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111Mohmand Blockade — The Mohmand Blockade (1916–1917) was a blockade formed by a series of blockhouses and barbed wire defences, along the Mohmand border on the North West Frontier by the Indian Army during World War I. The Blockade began after a number of Mohmand… …
112Bad River Train Blockade — The Bad River train blockade was a 1996 protest on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Ashland County, Wisconsin USA. Ojibwe activists blocked the railroad tracks that would have brought sulfuric acid to a mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan… …
113simple blockade — A blockade which may be established by a naval officer, acting upon his own discretion or under direction of superiors, without governmental notification. In the case of a simple blockade, captors are bound to prove its existence at the time of… …
114violation of blockade — A cause under prize law for the forfeiture of ship, and in some cases its cargo, to capture and condemnation. 56 Am J1st War § 174. To constitute a violation of blockade, three things must be proved: first, the existence of an actual blockade;… …
115pacific blockade — noun : a blockade by one country of the ports of another without recourse to war * * * pacific blockade, a blockade imposed in peacetime to halt shipments into a country, especially to force it to follow some course of action …
116Paper blockade — Paper Pa per (p[=a] p[ e]r), n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa pyros. Cf. {Papyrus}.] 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be… …
117To raise a blockade — Raise Raise (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised} (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a …
118CSS Florida (blockade runner) — For other ships named Florida , see CSS Florida . The Confederate blockade runner CSS Florida , built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859, was thrice considered for a gunboat before she became one. Contrary to previous interpretation of the official… …
119Procaine blockade — is a medical treatment, where procaine solution affects the peripheral nervous system. Procaine blockade was developed by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Vishnevsky in 1929. There are lumbar, jugular, sacral, extremity and short neural blockades used.… …
120Stellatum-Blockade — Das Ganglion stellatum ist ein Nervenknoten (Ganglion) des Vegetativen Nervensystems. Es handelt sich um die Verschmelzung der vorderen Ganglien des Grenzstrangs des Sympathikus. Da das letzte Hals (Ganglion cervicale inferius) mit dem ersten… …
