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Compound (fortification), the Glossary

In military science, a compound is a type of fortification made up of walls or fences surrounding several buildings in the center of a large piece of land.^[1]

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps

The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps (abbreviated ACMTC; also known as the Holy Tribal Nation, the Free Love Ministries, or the Life Force Team) is a militant Christian fundamentalist new religious movement.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Aryan Nations

Aryan Nations is a North American antisemitic, neo-Nazi and white supremacist hate group that was originally based in Kootenai County, Idaho, about miles (4.4 km) north of the city of Hayden Lake.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Bab al-Azizia

Bab al-Azizia was a military barracks and compound situated in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, the capital of Libya.

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Barbed wire

Roll of modern agricultural barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.

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Blockhouse

A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. Compound (fortification) and blockhouse are fortifications by type.

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Boma (enclosure)

A boma is a livestock enclosure, community enclosure, stockade, corral, small fort or a district government office, commonly used in many parts of the African Great Lakes region, as well as Central and Southern Africa. Compound (fortification) and boma (enclosure) are fortifications by type.

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Border barrier

A border barrier, border fence or border wall is a separation barrier that runs along or near an international border. Compound (fortification) and border barrier are fortifications by type.

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Camp Nordland

Camp Nordland was a resort facility located in Andover Township, New Jersey.

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Camp Siegfried

Camp Siegfried, a summer camp which taught Nazi ideology, was located in Yaphank, New York, on Long Island.

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Closed city

A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight.

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Compound (enclosure)

Compound, when applied to a human habitat, refers to a cluster of buildings in an enclosure, having a shared or associated purpose, such as the houses of an extended family (e.g. the Kennedy Compound for the Kennedy family).

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Dawson Springs, Kentucky

Dawson Springs is a home rule-class city in Hopkins and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state.

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Elohim City, Oklahoma

Elohim CityElohim is a Hebrew word usually translated as "God", sometimes "Gods" because in Hebrew most plural masculine nouns end in –im.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Fortified house

A fortified house or fortified mansion is a type of building which developed in Europe during the Middle Ages, generally with significant fortifications added.

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A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.

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Gold Base

Gold Base (also variously known as Gold, Golden Era Productions, Int Base or Int) is the de facto international headquarters of the Church of Scientology, located north of San Jacinto, California, United States, about from Los Angeles.

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Hayden Lake, Idaho

Hayden Lake is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States.

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Imperial Klans of America

The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKA) is a white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.

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List of cities with defensive walls

The following cities have, or historically had, defensive walls.

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Military science

Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force.

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Mount Carmel Center

The New Mount Carmel Center was a large group of buildings used by the Branch Davidian religious group located near Axtell, Texas, north-east of Waco.

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Murphy Ranch

Jessie M. Murphy purchased 41 acres of the Lawes property in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles in the early 1930s.

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Nazi punk

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.

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Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli (وزیرستان حویلی|Wazīristān Havelī|Waziristan Mansion), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for Saudi militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by U.S.

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Outlaw motorcycle club

An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a bikie gang (in Australia), biker gang or motorcycle gang, is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rock Against Communism

Rock Against Communism (RAC) was the name of white power rock concerts in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and has since become the catch-all term for music with racist lyrics as well as a specific genre of rock music derived from Oi!.

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Separation barrier

A separation barrier or separation wall is a barrier, wall or fence, constructed to limit the movement of people across a certain line or border, or to separate peoples or cultures. Compound (fortification) and separation barrier are fortifications by type.

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Silver Legion of America

The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an American fascist and pro-Nazi organization which was founded by William Dudley Pelley and headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Stockade

A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall.

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Survivalism

Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tama-Re

The Tama-Re compound in Putnam County, Georgia (a.k.a. "Kodesh", "Wahannee", "The Golden City", "Al Tamaha") was an Egyptian-themed set of buildings and monuments established in 1993 on 476 acres near Eatonton. It was located at 33°20'24.8"N 83°30'39.6"W.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(fortification)

Also known as Security compound.

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