramtops from Lancre and Ankh-Morpork. The area itself is huge and contains most of the land on the northern side of the Ramtops. Its name is German for across the woods, as a play on Transylvania, which is Latin for the same. In fact, this name was actually used for Transylvania in some documents from the 13th century. The region is based less on the real Eastern Europe, and more on the Hammer Horror stereotype ...

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• Überwald - Notable locations
• Überwald - Discworld appearances

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Honour (CwE) or honor (AmE) comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. Honour - Honour sex and violence. Previously, honour figured largely as a guiding principle of society, functioning as part of a code of honour for a gentleman and often coming to expression in the practice of duelling. One's honour, that of one's wife, of one's (blood-)family or of one's beloved formed an all-important issue: the archetypal "man of honour" remained ever alert for a ...

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• Honour - Honour sex and violence
• Honour - Cultures of honour and cultures of law
• Honour - Related concepts
• Honour - Quotations
• Honour - Honours and awards
• Honour - Feudal honours

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Confiscation, from the Latin confiscatio 'joining to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury' is a legal seizure without compensation by a government or other public authority. As a punishment, it differs from a fine in that it is not primarily meant to match the crime but rather reattributes the criminal's ill-gotten spoils (often as a complement to the actual punishment for the crime itself; still common with various kinds of contraband, such as protected living organisms) to the community or even aims to rob him of ...

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The Union blockade refers to the naval actions between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, in which the United States Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy. Confederate ships designed to evade the blockade were known as blockade runners, and mostly concentrated on running contraband between Confederate-controlled ports and the ports of Havana, Cuba; Nassau, Bahamas, and Bermuda, where ...

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• Union blockade - Proclamation of Blockade and Legal Implications
• Union blockade - Recognition of the Confederacy?
• Union blockade - International legal status of the South
• Union blockade - Imposition of the Blockade
• Union blockade - Effectiveness
• Union blockade - Major Engagements
• Union blockade - Squadrons of the Union Blockade
• Union blockade - Gulf Blockading Squadron
• Union blockade - West Gulf Blockading Squadron
• Union blockade - North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
• Union blockade - South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
• Union blockade - Confederate response
• Union blockade - End of the Blockade

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Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, usually water, or an aqueous solution, such as the asses' milk favored by Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Some spa facilities provide bathing in various other liquids such as chocolate or mud, and there have been examples of bathing in champagne. Additionally, exposing the body to open air is sometimes considered bathing, for example, in sunbathing or moonbathing. Bathing - Reasons for bathing. Bathing serves several purposes: Hygiene, and the neat physica ...

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• Bathing - Reasons for bathing
• Bathing - Kinds of baths
• Bathing - Bathwear
• Bathing - Hazards of bathing

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The Wire is set in a fictionalized version of the mid-Atlantic American city of Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts the ongoing struggle of a unit of police officers against drug gangs in the housing projects of the city's west side. The narrative is told from both sides. Central to the structure and plot of the show is the use of electronic surveillance and wiretap technologies by the police—hence the title "The Wire". The show was created by writer David Simon, whose true-crime book Homicide: A Year on the Killing StreetsSee also:

The Wire television, The Wire television - Overview, The Wire television - Cast, The Wire television - External link

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There is a pornographic culture just as there is a culture for foods or sports. Not all cultural aspects are equally represented, some are simply illegal or taboo in other countries. An expression of sexuality is more widely accepted in the mainstream media. Thus in many cases, scenes acceptable to Japanese audiences are unacceptable in other countries. Ribaldry is quite common even in child oriented materials and expressions that in most other cultures would not be acceptable for general audiences are shown without a warning. In an early ep ...

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Pornography in Japan, Pornography in Japan - History, Pornography in Japan - Laws and movements, Pornography in Japan - Anti-pornography movement, Pornography in Japan - Censorship Laws, Pornography in Japan - Religion and Pornography, Pornography in Japan - Culture, Pornography in Japan - Doujin and parodies, Pornography in Japan - Anime, Pornography in Japan - Games, Pornography in Japan - Internet, Pornography in Japan - Literature, Pornography in Japan - Magazines, Pornography in Japan - Manga, Pornography in Japan - Video, Pornography in Japan - Impacts on other cultures, Pornography in Japan - Asia, Pornography in Japan - The West, Pornography in Japan - Types of publications, Pornography in Japan - Magazines, Pornography in Japan - Publishers, Pornography in Japan - Studios, Pornography in Japan - Personalities, Pornography in Japan - Genres

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RMS Lusitania - Specifications. Gross register tonnage: 32,500 tons (89 340 m3) Length: 241m (790 ft) Beam: 30 m (88 ft) Number of funnels: 4 Number of masts: 2 Construction: Steel Propulsion: Quadruple screw, four direct-acting Parsons steam turbines Service speed: 26 knots Top speed: 28 knots Builder: John Brown & Co. Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland Launch date: June 7, 1906 Passenger accommodation: 563 first cl ...

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RMS Lusitania, RMS Lusitania - Ship features, RMS Lusitania - Specifications, RMS Lusitania - Comparison with the Olympic class, RMS Lusitania - Career, RMS Lusitania - Last voyage and sinking, RMS Lusitania - Cargo, RMS Lusitania - Passengers and crew, RMS Lusitania - Conspiracy theory, RMS Lusitania - Notes

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Noted towns in Überwald are: Bad Blintz Bad Schüschein Bugs Bonk (pronounced Be-yonk) Escrow Lipwig (pronounced with a V rather than a W. Known for breeding large and ferocious dogs—Lipwigzers; Birthplace of Moist von Lipwig) There are innumerable castles scattered around the cliffs and crags (You can't move for remote castles ~Lu-Tze) of Überwald so it would be impossible to name them all; some of the more notable ones are listed here: Don'tgone ...

