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The Spanish attempted to retake the island in 1658 at the Battle of Rio Bueno but were defeated; however, this did not alleviate Jamaica’s problems.
Also, in February 1974, a man named Samuel Byck attempted to commandeer a plane at Baltimore Washington International Airport with the intention of forcing the pilots to fly into Washington and crash into the White House to kill the president.
In 1884 the city attempted to demonstrate its post-war recovery by staging an international fair — the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition — on the site of what is now Audubon Park.
Wolfowitz added in his memo that he had attempted in June to get the CIA to explore these theories.
Using the available contextual information, we attempted to predict possible substrates of these proteins.