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The two-character ISO 3166 country code for MONTSERRAT.

MS
1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Montserrat. This is the code used in international transactions to and from Montserrat's bank accounts.

2. ISO 3166-2 geocode for Montserrat. This is used as an international standard for shipping to Montserrat.


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By monitoring the brains of three patients while they performed a simple language task (looking at a word, then either using it in a sentence as is or changing its tense or number, and finally articulating it silently), Sahin and his colleagues found three distinct periods of activity in Broca's area at 200 milliseconds (after first being presented with the word), 320 milliseconds and 450 milliseconds.
I'd swap places with him in a millisecond if he wasn't Australian.
The new search technique would instead rely on radio waves generated like clockwork by millisecond pulsars--the collapsed remnants of massive stars that spin about once every one to 10 milliseconds.
 
 
 
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