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  2. E. Phillips Oppenheim - Wikipedia

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    Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born 22 October 1866 in Tottenham, London, [1] the son of Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather merchant. [2] [a] After attending Wyggeston Grammar School until the sixth form in 1883, his family's finances forced him to withdraw [5] [4] and he worked in his father's business for almost twenty years.

  3. Phosphorus - Wikipedia

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  4. Lockheed P-3 Orion - Wikipedia

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    The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner; it is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) of submarines.

  5. E - Wikipedia

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    The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'.This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul, 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation.

  6. Positive end-expiratory pressure - Wikipedia

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    Applied PEEP is usually one of the first ventilator settings chosen when mechanical ventilation is initiated. It is set directly on the ventilator.. A small amount of applied PEEP (4 to 5 cmH 2 O) is used in most mechanically ventilated patients to mitigate end-expiratory alveolar collapse. [6]

  7. Universal health care by country - Wikipedia

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    Botswana established a free healthcare system that operates a system of public medical centers, with 98% of health facilities in the country run by the government. [citation needed] All citizens are entitled to be treated in taxpayer funded facilities, though a nominal fee of ~70 BWP (~US$6.60) is typically charged for public health services except for sexual reproductive health services and ...

  8. Handle with Care (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Handle with Care employs an alternating narrative style, in which various characters take turns narrating chapters and providing their perspective on the events that are unfolding.

  9. Patent claim - Wikipedia

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    In most jurisdictions, a patent is a right to exclude others from making, using, importing, selling or offering for sale the subject matter defined by the claims when the claim is for a thing (apparatus, composition of matter, system, etc.).