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  • Thumbnail for Checkpoint Charlie
    Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991)...
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    support crews, with race organizers transporting gear bins to designated checkpoints for racers. Expedition: Three- to 11-day race (or longer), involving...
    12 KB (1,599 words) - 19:23, 22 May 2024
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    A border checkpoint is a location on an international border where travelers or goods are inspected and allowed (or denied) passage through. Authorization...
    20 KB (1,513 words) - 13:30, 24 December 2023
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    A random checkpoint is a military and police tactic. In a military context, checkpoints involve the setup of a hasty roadblock by mobile truck- or armored...
    32 KB (4,122 words) - 19:51, 16 May 2024
  • The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional railway bomb attack carried out on 1 May 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against...
    10 KB (1,050 words) - 07:08, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2015 Amado checkpoint protest
    The 2015 Amado checkpoint protest took place on May 27, 2015, when approximately seventy-five protesters held a demonstration at the United States Border...
    4 KB (382 words) - 05:42, 8 April 2023
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    Civilian checkpoints or security checkpoints are distinguishable from border or frontier checkpoints in that they are erected and enforced within contiguous...
    4 KB (350 words) - 03:33, 19 September 2023
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    The county's largest employer is the Falfurrias Border Patrol interior checkpoint on US 281, built in 1994 outside the city limits and significantly enlarged...
    31 KB (2,722 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2024
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    The Volnovakha bus attack was an attack on a highway checkpoint near the village of Buhas outside of the Volnovakha municipality in the Donetsk Oblast...
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    Berlin. A brief stand-off between American and Soviet tanks occurred at Checkpoint Charlie in October following a dispute over free movement of Allied personnel;...
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    RNZ National (Māori: Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa Ā-Motu), formerly Radio New Zealand National, and known until 2007 as the National Programme or National...
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  • Thumbnail for Attack on Derryard checkpoint
    Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) near the Northern...
    16 KB (1,585 words) - 06:45, 22 June 2024
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    game, called save points.[according to whom?] (Not to be confused with "checkpoints".) Save points are employed either because the game is too complex to...
    23 KB (3,131 words) - 22:17, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cell cycle checkpoint
    Cell cycle checkpoints are control mechanisms in the eukaryotic cell cycle which ensure its proper progression. Each checkpoint serves as a potential termination...
    34 KB (4,581 words) - 11:50, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cancer immunotherapy
    immunotherapy used to treat cancer: Immune checkpoint inhibitors: drugs that block immune system checkpoints to allow immune cells to respond more strongly...
    89 KB (10,348 words) - 21:20, 21 June 2024
  • United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. The stated...
    23 KB (3,188 words) - 06:37, 22 June 2024
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    An Israeli checkpoint (Hebrew: מחסום, mahsom, Arabic: حاجز, hajez), is a barrier erected by the Israeli Security Forces, primarily today part of the system...
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    CHEK2 (Checkpoint kinase 2) is a tumor suppressor gene that encodes the protein CHK2, a serine-threonine kinase. CHK2 is involved in DNA repair, cell cycle...
    28 KB (2,797 words) - 01:48, 26 March 2024
  • Checkpointing is a technique that provides fault tolerance for computing systems. It basically consists of saving a snapshot of the application's state...
    14 KB (1,915 words) - 15:27, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Checkpoint Charlie Museum
    Checkpoint Charlie Museum The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It...
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