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Überwald, Überwald - Notable locations, Überwald - Discworld appearances

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Military manpower Military age: 18 years of age Availability: males age 15-49: 3,743,353 (2000 est.) Fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,952,882 (2000 est.) Reaching military age annually: males: 182,936 (2000 est.) Military expenditures Dollar figure: $94 million (fiscal year 1996) Percent o ...

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Military of Côte d'Ivoire, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - Figures, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - Military regions, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - Gendarmerie, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - Navy, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - Air Force, Military of Côte d'Ivoire - International agreements

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Responding to the urgent need for revenue following the American Revolutionary War, the First Congress passed and President George Washington signed the Tariff Act of July 4, 1789, which authorized the collection of duties on imported goods. Four weeks later, on July 31, the fifth act of Congress established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry. For over 100 years after its birth, the U.S. Customs Service was the primary source of funds for the entire government, and paid for the nation's early growth and infrastru ...

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United States Customs Service, United States Customs Service - Commissioner, United States Customs Service - History of the United States Customs Service, United States Customs Service - Examples of illegal items

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Fort Monroe - Colonial Period. In 1609, Captain John Smith and the colonists of the Virginia Company who established the Jamestown Settlement on the James River in 1607 recognized the strategic importance of the site for purposes of coastal defense and built Fort Algernourne (1609-1667) at the location of the present Fort Monroe. It was a triangular stockage containing seven cannon and fifty people in 1614, and was rebuilt in 1632. Later, Fort George (1727-1749) was built on the site, but it was destroyed by a hurricane. Throughout the Colonial period, fortifications were ma ...

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Fort Monroe, Fort Monroe - History, Fort Monroe - Colonial Period, Fort Monroe - Early 19th century, Fort Monroe - American Civil War, Fort Monroe - 20th Century, Fort Monroe - Fort Monroe today, Fort Monroe - Base Realignment and Closure 2005

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Dorsetshire was in some ways a victim of the lack of British intelligence about the capabilities of the Japanese fleet. Neither Agar nor Admiral Somerville had any idea that the range of Japanese naval dive bombers was almost twice that of comparative British aircraft. To survive after getting a second warning of the presence of a large westbound Japanese Fleet in the Indian Ocean he would have had to leave ...

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Augustus Agar, Augustus Agar - Victoria Cross, Augustus Agar - Early Life, Augustus Agar - Character, Augustus Agar - World War One: The Grand Fleet, Augustus Agar - The Dardanelles and Guard Duty, Augustus Agar - North Russia, Augustus Agar - Coastal Motor Boats, Augustus Agar - The Baltic and the Bolsheviks, Augustus Agar - Between the Wars, Augustus Agar - World War Two: HMS Emerald and the North Atlantic Convoys, Augustus Agar - Operation Lucid, Augustus Agar - Coastal Forces, Augustus Agar - HMS Dorsetshire, Augustus Agar - Japanese in the Indian Ocean, Augustus Agar - End of the Dorsetshire, Augustus Agar - Discussion of the Loss, Augustus Agar - Later Life, Augustus Agar - Assessment, Augustus Agar - Reference

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Governor John A. Andrew sent Butler with a force of Massachusetts troops to reopen communication between the Union states and Washington, D.C. A major railroad connection from the Northeast passed through Baltimore and immediately after the start of the war it was unclear whether Maryland would stay in the Union. Butler arrived with the 8th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment by steamer at Annapolis on April 20, 1861. He employed his expert negotiation skills with the Governor of Maryland and by April 22 his regiment had disembarked and was put ...

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Benjamin Franklin Butler politician, Benjamin Franklin Butler politician - Early life, Benjamin Franklin Butler politician - Civil War, Benjamin Franklin Butler politician - Post war years

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Moldova is the second smallest of the former Soviet republics and the most densely populated. Industry accounts for only 20% of its labor force, while agriculture's share is more than one-third. It remains the poorest country in Europe. It is landlocked, bounded by Ukraine on the east and Romania to the west. Moldova's proximity to the Black Sea gives it a mild and sunny climate. The fertile soil supports wheat, corn, barley, tobacco, sugar beets, and soybeans. Beef and dairy cattle are raised, and beekeeping is widespread. Moldova's best-kn ...

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Economy of Moldova, Economy of Moldova - Overview, Economy of Moldova - Currently, Economy of Moldova - Trade Policy, Economy of Moldova - Fiscal Burden, Economy of Moldova - Government Intervention, Economy of Moldova - Monetary Policy, Economy of Moldova - Foreign Investment, Economy of Moldova - Banking and Finance, Economy of Moldova - Wages and Prices, Economy of Moldova - Property Rights, Economy of Moldova - Regulation, Economy of Moldova - Informal Market, Economy of Moldova - Statistics

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Fort Monroe - Colonial Period. In 1609, Captain John Smith and the colonists of the Virginia Company who established the Jamestown Settlement on the James River in 1607 recognized the strategic importance of the site for purposes of coastal defense and built Fort Algernourne (1609-1667) at the location of the present Fort Monroe. It was a triangular stockade containing seven cannon and fifty people in 1614, and was rebuilt in 1632. Later, Fort George (1727-1749) was built on the site, but it was destroyed by a hurricane. Throughout the Colonial period, fortifications were ma ...

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Fort Monroe, Fort Monroe - History, Fort Monroe - Colonial Period, Fort Monroe - Early 19th century, Fort Monroe - American Civil War, Fort Monroe - 20th Century, Fort Monroe - Fort Monroe today, Fort Monroe - Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Monroe - Redevelopment possibilities, Fort Monroe - Trivia

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