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National Assembly: any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament. From June 17 to July 9, 1789, it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the ... [18 Related Articles]
National Assembly: (from the article "China") ...Yuan's emissaries and the revolutionary representatives agreed that the abdication of the Qing and the appointment of Yuan to the presidency of the new republic were to be formally decided ...
National Assembly: (from the article "Burundi") ...the president, who is ordinarily elected directly to a five-year term, renewable once. The president appoints the Council of Ministers. There is a bicameral legislature, with power exercised by the ...
National Assembly Building: (from the article "Architecture") Wales opened a new National Assembly Building, which was designed by British architect Richard Rogers. The structure featured a dramatic undulating roof, like a row of hills-"rippling and swelling like ...
National Assembly for Wales: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...the striking contradiction of an unelected legislative assembly in a country that prided itself on its traditions of liberal democracy was apparent. Following referenda in Wales and Scotland, the National ...
National Assembly of People's Power: (from the article "Cuba") Under the constitution, legislative authority rests with the National Assembly of People's Power, whose more than 600 members serve five-year terms. The number of seats in the assembly has grown ...
National Assembly, Palace of the: (from the article "Lisbon") ...cable cars, and, in one case, an elevator (the Santa Justa Lift; an iron structure designed by French architect Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard). Just west and north of the heart ...
National Assessment of Educational Progress: (from the article "Education") The highest reading and mathematics exam scores in 30 years were reported in 2005 for nine-year-old Americans in the National Assessment of Educational Progress testing program, known as the nation's ...
National Assistance Act: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...of free health insurance and contributory social insurance) but differing from it in important ways. It regularized the de facto nationalization of public assistance, the old Poor Law, in the ...
National Association: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...Another group, led by Christopher Wyvill, a one-time Anglican clergyman, wanted a moderate reform of the representative system. Wyvill and some of his supporters played with the idea of a ...
National Association for Mental Health: (from the article "mental hygiene") ...of sound information. In New York City less than a year later, on February 19, 1909, Beers led in forming the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which in turn was ...
National Association for Mental Health: (from the article "mental hygiene") ...boards of hospital administration acting as regional agencies for the Ministry of Health. In the same year, existing privately supported mental-health organizations combined to form the (U.K.) National Association for ...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional ... [20 Related Articles]
National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis: (from the article "clinic") ...the cities, public health clinics are located chiefly in smaller towns and villages. In the United States the first great movement in creating public health clinics resulted in the founding ...
National Association of Amateur Athletes of America: (from the article "athletics") ...York Athletic Club, formed in the 1860s, that placed the sport on a solid footing in the United States. The club held the world's first indoor meet and helped promote ...
National Association of Base Ball Players: (from the article "baseball") In 1854 a revision of the rules prescribed the weight and size of the ball, along with the dimensions of the infield, specifications that have not been significantly altered since ...
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses: (from the article "Mahoney, Mary") ...nurse. One of the first black members of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (subsequently renamed the American Nurses Association, or ANA), she later joined the ...
National Association of Colored Women: American organization formed at a convention in Washington, D.C., as the product of the merger in 1896 of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National League of Colored ... [4 Related Articles]
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches: association of churches organized in Detroit, Mich., in 1955 by ministers and laymen of Congregational Christian Churches who did not wish to take part in the merger of the Congregational ...
National Association of Educational Broadcasters: (from the article "broadcasting") Noncommercial broadcasting has risen in the United States. The National Association of Educational Broadcasters serves educational stations with transcriptions produced by its members and by other domestic as well as ...
National Association of Evangelicals: fellowship of Evangelical Protestant groups in the United States, founded in 1942 by 147 Evangelical leaders. It embraces some 50 denominations, many independent religious organizations, local churches, groups of churches, ... [2 Related Articles]
National Association of Free Will Baptists: association of Baptist churches organized in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., in 1935. It traces its history back to Free Will, or Arminian, Baptists in the 18th century. These Baptists believed in ...
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics: (from the article "football, gridiron") ...brand of football. The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, created in 1940 by small colleges concerned about the state of amateurism in that sport, became the National Association of Intercollegiate ...
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players: (from the article "baseball") The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was formed in 1871. The founding teams were the Philadelphia Athletics; the Chicago White Stockings (who would also play as the Chicago ...
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...the lack of high-profile market scandals compared with previous years, investors were less inclined to file complaints against financial advisory firms. The number of arbitration cases filed with NASD, the ...
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage: organization formed in New York City in 1911 during a convention of state antisuffrage groups. Led by Josephine Dodge, the founder and first president, the NAOWS believed that woman suffrage ... [1 Related Articles]
National Atlas: (from the article "map") The National Atlas of the United States of America, published by the Geological Survey in 1970, contains contributions from all of that country's mapping agencies. Summaries are provided of all ...
