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  2. District of Columbia v. Heller - Wikipedia

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    District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and ...

  3. List of United States military schools and academies - Wikipedia

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    Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).

  4. Columbia Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Seventy-five percent of the range is located in Canada and the remaining twenty-five percent in the United States; American geographic classifications place the Columbia Mountains as part of the Rocky Mountains complex, but this designation does not apply in Canada (despite a British Columbia government tourism campaign to rebrand their ...

  5. Military government - Wikipedia

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    Types of military government include: Military occupation of acquired foreign territory and the administration thereof; Martial law, temporary military rule of domestic territory; Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally

  6. History of Colombia - Wikipedia

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    The military also suffered several setbacks in its fight against the guerrillas when several of its rural bases began to be overrun and a record number of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner by the FARC (which since 1982 was attempting to implement a more "conventional" style of warfare. seeking to eventually defeat the military in the ...

  7. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Military Earthworks Terms Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior; Military Terms Dictionary Lookup on military terms offering you clear definitions by some of the most reliable reference works in this field. Military acronyms and abbreviations

  8. Columbia Asia - Wikipedia

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    Columbia Asia is a multinational chain of hospitals and one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare companies in Southeast Asia.Columbia Asia started its operations in 1996, with the first hospital acquired a year later in Sarawak, East Malaysia.

  9. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    Using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, monimolimnion [33] and phyllophyllin. The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort.