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Costa Rica
Costa Rica (meaning "rich coast" in Spanish), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Caribbean Sea to the east.

Chronology
Stephanie Gorgeouspalace 's first job as a mercenary was in Costa Rica, where apparently a civil war was being waged. After her unit is eliminated, she is saved from death by Sunazara Chimitsu.

Trivia

 * In real life, Costa only has only known one civil war, the Costa Rican Civil War, a bloody 44-days civil war in 1948, after which the government abolished the military permanently. A second civil war would be extremely unlikely, but it is most likely a result of ToAru being an alternate history.

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GREMLIN attack of a NORAD base
The GREMLIN attack of a NORAD base was an attempt by GREMLIN to seal off the Anti-GREMLIN Alliance's intelligence network. To do so, they sent the Magician Fenrir to a base of in Alaska, USA.

Carried out by Fenrir, the attack is inconclusive after the appearance of Oriana Thomson.

The attack
Fenrir appears in Alaska to take out a NORAD base there as a means of sealing off the alliance's intelligence network. When he reaches where the base's parabolic antennae arrays are stored, he is ambushed by Oriana Thomson, whom he effortlessly blocks with his magic. After the explanation of his distortion spell, she commented that she would just have to use the countermeasures she developed if she should have to fight Kamijou Touma again. Realizing she's comparing his power to the Imagine Breaker, he retorts that he doesn't completely annihilate the occult, just simply have the magic be "swept away", and cannot take the role of being a reference point for the world.

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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, named after the Roman god of war, and nicknamed the "Red Planet" because of its red soil. Mars is mentionned frequently or offhandedly throughout the series.

Agitate Halation Arc
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VS The World
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Martian Microbes
The Martian Microbes are a lifeform native to the planet Mars in the Toaru Universe, an intelligent species speaking Japanese. They are actually artificial microbes, developed in the scientific project called Mars World experiment.

Mars SS
After receiving signals from the Martian Microbes in her laboratory, Bisai Otome wished to take them back to Earth and shelter them. She tried to artificially create similiar microbes by reproducing the same environment as Mars on Earth and thus make regular microbes evolve. This was so she could investigate the microbes beforehand. This experiment was conducted in a small dome named Mars World. She managed to create microbes fertile enough to survive in the Martian environment, yet they gained no calculation ability like that of the Martian ones.

Bisai Otome raised the suspicion that someone might be pretending to be the Martian Microbes based on how the information about them leaked out; this is left unanswered.

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Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (11 January 1854 – 20 November 1918) was a Magician, one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the order Aleister Crowley once belonged to, alongside William Robert Woodman and William Wynn Westcott.

St. Germain Arc
According to Othinus, if one were to ask a random magician to name ten famous people, St. Germain's name would come up along side Rosenkreuz and Mathers.

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Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin (1869 - 1916) was a Russian mystic and preacher.

Background
The actions of Grigori Rasputin caused a corruption in Russia's government. Because of this, certain types of Magic were banned amongst Russia's Magic Side.

St. Germain Arc
Rasputin is listed as similar to St. Germain, an example of mysterious people who would occasionally appear in politics or high society and bring chaos to that nation or the world.

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Soul
A soul is the spiritual life essence of a person, which resides within a physical body while the person is still alive. After their physical body dies, or is destroyed, their soul continues to exist, and typically moves on to an afterlife.

Little is known about souls in-universe. The magic side has a multitude of theories on the definition of soul, and. A certainty is that Imagine Breaker apparently doesn't work on souls even if they are supernatural.

The belief in souls is especially prominent in Christianity. In Chrisian beliefs, the parallel destinations of either Hell or Heaven/Paradise is where souls are headed after death, or Purgatory in Catholicism for souls who need to finish being purified after death in order to enter Heaven. In some extremely rare cases, souls of criminals who were not worthy of going to Heaven but had been barred from entering Hell wander the earth for eternity, like the Jack-o’-Lantern.

Magic Names are supposedly carved onto a Magician's soul

Stiyl says Aureolus Dummy was made with an artificial soul

To find Touma, Index traces mana from Stiyl's runes, linking it to how, supposedly, when a soul is lost,a thin string would link the soul and body

Pope’s spell affects Fiamma’s soul

On the science side, the concept is even less understood.

Mikoto mentions the (disproven) theory of resulting in loss of mass of a corpse after death.

Hishigata mentions that, after researching where esper powers came from by dissection, he came to the conclusion it had to do with something like souls.

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Voodoo
Voodoo is an African diaspora religion and a type of folk magic, a mishmash of Afro-Caribbean witchcraft and necromancy marked by a belief in sorcery, primitive deities, fetishes, and magical spells and curses.

Principles
Voodoo comes in two major flavors: Haitian Vodou (also Vodun or Voudoun) and New Orleans Voodoo. Both derive from West African Dahomeyan religions, along with Lucumi/Santeria, Umbanda, Candomble, and similar beliefs, which share certain similarities. The slave trade brought these beliefs to the New World, where they became syncretized with the Catholicism and Francophone culture of the slave owners, with a little Native American influence where applicable.

Like most Magic, Voodoo Magic has a variety of uses, the most known are Necromancy and using Voodoo dolls (an effigy of a person) to manipulate them from a distance. The user can utilize voodoo magic, ie. access supernatural forces to improve their daily lives to attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. Extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions and bodily fluids, but in most cases, the individual have to offer up someone very close to them in order to sell their souls, eventually culminating in paying with their own lives.

Spells can be cast using a mirror and a sword.

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