National Autonomist Party: (from the article "Argentina") The entire country was now dominated by the National Autonomist Party, which had originally supported Avellaneda's candidacy and was now an alliance of the various groups supporting Roca. These included ...
National Autonomous University of Honduras: (from the article "Honduras") ...Efforts have been made to combat illiteracy, which affects more than one-fourth of the population over age 15 and is especially prevalent among older people. Higher education is centred at ...
National Awakening Party: moderate Islamic political party in Indonesia.
National Ballet of Canada: (from the article "Performing Arts") Following the Met's lead, the National Ballet of Canada offered "Live HD" showings of its December 22 performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at various Cineplex theatres, and Britain's ...
National Ballet of Cuba: (from the article "Cuba") One of Cuba's foremost artistic figures is Alicia Alonso-a dancer of international acclaim, the prima ballerina and founder (1948) of the company that would become the National Ballet of Cuba, ...
national bank: in the United States, any commercial bank chartered and supervised by the federal government and operated by private individuals.
National Bank Act: (from the article "wildcat bank") ...backed by questionable security (e.g., mortgages, bonds) and were located in inaccessible areas to discourage note redemption. Note circulation by state banks ended after the passage of the National Bank ...
National Bank of Angola: (from the article "Angola") The National Bank of Angola, which issues Angola's currency, the kwanza, acts as the central bank. Banks were nationalized after independence, but in 1985 foreign banks reentered the country, and ...
National Bank of Belarus: (from the article "Belarus") Independent Belarus restructured its Soviet-style banking system into a two-tier system consisting of the National Bank of Belarus and a growing number of commercial banks, most of which are either ...
National Bank of Denmark: (from the article "Denmark") ...national currency is the krone; though a member of the EU, Denmark has not adopted the euro, the EU's common currency. (In a 2000 referendum 53 percent of voters rejected ...
National Bank of Egypt: (from the article "Egypt") From its inception the National Bank of Egypt assumed the main functions of a central bank, a status that was confirmed by law in 1951. In 1957 all English and ...
National Bank of Poland: (from the article "Poland") During the communist era, all financial institutions were owned by the state beginning in 1944-45 and formed an integral part of centralized economic planning after 1949. The National Bank of ...
National Bank of Romania: (from the article "Romania") ...stability of Romania was threatened at various times during this period by severe inflation. In an attempt to lower the inflation rate, the Romanian currency, the leu, was revaluated in ...
National Bank of Slovakia: (from the article "Slovakia") The National Bank of Slovakia succeeded the Czech and Slovak central bank on Jan. 1, 1993, as the republic's principal financial institution. The bank's first major accomplishment was its conversion ...
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, Inc.: the larger of two associations of black Baptist churches that formed after a schism in 1915 in the National Baptist Convention. It is the largest black church in the United ...
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.: association of black Baptist churches formed in 1895 in Atlanta, Ga., from the merger of the Foreign Mission Baptist Convention (established 1880), the American National Baptist Convention (1886), and the ...
National Basketball Association: professional basketball league formed in the United States in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (founded ... [6 Related Articles]
National Basketball Committee: (from the article "basketball") ...a different set for each half of a game. To establish some measure of uniformity, the colleges, Amateur Athletic Union, and YMCA formed the Joint Rules Committee in 1915. This ...
National Basketball Development League: (from the article "basketball") In 2001 the NBA launched the National Basketball Development League (NBDL). The league served as a kind of "farm system" for the NBA. Through its first 50 years the NBA ...
National Basketball League: (from the article "basketball") The first professional league was the National Basketball League (NBL), formed in 1898. Its game differed from the college game in that a chicken-wire cage typically surrounded the court, separating ...
national bibliography: (from the article "library") ...their fields of work, and the most popular usually turns out to be informal discussions with colleagues. But this is by nature a haphazard process, and most countries now have, ...
National Black Women's Health Project: (from the article "Avery, Byllye") ...an alternative birthing centre, also in Gainesville. The self-help groups she initiated served as models throughout the nation and worldwide, and they paved the way for her founding in 1983 ...
National Bloc: (from the article "Kuwatli, Shukri al-") Kuwatli entered Syrian politics in the 1930s as a member of the National Bloc, an Arab group that led the opposition to French rule. Kuwatli assumed leadership of the movement ...
National Board of Medical Examiners: (from the article "medical education") ...conduct examinations of applicants to practice within the state, and they examine the credentials of applicants who want licenses earned in other states to be accepted in lieu of examination. ...
National Book Awards: annual awards given to books of the highest quality written by Americans and published by American publishers. The awards were founded in 1950 by the American Book Publishers Council, American ... [3 Related Articles]
National Botanic Gardens of South Africa: one of the world's largest botanical gardens, occupying a 1,305-acre (528-hectare) site in Kirstenbosch, near Cape Town, Western Cape province, South Africa. The 6,200-species collection consists almost exclusively of Cape ...
