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"ref": "1960, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts - Issues 16-20, page 85",
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"ref": "1984, Jadwiga Bezwińska, Danuta Czech, KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS, page 58",
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"ref": "1972, Telecommunication Journal - Volume 39, page 660",
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"ref": "1973, Sea Grant College Reprint - Volume 74, Issues 350-376, page 15",
"text": "Copper Harbor, where there are known copper veins, was used as a testing ground for the AMT method.",
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"ref": "1985, Donald C. Lorents, Walter Ernst Meyerhof, James R. Peterson, Electronic and Atomic Collisions, page 765",
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"ref": "1997, Craig W. Horle, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: 1710-1756, page 4",
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"ref": "2010, Julie A. Willett, The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia, page 64",
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"ref": "1972, Telecommunication Journal - Volume 39, page 660",
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},
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"ref": "1978, Space World",
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},
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"ref": "1985, “Boston On the Barricades”, in Newsweek, volume 106, page 70",
"text": "\"Boston must become a testing ground for the ideals of freedom,\" King admonished the crowd .",
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},
{
"ref": "1985, Donald C. Lorents, Walter Ernst Meyerhof, James R. Peterson, Electronic and Atomic Collisions, page 765",
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},
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"ref": "1997, Craig W. Horle, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: 1710-1756, page 4",
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},
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