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George Washington Goethals was an American army engineer. He was born in 1858 and died in 1928. He gained world-wide distinction as constructor of the Panama Canal. He entered the engineering branch of the US army in 1880, subsequently becoming an instructor in civil and military engineering at West Point.
He commanded engineers in a volunteer force during the Spanish American War, and afterwards served as a member of Board of Fortifications, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1907. He was appointed by President Taft chief engineer of the Panama Canal in 1907, which he carried to successful completion in April 1914, and subsequently from 1914 to 1917 was first civil governor of the Canal zone, being promoted major-general in 1915.
In 1917 he was recalled to take charge of a programme of marine construction, designed to supply quickly several thousand small wooden vessels, as a means of coping with the submarine menace, and his efficient mobilization of the nation's ship building resources helped greatly in countering the German U-Boat campaign during the Great War.
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A cordon is a line of military (and nowadays also police) posts placed around a district or house etc. in order to prevent communication between it and the parts around it, or to keep up an uninterrupted line of communication, to preserve an area either from hostile invasion or from contagious diseases. In the latter sense it is called a cordon sunitaire.
In fortifications a cordon was the coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyond the face of the wall a few inches.
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A coping saw is a long, narrow-bladed saw with the blade held tightly in a U-bend used to cut curves in wood. A coping saw is similar to a fret saw but longer.
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A fret saw is a long, narrow-bladed saw with the blade held tightly in a U-bend used to cut ornamental work from thin wood. A fret saw is similar to, but smaller than a coping saw.
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The HIV virus is an Italian variation of the Murphy Virus. The virus Spreads through coping itself to .EXE and .COM files, increasing infected files length by 1614 bytes. The virus hooks itself to Interrupt 21h and total system memory is reduced by 1632 bytes. Once the virus is resident in memory it will attach itself to every suitable file that is executed or opened. The date of the original file is not changed.
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The Love Bug is a comedy starring Bruce Campbell, Micky Dolenz, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth and Dean Jones in a story about a race car driver who becomes a champion with a Volkswagen beetle with a mind and life of its own while coping with an evil villain who creates his own evil version of the car. The Love Bug was directed by Peyton Reed in 1997.
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The Love Bug is a comedy starring Bruce Campbell, Micky Dolenz, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth and Dean Jones in a story about a race car driver who becomes a champion with a Volkswagen beetle with a mind and life of its own while coping with an evil villain who creates his own evil version of the car. The Love Bug was directed by Peyton Reed in 1997.
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A Christmas Story is a drama starring Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley and Darren McGavin in a story about a nine-year old boy coping with life and bullies while setting his mind on a major Christmas present in suburban America during the 1940s. A Christmas Story was directed by Bob Clark in 1983.
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Barefoot In The Park is a comedy starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer and Mildred Natwick in a story about newlyweds coping with hardship in a village. Barefoot In The Park was directed by Gene Saks in 1967.
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Do You Remember Love is a drama about a family coping with Alzheimer's disease. It stars Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley. Do You Remember Love was directed by Jeff Bleckner.
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