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** Slab pull force, the tectonic plate force due to subduction
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** The U. S. Marines announce it will pull out of Fallujah over a two or three week period and hand over control to the Iraqi army.
** NDP: Layton abandons a long-standing NDP policy, saying that he would not pull Canada out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if elected.
** Ballast tractor, a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads
** and force
** Tiger kidnapping, taking a hostage to force a loved one or associate of the victim to do something
** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.
** United Arab Emirates Marines-The UAE maintains a small battalion sized marine force called the UAE Marines.
** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.
** Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.
** The first official large unit action of the Vietnam War took place when two companies of the ARVN 23d Division were ambushed by a well-organized Vietcong force of several hundred identified as the " 2d Liberation Battalion ".
** Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
** Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
** Battle of Mañeru-Third Carlist War-In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action.
** African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence.
** Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force.
** The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
** and tectonic
** Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Antarctic tectonic plates
** Pacific-Kula Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Kula tectonic plates
** Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Farallon tectonic plates
** and plate
** Macroevolution: adaptive radiation — convergent evolution — extinction — mass extinction — fossil — taphonomy — geologic time — plate tectonics — continental drift — vicariance — Gondwana — Pangaea — endosymbiosis
** Shims left out from front end of torque tube drive plate in automatic cars, this sometimes cause engine thrust bearing failures.
** Corner blocks or plate blocks – compose a block of stamps from one of the four corners of the stamp sheet.
** Before the introduction of rollfilm, folding plate cameras with limited movements as described here were often used ; an example is the Goerz Taro-Tenax 9x12cm.
** 7 percussionists: claves, congas, glockenspiel, chimes, Chinese cymbals, bass drum, 2 xylophones ( 4 hands ), bell plate, 6 almglocken, 5 bongos
** 2 harps, piano, guitar, vibraphone, tubular bells, xylophone, bass drum ( playing the vibraphone and timbales ), gongs ( playing the tom-tom and plate bells )
** Number plate restrictions based on days of the week, as practiced in several large cities in the world, such as Athens, Mexico City, Manila and São Paulo.
** The codes listed above, Potable / Non-potable at the top, Path / Roadway on the bottom of the plate.
** A black line across the center of the plate indicates the hydrant is found on the opposite side of the road to which the plate is affixed.
** If the batter-runner safely reaches second base regardless of the outcome at home plate, his single still stands, but he is said to have taken second on the throw, or on fielder's choice.
** If the batter-runner is thrown out at second base regardless of the outcome at home plate, he is still credited with a single, since the put out was a consequence of his attempt to take second on the throw.
** Behind this process a broad, thin plate, the ethmoidal process, ascends to join the uncinate process of the ethmoid ; from its lower border a thin lamina, the maxillary process, curves downward and lateralward ; it articulates with the maxilla and forms a part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus.
** Transmission: 6-speed manual, two plate ceramic dry clutch ( PCCC-Porsche Ceramic Composite Clutch )
2.159 seconds.