National Botanical Garden of Belgium: botanical garden consisting of the plant collections at Meise, on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium. The garden has about 18,000 different species of plants. Originally founded in 1870 on a ...
National Bowling Council: (from the article "bowling") ...functions, it is affiliated with a number of tournaments, most notably the All-Star tournament, a match game event begun in 1941 that in 1971 became the U.S. Open and a ...
National Broadcasting Co., Inc.: major American commercial broadcasting company, now a subsidiary of General Electric Company (GE). [9 Related Articles]
National Brotherhood of Base Ball Players: (from the article "baseball") ...of organized professional baseball, the owners had controlled the game, players, managers, and umpires. The players had begun to organize as early as 1885, when a group of New York ...
National Bureau of Economic Research: (from the article "Kuznets, Simon") ...of his father (who changed the family name to Smith, though the young Kuznets preferred the original name). He was educated at Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1926. In ...
National Campers and Hikers Association: (from the article "camping") The majority of organized campers in North America belong to local clubs, but there are two large-scale national organizations in the United States (National Campers and Hikers Association and North ...
National Cancer Institute: (from the article "pharmaceutical industry") This screening process was initiated as a cooperative venture between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the United States. Extracts from the ...
National Capital Development Commission: (from the article "Australian Capital Territory") ...to Canberra soon after the war were frustrated by the poor coordination of the provision of services. Following the recommendations of a Senate Select Committee for the development of Canberra, ...
National Capital Parks: system of national monuments and government-owned parks and recreation areas in and around the District of Columbia, U.S. The system was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1790 and became ... [1 Related Articles]
National Catholic Register: (from the article "Frawley, Patrick Joseph, Jr.") ...Frawley into an outspoken promoter of anticommunist and conservative causes. He gave voice to political issues through his Twin Circle Publishing Co., which purchased the National Catholic ...
National Cemetery: (from the article "Florence") Lynches River State Park is located in the county, as is the Florence National Cemetery, which contains the graves of Union soldiers and a small group of Confederates. During the ...
National Center for Atmospheric Research: (from the article "Pei, I.M.") ...firm, I.M. Pei & Associates (later Pei Cobb Freed & Partners), in 1955. Among the notable early designs of the firm were the Luce Memorial Chapel, Taiwan; the Mesa Laboratory ...
National Centers for Environmental Prediction: (from the article "weather bureau") ...weather services and through its specialized services to aviation, space operations, agriculture, maritime operations, and other weather-sensitive activities. In the United States, for example, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ...
National Central Bureau: (from the article "Interpol") Each member country has a domestic clearinghouse-called the National Central Bureau, or NCB-through which its individual police forces may communicate with the General Secretariat or with the police forces of ...
National Central Library: (from the article "Mansbridge, Albert") Under Mansbridge's administration, the WEA created a tutorial system and a scholarly library (National Central Library) for working people unaffiliated with an academic institution. He organized WEA branches in Australia, ...
National Centre for Scientific Research: (from the article "Joliot-Curie, Frederic and Irene") ...of 1936. As undersecretary of state for scientific research, she helped to lay the foundations, with Jean Perrin, for what would later become the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ...
National Centre of Independents and Peasants: French political party founded in 1949. It grew out of the National Centre of Independents, formed in 1948 by Roger Duchet, who, by the following year, had accomplished a coalition ...
National Championship Stock Car Circuit: (from the article "NASCAR") ...stock-car races in Florida throughout the 1930s and '40s, and, after several unsuccessful attempts to create a series of races that would determine a national champion, in 1947 he created ...
National Church of Iceland: established, state-supported Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland. Christian missionaries came to the country in the late 10th century, and about 1000 the Althing (the national Parliament and high court) averted ...
National Citizens Coalition: (from the article "Harper, Stephen") ...federation and conservative views on social policy. However, he chose not to seek reelection in 1997 after a disagreement with Reform leader Preston Manning. After leaving office, Harper led the ...
National City Company: (from the article "Mitchell, Charles E") ...of America in New York City, a position he held for five years. Mitchell formed his own investment house, C.E. Mitchell & Co., in 1911. Five years later he took ...
National Civil Police: (from the article "Guatemala") ...which had assassinated gang leaders and others, appeared to be privately organized and tolerated by the government. Criticism of the police, however, led to the firing of more than 500 ...
National Classical Music Institute: (from the article "Korea, South") ...and folk music, accompanied by native musical instruments, is performed occasionally at ceremonies and festive occasions. The government has made an effort to preserve the traditional arts. The National Classical ...
National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information: (from the article "mental hygiene") ...projects, and for the training of mental-health professionals. It has developed special programs in a broad range of social problem areas, from drug addiction to suicide prevention. The National Clearinghouse ...
