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51Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
52prescription — pre·scrip·tion /pri skrip shən/ n [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning,… …
53Government procurement in the United States — is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting, but is subject to special laws and regulation as described below. Persons entering into commercial contracts are pretty much free to do anything that they can agree on. Each… …
54Louisiana Purchase — For other uses, see Louisiana Purchase (disambiguation). Louisiana Purchase Vente de la Louisiane expansion of the United States …
55Collecting — This article is about the hobby. For other uses of the general concept, see Collection (disambiguation). Collecting Collectable • Antique • Antiquities Terms Ephemera • Memorabilia Premium • Prize Souvenir • Special… …
56Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — MGM redirects here. For other uses, see MGM (disambiguation). Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc. Type Privately held company[1] Industry Film …
57Double-checked locking — In software engineering, double checked locking (also known as double checked locking optimization[1] .) is a software design pattern used to reduce the overhead of acquiring a lock by first testing the locking criterion (the lock hint ) without… …
58Vishnu sahasranama — The Vishnu sahasranāma (literally: the thousand names of Vishnu ) is a list of 1,000 names for Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the personal supreme God for Vaishnavas (followers of Vishnu). It is also one of the most sacred… …
59Escafil device — Plot element from the Animorphs series of prose fiction Publisher Scholastic First appearance The Invasion Created by K.A. Applegate …
60Disk compression — A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which compresses only specified files and which requires the user designate the files …
