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  • 71Territorial Defense Forces (Yugoslavia) — Territorial Defense Forces (Serbian and Macedonian: Територијална одбрана, Teritorijalna odbrana , Croatian: Teritorijalna obrana , Slovenian: Teritorialna obramba ) were a separate part of the armed forces of the former Socialist Federal… …

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  • 72Agelenopsis aperta — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Ara …

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  • 73History of Warsaw — The history of Warsaw, is mostly synonymous with the history of Poland. Warsaw was founded in the 9th century and for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as the Warsaw Old Town. During this time the city has… …

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  • 74A Crane's Critique — Infobox Television episode | Title = A Crane s Critique Series = Frasier Season = 4 Episode = 04 Airdate = 22 October 1996 Writer = Dan Cohen F. J. Pratt Director = Jeffrey Melman Guests = Robert Prosky (T.H. Houghton) Prev = The Impossible Dream …

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  • 75regatta — /ri gat euh, gah teuh/, n. 1. a boat race, as of rowboats, yachts, or other vessels. 2. an organized series of such races. 3. (originally) a gondola race in Venice. 4. a strong, striped cotton fabric that is of twill weave. [1645 55; < Upper It&#8230; …

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  • 76Distributed coordination function — (DCF) is the fundamental MAC technique of the IEEE 802.11 based WLAN standard. DCF employs a CSMA/CA with binary exponential backoff algorithm. DCF requires a station wishing to transmit to listen for the channel status for a DIFS interval. If&#8230; …

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  • 77catch — [13] Originally catch meant ‘chase, hunt’ (and in fact it is etymologically related to the English word chase). However, it remarkably quickly moved on to be applied to the next logical step in the procedure, ‘capture’, and by the early 16th&#8230; …

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  • 78cater — [16] Cater is related to French acheter ‘buy’, and originally meant ‘buy provisions’. It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre, a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ad ‘to’ and the verb captāre ‘try to seize’ (source of English&#8230; …

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  • 79chase — There are two distinct words chase in English, although they may come from the same ultimate source. The commoner, and older, ‘pursue’ [13], comes via Old French chacier from Vulgar Latin *captiāre (which also produced Anglo Norman cachier,&#8230; …

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  • 80catch — {{11}}catch (n.) late 14c., device to hold a latch of a door, also a trap; also a fishing vessel, from CATCH (Cf. catch) (v.). Meaning that which is caught or worth catching (especially of spouses) is from 1590s. Sense of hidden cost,&#8230; …

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