• Contra Force is an run and gun game released by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 in North America. It is a spinoff of the Contra series...
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  • Contra is a video game series produced by Konami composed primarily of run and gun-style shooting games. The series debuted in February 1987 with the Japanese...
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    Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) emerged as the largest by far. In 1987, virtually all Contra organizations were...
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  • Contra III: The Alien Wars is a 1992 run and gun video game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is...
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  • Super Contra, known as Super Contra: The Alien Strikes Back in Japan, is a run and gun video game by Konami, originally released as a coin-operated arcade...
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  • Contra is a run and gun video game developed and published by Konami, originally developed as a coin-operated arcade video game in 1986 and released on...
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  • to Browny from Contra: Hard Corps) and Plissken (a reptilian alien) the Contra warriors manage to take down the Neo Salamander Force. However, Chief...
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    The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran...
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  • disappear and the local wildlife is devastated. Tasha, a member of the elite Contra Force, is sent to infiltrate the occupied temple, but goes missing during the...
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  • Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins...
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  • Contra: Hard Corps, released as Contra: The Hard Corps in Japan and Probotector in Europe and Australia, is a run and gun video game released by Konami...
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    of the dictatorship in 1978–79, and the Contra War[broken anchor], fought between the government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990. The revolution revealed...
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    Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP) coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually...
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  • Crash Labyrinth Runner MX 5000 Rack 'Em Up Life Force (Japanese Version) Typhoon (Ajax) 1988 Super Contra Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula in Japan) Chequered...
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  • Contra: Shattered Soldier, originally released in Japan as Shin Contra (真魂斗羅, Shin Kontora), is a video game that is part of the Contra series by Konami...
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  • Link cable Shared No *Also known as "Contra: Hard Spirits" Contra Force NES Shoot 'em up 1992 2 Local Shared No Contra III: The Alien Wars* SNES Shoot 'em...
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  • and Contra Force. The soundtrack was included in the Konami Shooting Collection CD box set released on September 22, 2011. Reception Crisis Force received...
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    Contra proferentem (Latin: "against [the] offeror"), also known as "interpretation against the draftsman", is a doctrine of contractual interpretation...
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  • Enrique Bermúdez (category Contras)
    Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the primary Contra movement. During the Contra war, Bermúdez held the nom de guerre Comandante 380. The Contras' guerrilla war...
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    Look up force majeure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In contract law, force majeure (/ˌfɔːrs məˈʒɜːr/ FORSS mə-ZHUR; French: [fɔʁs maʒœʁ]) is a common...
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    Adolfo Calero (category Contras)
    businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista government. Calero was responsible...
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    Troncoso JC (1998). "Acceleration-deceleration injuries to the brain in blunt force trauma". American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 19 (2): 109–112...
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  • differently depending on the country. Kundëradmiral (Albanian Naval Force) Contra-almirante (Angolan Navy) Contralmirante (Argentine Navy) Kontr-admiral...
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  • Duane Clarridge (category Iran–Contra affair)
    such as "Dewey Maroni" during these operations. He described the early Contra force as "about 500... some of them were former members of the Nicaraguan National...
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    The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF–I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of...
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  • Operation C (video game) (category Contra (series))
    Operation C (released as Contra (コントラ, Kontora) in Japan and as Probotector in the PAL region) is a 1991 run and gun video game by Konami released for...
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  • covers Contra and Super Contra and recalls how the game was a part of his childhood. He also covers the bad Contra games, including Contra Force, Contra: Legacy...
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    Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the...
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    centre, a cultural centre. We have lived in peace. A few months ago a Contra force attacked the parish. They destroyed everything: the school, the health...
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    shafts, with the same axis of rotation, but turning in opposite directions (contra-rotating). This rotor configuration is a feature of helicopters produced...
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