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  2. HAZMAT Class 1 Explosives - Wikipedia

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    HAZMAT Class 1 Explosives. US Army trucks laden with ammunition, displaying a Class 1.1D Explosives placard on the front. Hazmat Class 1 are explosive materials which are any substance or article, including a device, which is designed to function by explosion or which, by chemical reaction within itself is able to function in a similar manner ...

  3. Explosives shipping classification system - Wikipedia

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    Class 1: Explosives. Division 1.1: Explosive that has a mass explosion hazard. A mass explosion is a detonation of almost entire load instantaneously. Division 1.2: Goods and Substances without a mass explosion hazard, but with a projection (shrapnel/fragmentation). Division 1.3: Goods and substances with a mass fire hazard, and a minor, blast ...

  4. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to. essentially by naming powers of a myriad myriad. This largest number appears because ...

  5. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  6. Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes - Wikipedia

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    Lefschetz proved that any normal function determined a class in H 2 (X, Z) and that the class of ν Γ is the fundamental class of Γ. Furthermore, he proved that a class in H 2 (X, Z) is the class of a normal function if and only if it lies in H 1,1. Together with Poincaré's existence theorem, this proves the theorem on (1,1)-classes.

  7. Marxism - Wikipedia

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    He is famous for analysing history in terms of class struggle, summarised in the initial line introducing The Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Together with Marx, Engels co-developed communist theory. Marx and Engels first met in September 1844.

  8. USS LST-1 - Wikipedia

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    Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings (22 January–1 March 1944) Invasion of Normandy (6–25 June 1944) USS LST-1 was an LST-1 -class tank landing ship of the United States Navy built during World War II. She was the lead ship in her class of 390 and like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.

  9. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (caste) Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner ...