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  2. List of U.S. Department of Defense and partner code names

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    Combat Ban – Testing and evaluation of the Air Force Vought A-7D aircraft, cancelled. Combat Beef – Build-up of a strategic reserve within the USA for Tactical Air Command units in South Vietnam (also called Beef Broth) Combat Bonus – Test activities associated with AF exploitation programs, cancelled.

  3. Ray Mill House - Wikipedia

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    Ray Mill House is largely of 19th-century Italianate construction with later 20th-century Neo-Georgian additions. English Heritage describes the building as "Two storeys, asymmetric Italianate style with gables treated as open pediments. [...] North and south sides and west end have similar gables with tripartite ground floor window, broad band ...

  4. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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    Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .

  5. Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The impetus for the test ban was provided by rising public anxiety over the magnitude of nuclear tests, particularly tests of new thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), and the resulting nuclear fallout. A test ban was also seen as a means of slowing nuclear proliferation and the nuclear arms race. Though the PTBT did not halt proliferation or ...

  6. Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban ...

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    The organization was established by the States Signatories to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. Its main purpose is twofold: to promote the entry into force of the CTBT, and to establish a global verification regime in preparation for the Treaty's entry into force.

  7. X-ray - Wikipedia

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    X-ray art and fine art photography, artistic use of X-rays, for example the works by Stane Jagodič; X-ray hair removal, a method popular in the 1920s but now banned by the FDA. [140] Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were popularized in the 1920s, banned in the US in the 1960s, in the UK in the 1970s, and later in continental Europe.

  8. New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24 - Wikipedia

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    The Test series formed part of 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. Initially, New Zealand was scheduled to play a two-day practice match in Sylhet before the test series. However, after a prolonged World Cup campaign, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) requested to cancel the practice match, to avoid tiredness of the players.

  9. Firearms regulation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Even the UK's Olympic shooters fell under this ban; shooters could only train in Northern Ireland (where the ban did not apply), or outside of the UK, be that in the Crown Dependencies (made up of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man), or in foreign nations (in Switzerland, in practice). [76]