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  • Vascular resistance is the resistance that must be overcome to push blood through the circulatory system and create blood flow. The resistance offered by the...
    21 KB (3,061 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2024
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    opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in resistance, including attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime. German resistance was not...
    169 KB (23,766 words) - 01:18, 20 May 2024
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    fanatical Etienne-Alexandre Bernier refused to accept the peace settlement and continued to offer resistance to Hoche's army. They were supported by the...
    15 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 30 December 2023
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    Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social...
    91 KB (11,565 words) - 22:20, 22 May 2024
  • to compel them to do something; often the individual will offer resistance and attempt to extricate themselves from the situation. Some individuals are...
    20 KB (2,562 words) - 02:04, 30 December 2023
  • During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed...
    78 KB (9,225 words) - 03:45, 7 May 2024
  • entry into the city and posted themselves outside Mecca, determined to offer resistance even though the Muslims did not have any intention or preparation for...
    5 KB (563 words) - 16:40, 23 January 2024
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    apartment buildings). PTACs are mostly used to cool individual living spaces, there are units which offer resistance heating and/or heat pumps. (The latter...
    2 KB (233 words) - 14:02, 6 February 2024
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    The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France...
    239 KB (32,998 words) - 23:07, 20 May 2024
  • Israel's Olympic team were taken hostage after two others, who had offered resistance, were shot dead. Afif was the chief negotiator on behalf of the Palestinians...
    13 KB (1,342 words) - 12:51, 20 January 2024
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    wanted to enter Batumi, and the Georgian Menshevik government was in no position to offer resistance. Georgian Mensheviks used the circumstances to prolong...
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  • console games offer extensive stat tracking for online combat, and Resistance 2 even requires online play to unlock some of its trophies. Resistance: The Gathering...
    14 KB (1,539 words) - 02:16, 20 December 2023
  • Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature. Many RTD elements consist of a...
    29 KB (3,851 words) - 20:00, 7 May 2024
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    electrical instrument that measures electrical resistance (the opposition offered by a circuit or component to the flow of electric current). Multimeters...
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    Resistor (redirect from High resistance)
    implements electrical resistance as a circuit element. In electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow, adjust signal levels, to divide voltages...
    71 KB (8,285 words) - 12:15, 31 March 2024
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    partisans to name two major French Resistance movements set up to fight against the Nazi Germany during World War II. The term is sometimes used to refer...
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  • Nonresistance (redirect from Non-resistance)
    exercised". At its core is discouragement of, even opposition to, physical resistance to an enemy. It is considered as a form of principled nonviolence...
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    again from Normandy and never returned. Count Geoffrey continued to offer resistance in Maine against the Norman expansion until his death on 14 November...
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  • thermal resistance are fundamental concepts that describe the ability of materials or systems to conduct heat and the opposition they offer to the heat...
    29 KB (2,781 words) - 01:02, 10 January 2024
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    of the non-Serb population, Croats in particular, were unwilling to offer resistance. In its worst expression, Yugoslavia's defenses were badly compromised...
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