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3. Chi-tai: Zone.
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4. To this day, it is unknown how much the living dead depend on sight. Return to text.
5. Haya-ji: God of the wind.
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6. Oyamatsumi: Ruler of mountains and volcanoes.
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1. The exact number of allied and neutral ships that anchored in Cuban ports during the war is still unknown.
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1. The station’s reentry “lifeboat.”
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2. The ISS ceased using electrolysis to generate oxygen as a way of conserving water. Return to text.
3. Prewar specs put the ISS water recycling capability at 95 percent. Return to text.
4. ATV: Automated Transfer Vehicle.
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5. A secondary task of the disposable ATV was to use its booster to maintain the station’s orbit. Return to text.
6. ASTRO: Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter. Return to text.
7. PSA: Personal Satellite Assistance.
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8. To this day, no one knows why the Saudi royal family ordered the ignition of their kingdom’s oil fields.
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9. The reservoir of Lesotho’s Katse Dam was confirmed to cause numerous seismic disturbances since its completion in 1995.
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10. The International Space Station is equipped with a civilian ham radio, originally, to allow the crew to talk to schoolchildren.
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1. Mkunga Lalem: (The Eel and the Sword), the world’s premier antizombie martial art. Return to text.
1. It has been confirmed at least twenty-five million of this number include reanimated refugees from Latin America who were killed attempting to reach the Canadian north. Return to text.
2. It has been alleged that several members of the American military establishment openly supported the use of thermonuclear weapons during the Vietnam conflict. Return to text.
1. Tread jobs: wartime slang for vehicles that traveled on treads. Return to text.
2. M-trip-Seven: The Cadillac Gauge M1117 Armored Security Vehicle. Return to text.
3. The chemical composition of the army’s battle dress uniform (BDU) is still classified. Return to text.
4. BS: Battlefield Sanitization.
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5. The assegai: An all-steel, multipurpose implement named after the traditional Zulu short spear.
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6. Noob: Short for “newbies,” zombies that have reanimated after the Great Panic. Return to text.
7. M43 Combat Observation Aid.
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8. I-Rations: short for Intelligent Rations, they were designed for maximum nutritional efficiency. Return to text.
9. KO: short for “Knock Out.”
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10. Concertainer: A prefabricated, hollow barrier constructed of Kevlar and filled with earth and/or debris.
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1. PT: Physical Training.
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2. AIT: Advanced Individual Training.
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3. AGN: Army Group North.
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4. China Lake weapons research facility.
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1. L (Lethal) pill: A term to describe any poison capsule and one of the options available to infected U.S. military combatants during World War Z.
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1. John Lethbridge, circa 1715.
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2. “The Sturgeon General”: The old civilian nickname for the present commander of the DSCC. Return to text.
3. Alan Hale, Senior.
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1. The highest fatality ratio of all allied forces is still hotly debated. Return to text.
1. Lion’s Roar, produced by Foreman Films for the BBC. Return to text.
2. Instrumental cover of “How Soon Is Now,” originally written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr and recorded by the Smiths.
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3. Pronounced “flies” mainly because their pouncing attacks gave the illusion of flight. Return to text.
4. At present, no scientific data exist to substantiate the application of Bergmann’s Rule during the war.
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5. LaMOE: pronounced Lay-moh with a silent e. Return to text.
6. Figures on wartime weather patterns have yet to be officially determined. Return to text.
7. Major Ted Chandrasekhar.
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