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  2. Japanese ship-naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    The term maru is used in divination and represents perfection or completeness, or the ship as "a small world of its own". The myth of Hakudo Maru, a celestial being that came to earth and taught humans how to build ships. It is said that the name maru is attached to a ship to secure celestial protection for itself as it travels.

  3. Kobayashi Maru - Wikipedia

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    The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional spacecraft training exercise in the Star Trek continuity. It is designed by Starfleet Academy to place Starfleet cadets in a no-win scenario . The Kobayashi Maru test was invented for the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.

  4. Kobayashi (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Kobayashi Electronics, a corporation in the film Cyborg 2 Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation) , including ships named 'Kobayashi' suffixed "maru" " Kobayashi Maru ", the fictional test in Star Trek

  5. Kobayashi - Wikipedia

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    Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林, lit. 'small woods') is the 8th most common Japanese surname. [1] A less common variant is 古林 . Notable people with the surname include:

  6. List of Japanese hell ships - Wikipedia

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    Montevideo Maru (もんてびでお丸, Montebideo Maru) – sunk by Sturgeon on 1 July 1942. all 1,054 Australian POWs and civilians died. Nagara Maru [17] Nagata Maru; Nagato Maru; Nanshin Maru; Naruto Maru; Natoru Maru; Nichimei Maru – Sunk on 15 January 1943 by U.S. aircraft, transporting 1,500 Japanese troops and 965 Dutch POWs of which ...

  7. Maru - Wikipedia

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    Maru (cat), a Japanese Internet celebrity cat; Maru, a 1971 novel by Bessie Head; WD 0806−661, a star; Maru, a common suffix to Japanese ship names; See Japanese ship-naming conventions; Maru code , a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships; An alternate term for the Ancient Indian weapon maduvu; One of the ragas of the Sikh religion

  8. List of transponder codes - Wikipedia

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    Unmanned aerial vehicle in all classes of airspace and when instructed to enable transponder. [6] 7001 France: Used in some countries to identify VFR traffic. UK: Sudden military climb out from low-level operations. [2] 7004 UK: Aerobatic and display code in some countries. [2] 7100, 7200, 7300 US: External ARTCC subsets.

  9. No-win situation - Wikipedia

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    Carl von Clausewitz's advice never to launch a war that one has not already won characterizes war as a no-win situation. A similar example is the Pyrrhic victory in which a military victory is so costly that the winning side actually ends up worse off than before it started.