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  • 71War Crimes Act of 1996 — The War Crimes Act of 1996 was passed with overwhelming majorities by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.The law defines a war crime to include a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions , specifically noting… …

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  • 72war crime — noun a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑crime, ↑offense, ↑criminal offense, ↑criminal offence, ↑offence, ↑law breaking * * * noun : a crime …

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  • 73War of the Lance — The War of the Lance is a fictional war in the Dragonlance setting, created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.Background100 years after the Cataclysmwhen, Takhisis, Queen of Darkness and goddess of evil, brought the destroyed temple of the… …

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  • 74War of the Golden Stool — Warbox conflict=War of the Golden Stool campaign= colour scheme=background:#bccccc date=March 1900 ndash; September 1900 place=Ashanti, modern day Ghana result=British victory Ashanti subsumed into Crown Colony The sanctity of the Golden Stool… …

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  • 75War as metaphor — The use of war as metaphor is a literary trope of long standing. Its currently liveliest metaphoric applications are circulated in the international effort of the War on Terrorism and in local efforts, such as the War on Drugs or the Culture War… …

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  • 76War/Dance — Infobox Film name = War/Dance caption = DVD cover director = Sean Fine Andrea Nix Fine producer = Sean Fine Andrea Nix Fine Eric Cleage Douglas Eger Daniel Katz Susan MacLaury Stephen Nemeth Mark Urman writer = Sean Fine Andrea Nix Fine starring …

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  • 77War and Decision — Infobox Book name = War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism title orig = translator = image caption = Book cover author = Douglas Feith illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English… …

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  • 78war driving — n. A computer cracking technique that involves driving through a neighborhood with a wireless enabled notebook computer and mapping houses and businesses that have wireless access points. Also: war driving, wardriving. war driver, wardriver n.… …

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  • 79war — {{11}}war (n.) late O.E. (c.1050), wyrre, werre, from O.N.Fr. werre war (Mod.Fr. guerre), from Frankish *werra, from P.Gmc. *werso (Cf. O.S. werran, O.H.G. werran, Ger. verwirren to confuse, perplex ). Cognates suggest the original sense was to… …

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  • 80War Before Civilization — In his book War Before Civilization, Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor at the University of Illinois, says that 87% of tribal societies were at war more than once per year, and some 65% of them were fighting continuously. One half of the people… …

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