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  2. Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud, letter-by-letter, and how the spelling words should be pronounced for use by the Allies of World War II. They are not a "phonetic alphabet" in the sense in which that term is used in ...

  3. Patricia Davies (codebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Davies (née Owtram; born 19 June 1923) is an English former codebreaker who served as a special duties linguist in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during World War II. She and her younger sister Jean Argles are often referred to as "The Codebreaking Sisters". [1] As a teenage interceptor, Davies listened to radio transmissions in ...

  4. Pelvic organ prolapse - Wikipedia

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    316 million women (9.3% as of 2010) [1] Pelvic organ prolapse ( POP) is characterized by descent of pelvic organs from their normal positions into the vagina. In women, the condition usually occurs when the pelvic floor collapses after gynecological cancer treatment, childbirth or heavy lifting. [2] Injury incurred to fascia membranes and other ...

  5. Morse code mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Visual mnemonic charts have been devised over the ages. Baden-Powell included one in the Girl Guides handbook in 1918. A contemporary Morse code chart. Here is a more up-to-date version, ca. 1988: Other visual mnemonic systems have been created for Morse code, mapping the elements of the Morse code characters onto pictures for easy memorization.

  6. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Morse code. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3] [4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy .

  7. Signal lamp - Wikipedia

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    Signal lamp training during World War II. A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically using Morse code. The idea of flashing dots and dashes from a lantern was first put into practice by Captain Philip Howard Colomb, of the Royal Navy, in 1867.

  8. Uterine prolapse - Wikipedia

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    About 14% of women [3] Uterine prolapse is a form of pelvic organ prolapse in which the uterus and a portion of the upper vagina protrude into the vaginal canal and, in severe cases, through the opening of the vagina. [4] It is most often caused by injury or damage to structures that hold the uterus in place within the pelvic cavity. [2]

  9. Morse code abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Morse code abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases. Morse abbreviations are short forms, representing normal textual words and phrases formed from some (fewer) characters taken from the word or phrase being abbreviated. Many are typical English abbreviations, or short acronyms for ...