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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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navy †ships, shipping; (arch.) fleet XIV; state's ships of war XVI. — OF.
navie ship, fleet — popL.
nāvia ship, boat, coll. formation on L.
nāvis ship; see
NAVAL,
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M2 Presswire; 10/14/2009; 700+ words
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Navy unveils stick shrine
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 4/12/2007; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 2/9/2006; ; 700+ words
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Navy day: A movable celebration?
Magazine article from: Sea Power; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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Navy Pilots Say a Cloud Is Hanging Over Them; Tailhook Sex-Abuse Scandal and News Media Seen Unfairly Casting Shadow on All Aviators
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/19/1992; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 10/4/2002; 700+ words
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Navy.mil gets new, crisp look.
Magazine article from: CHIPS; 10/1/2007; 700+ words
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Navy Probe Faults At Least 70 Officers; Senior Ranks Tied to Assaults at Convention
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/3/1992; ; 700+ words
; At least 70 Navy and Marine officers, including some of senior rank, have been implicated in a Navy investigation of sexual assaults and harassment...in Las Vegas last year, according to a Navy document released yesterday. In a memo...
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Navy customs mission makes history.
Newspaper article from: Navy Supply Corps Newsletter; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...visit Aug. 2 collecting oral histories about the Navy Customs Battalion missions at the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group in Williamsburg...Since December 2004, NAVELSG has been mobilizing Navy Reservists to fulfill a customs inspection mission...
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Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 9/11/1991; 700+ words
; ...severe downturn in defense spending, the Navy has been forced to take about a 24 percent...percent of the aircraft needed, senior Navy officials said at the Tailhook conference...Aircraft squadrons and a rotary wing, the Navy would need $9 billion annually. Instead...
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Navy Department
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
NAVY DEPARTMENT The navy is one of three primary components of the U.S. military. Incorporating...with the army and the air force as part of the nation's defense. The navy's mission is to protect the United States as directed by the president...
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Navy, United States
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...decisive victory. A New Nation's Navy During the next twenty years...established a Department of the Navy, which soon included a U...disastrous to their fortunes. The navies of France and Great Britain...impressing" into the Royal Navy American merchant sailors and...
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navy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
navy, from the Latin...merchant marine . Navies have been described...century three new navies, those of the...45), the US Navy, though once challenged...Frobisher , the navy came of age under...Warships of Selected Navies Built, Building...
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Navy
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
NAVY NAVY. Up to the late fifteenth century, permanent navies with ships built only for warfare...Venice had a major peacetime galley navy. Up to about 1500 the Ottoman and Venetian navies increased in size during the struggle...
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Navy, U.S
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Navy, U.S. Overview1783–18651866–18981899–1945Since 1946 Navy, U.S.: Overview In the summer of 1775...the first ships of what became the U.S. Navy. Through the course of the Revolutionary...
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