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  Agent Orange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Vietnam War, Agent Orange's official military purpose was to remove the leaves of trees to prevent guerrilla fighters of the National Liberation Front from hiding.
The judge concluded that Agent Orange was not considered a poison under international law at the time of its use by the US; that the US was not prohibited from using it as an herbicide; and that the companies which produced the substance were not liable for the method of its use by the government.
The song "Orange" by 10,000 Maniacs is often speculated to be about the substance, often supported by the claim that former singer Natalie Merchant's cousin was born without arms due to Agent Orange.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent_Orange   (1066 words)

  
 Orange (fruit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orange cultivation is a major business and an important part of the economies of the US states of Florida and California, many Mediterranean countries, Romania, South Africa, China, and the Riverina district around the Murray River in Australia.
Oranges are widely grown in warm climates worldwide, and the flavors of orange vary from sweet to sour.
Orange oil, produced by pressing the peel, is used in surface conditioning of wooden furniture, and along with other citrus oils in grease removal and as a hand-cleansing agent.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orange_(fruit)   (878 words)

  
 Orange (fruit)
Orange cultivation is a major business, and an important part of the economies of (among others) the US states of Florida and California, many Mediterranean countries, Romania, South Africa, China, and the 'Riverina' district around the Murray River in Australia.
Orange oil (produced by pressing the peel) is used in surface conditioning of wood furniture, and (along with other citrus oils) in grease removal and as a hand-cleansing agent.
Orange blossom honey (really citrus honey) is produced by putting beehives in the citrus groves during bloom, which also pollinates seeded citrus varieties.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Navel_orange   (797 words)

  
 Agent Orange (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agent Orange typically refers to the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used widely by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.
Agent Orange was also the name of a Dutch Hardcore punk band from Amsterdam in the early, till mid eighties.
Agent Orange is the name of a song by the group Depeche Mode.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent_Orange_%28disambiguation%29   (235 words)

  
 Orange (fruit)
An orange is the fruit of an orange tree, one of the most common citrus fruits, widely grown in warmer climates, and distributed worldwide.
Oranges are orange in color – the color is named for the fruit, not the other way around.
Orange cultivation is a major business, and an important part of the economies of (among others) the US states of Florida and California, many Mediterranean countries, Romania, South Africa, and the 'Riverina' district around the Murray River in Australia.
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 wiki/Agent Orange Definition / wiki/Agent Orange Research
Agent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicideA herbicide is a pesticide used to kill unwanted plants.
Agent Orange was used from 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year - i.e., one that looked the same upside down - since 1881, and the last until 6009.
Agent Orange was found to have toxic dioxinDioxins form a family of toxic chlorinated organic compounds that bioaccumulate in humans and wildlife due to their fat solubility.
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 Agent Orange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Each agent possesses the ability to act autonomously; this is an important distinction because a simple act of obedience to acommand does not qualify an entity as an agent.
Agent (law) - In law anagent is a person authorized to act for another person or organization, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney under the law of agency also known as an "attorney-in-fact" in contrast to an " attorney at law ".
Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands due to their monarchs originating from the principality of Orange-Nassau.
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 Orange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William of Orange was considered a threat to Spanish rule in the area and was assissinated in 1584 by a hired killer sent by Philip.
Since "orange" refers to a species of plant, anyone could hypothetically coin a new rhyme by creating a new hybrid with an orange and another species of citrus fruit and naming it (for example, a hybrid of a kumquat and an orange could be called a "korange").
Orange is a city in the département of Vaucluse, in the south of France.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /or/orange.html   (11299 words)

  
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Agent A, which for instance is a user interface agent, is willing to get pictures of diseased citrus for its user, who is a farmer and wants to discover a diagnosis for his citrus trees.
Then, Agent B finds pictures of diseased lemon and diseased orange and sends them to the Agent A. The scenario might continue with the user, that is, the farmer, looking at the several pictures and finding a match with the problem his trees have.
Agent B may also be more light-weight as it is not necessary for it to encode all the ontology since relations and definition of concepts can be accessed on demand by querying the OA.
www.omg.org /docs/agent/01-01-01.txt   (15599 words)

  
 Marijuana.Com Marijuana Seeds & Drug Test Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Orange cultivation is a major business and an important part of the economies of the US states of Florida and California, many Merranean countries,
orange zest which is popular in cooking because it has a similar flavor to the fleshy inner part of the orange.
Murcia orange is one of the sweet oranges used for juice extraction.
www.assault-weapons.com /wiki/Orange_%28fruit%29   (761 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
{{disambig}} Agent Orange typically refers to the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used widely by the United States armed forces U.S. military during the Vietnam War.
* '''Agent Orange''' was also the name of a Dutch Hardcore punk band from Amsterdam in the early, till mid eighties.
* '''Agent Orange''' is the name of a song by the group Depeche Mode.
www.mauspfeil.net /Agent_Orange_%28disambiguation%29.html   (237 words)

  
 Chocolate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flavors such as mint, orange, or strawberry are sometimes added to chocolate.
Usually, an emulsifying agent such as soya lecithin is added, though a few manufacturers prefer to exclude this ingredient for purity reasons and to remain GMO-free (soya is a heavily genetically modified crop), sometimes at the cost of a perfectly smooth texture.
The more expensive chocolates tend to be processed longer and thus have a smoother texture and "feel" on the tongue, regardless of whether emulsifying agents are added.
www.wikipedia.com /wiki/Chocolate   (3209 words)

  
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Being this orange book, for example, may be a mode through which I refer to a certain object on the table, but 'this' and, perhaps, 'orange' apply to the item only in virtue of its causal relation to an experient subject, in this case, myself.
But to dismiss the alleged entailments as enthymemes, or as pragmatic features of utterances, thereby depriving singular terms of much of their inferential punch, is reminiscent of the questionable thesis that all entailments are logically valid or that all necessity is logical necessity (see Kapitan 1982).
A speaker's use of singular term T in an attitude ascription A is internal relative to M iff the speaker intends to ascribe to the agent of A reference via M; it is external relative to M iff the speaker does not intend to ascribe to the agent reference via M.
www.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Kapitan/EXPORT52.html   (7474 words)

  
 agent corrected for agent orange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Agent Orange was found to have toxic dioxin breakdown byproducts which have been blamed for causing health disorders and birth defects in both the Vietnamese population and U.S. war veterans.
Although you probably found this site by searching for agent, it is probable that you were really looking for information on agent orange instead.
10 to 20% of all internet queries that contain variant spellings to the resources they were really looking for; in this case "agent orange" resources.
www.mistyped.info /agent%20.htm   (773 words)

  
 Iraq Museum International Open Encyclopedia: Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Heat, moisture, oxygen, and most corrosive agents have very little chemical effect on gold, making it well-suited for use in coins and jewelry; conversely, halogens will chemically alter gold, and aqua regia dissolves it.
Gold fields in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal were deep and require the world's deepest mines.
The Boer War of 1899–1901 between the British and the white Boers was at least partly over the rights of miners and possession of the gold wealth in South Africa.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Gold   (2756 words)

  
 Orange (fruit) - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All citrus trees are of a single genus, Citrus, and remain largely interbreedable – that is, there is only one "superspecies" which includes lemons and limes as well as oranges.
The fruit originated in India (some say Vietnam) and was called na rangi in Sanskrit.
Bitter oranges are used in marmalade and as an ingredient in of the liqueurs triple sec and curacao.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Citrus_sinensis   (772 words)

  
 bank.ca - agent noun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"the market for software is expected to expand") agent: The noun agent has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts) 1.
The agent noun 'cutter' means a person who cuts...
Definition of the word agent with genus individual - Organon v3.0 by Frederick Cli...
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 Acridine Orange Direct Count Method   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In German kingdoms the title was combined with the word for the jurisdiction or domain the nobleman was responsible for, such as"Landgraf" - landgrave, "Burggraf" - burgrave (burg = castle).
In layman's terms, a method is a series of steps taken to accomplish an objective.
Method acting is a style of acting in which the actor attempts to replicate the conditions under which the character operates.
www.eurostudent.net /info/38767-acridine-orange-direct-count-method.html   (1047 words)

  
 All about Agent Orange - RecipeLand.com Reference library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Agent Orange was used from 1961 to 1970 and has disputedly caused serious harm to the health of both Vietnamese and Americans, their children and grandchildren.
de:Agent Orange fr:Agent orange it:Agente Arancio ja:枯葉剤 sv:Agent Orange
This page was last modified 16:04, 1 Feb 2005.
www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Agent_Orange   (703 words)

  
 Information extraction system and method using concept-relation-concept (CRC) triples - US Patent 6263335   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At this stage the documents are parsed structurally to identify sentence and paragraph boundaries, optionally parsed by a syntactic parser, tagged for parts of speech, and analyzed for numeric concepts and linguistic structures.
The Sense Disambiguator can determine which meaning is used for a word by examining the context in which it occurs, and in particular which words co-occur.
Fred is the agent of the action "raised" in the first sentence, while Fred is the recipient of the action "raising taxes" in the second sentence.
www.patentstorm.us /patents/6263335.html   (14121 words)

  
 Acridine Orange Stain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
1) " Acridine" -- As to Acridine Orange Stain
Acridine, C 13 H 9 N, is a heterocyclicring compound found in crude coal-tar anthracene.
2) " Orange" -- As to Acridine Orange Stain
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 orange - OneLook Dictionary Search
Orange, orange : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include orange: agent orange, osage orange, mock orange, navel orange, orange peel, more...
Words similar to orange: orangeism, orangeness, orangish, orange tree, more...
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 Fruit
In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would be plum, apple, and orange.
Examples are the pineapple, edible fig, mulberry, osage orange, and breadfruit.
On the plate is cottage cheese, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cantaloupe, orange slices and rasberries.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Fr/Fruit.html   (4041 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Orange tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Updated 180 days 5 hours 9 minutes ago.
It has a thick bitter rind that is usually discarded, but can be used in certain recipes as flavoring or a garnish.
Tangerine, Mandarin orange, Kumquat, Orangewater, Lue Gim Gong
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Orange-tree   (807 words)

  
 Atrium West Orange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Anatomy, Atriym refers to a structure of the heart.
Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands due to their monarchs originating from the principality of Otange -Nassau.
The nickname of the Dutch national soccer team is Oranje, which is Dutch for Oranhe.
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 Discontinued Crystal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apple Macintosh 55: it was not a success for Apple, and the line was discontinued in 1986.
Agent Orange 8: Agent Orange as a military defoliant was discontinued in 1971 ; 2,4-D continues to be widely used as
A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packedin a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.
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 realnews.ca - Cauterization Agent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
definitions (Cauterization) noun: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or...
...cause to be perceived causal agent causing cauterization...
actual cautery, the application of an agent that actually burns...
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 travel.ca - Travel Agent Fam Trips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Famrates.com is your "One-Stop" source for finding hundreds of travel agent discounts and Fam Trips.
Fam Trips » Fam Trip, Familiarization Trips, Travel Agent Rates,...
A guide to fam trips, industry rates, discounts and travel agent resources.
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