National Coal Board: British public corporation created on Jan. 1, 1947, which operates previously private coal mines, manufactures coke and smokeless fuels, and distributes coal, heating instruments, and other supplies. Headquarters are in ... [1 Related Articles]
National Coalition Party: (from the article "Finland") ...parliament in March 2007 resulted in three parties' proclaiming themselves victorious: the Centre Party remained the largest party, with a 23.1% share (down from 24.7% in 2003); the National Coalition ...
National Collegiate Athletic Association: organization in the United States that administers intercollegiate athletics. It was formed in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association to draw up competition and eligibility rules for football and other ... [6 Related Articles]
National Collegiate Boxing Association: (from the article "boxing") ...boxing, and boxing is unlikely ever to regain NCAA status. However, it continues today at a college club level with 20 to 25 institutional teams involved each year in national ...
National Committee for Mental Hygiene: (from the article "mental hygiene") ...disorder and retardation, the conservation of mental health, and the dissemination of sound information. In New York City less than a year later, on February 19, 1909, Beers led in ...
National Committee for Political Reform: (from the article "Tonga") The National Committee for Political Reform was due to report in 2006. Prince Tu'ipelehake, King Tupou IV's nephew and a supporter of constitutional reform, was heading the commission, but in ...
National Communism: policies based on the principle that in each country the means of attaining ultimate communist goals must be dictated by national conditions rather than by a pattern set in another ... [1 Related Articles]
National Conciliation Party: (from the article "El Salvador") A second coup, in January 1961, brought Lieut. Col. Julio Adalberto Rivera (1962-67) to power. PRUD was dismantled and replaced by the National Conciliation Party (Partido de Conciliacion Nacional; PCN), ...
National Concord: (from the article "Tsankov, Aleksandur") ...where in 1910 he became professor of economics. Originally a social democrat, he had by 1922 moved considerably to the right politically, becoming in that year leader of the conservative ...
National Confederation of Hungarian Trade Unions: (from the article "Hungary") The Soviet-style Central Council of Hungarian Trade Unions was reorganized in 1988 as the National Confederation of Hungarian Trade Unions. It remains the largest trade union in Hungary, with some ...
National Confederation of Labour: (from the article "anarchism") ...led to worldwide protests and the resignation of the conservative government in Madrid. These events also resulted in a congress of Spanish trade unionists at Sevilla in 1910, which founded ...
National Confederation of Trade Unions: (from the article "Japan") ...other private- and public-sector unions were reorganized into the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo); those unions politically more to the left of Rengo formed the much smaller National Confederation of ...
National Conference for Unification: (from the article "Korea, South") The institutional framework of the Yushin ("Revitalization Reform") order departed radically from the Third Republic. The National Conference for Unification (NCU) was created "to pursue peaceful unification of the fatherland." ...
National Conference of Brazilian Bishops: (from the article "Camara, Helder Pessoa") Camara was ordained a priest in 1931. In close collaboration with Monsignor Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI), Camara founded the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in October 1952, shortly ...
National Conference of Christians and Jews: (from the article "Judaism") ...continued to hold irrational and hostile attitudes toward Jews, some liberal Christian voices were raised against anti-Semitism in the early decades of the century. In the United States the National ...
National Conference of Social Work: (from the article "Addams, Jane") ...for justice for immigrants and blacks, advocated research aimed at determining the causes of poverty and crime, and supported woman suffrage. In 1910 she became the first woman president of ...
National Congress: (from the article "Brazil") Legislative power is exercised by the bicameral National Congress (Congresso Nacional), comprising the Chamber of Deputies (Camara dos Deputados) and the Federal Senate (Senado Federal). Congress meets every year in ...
National Congress: (from the article "Vietnam") The year 2006 marked the 20th anniversary of Vietnam's adoption of its economic-reform program known as doi moi ("renovation") and the convening of the 10th National Congress of the Vietnam ...
National Congress of British West Africa: (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...African lands by European entrepreneurs or officials. The ARPS went on to campaign against the exclusion of qualified Africans from the colonial administration. Following this, in 1918-20, a National Congress ...
National Congress of Parents and Teachers: American organization concerned with the educational, social, and economic well-being of children. The PTA was founded on Feb. 17, 1897, as the National Congress of Mothers; membership was later broadened ... [2 Related Articles]
National Constitution Center: (from the article "Philadelphia") ...country. Included in the complex are Carpenters' Hall, site of the meeting of the First Continental Congress, and Philosophical Hall, home of the American Philosophical Society. Also nearby is the ...
National Consumers League: American organization founded in 1899 to fight for the welfare of consumers and workers who had little voice or power in the marketplace and workplace. Many of the NCL's goals, ... [3 Related Articles]
National Convention: assembly that governed France from September 20, 1792, until October 26, 1795, during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to provide a new ... [18 Related Articles]
National Convention of Nigerian Citizens: (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...the greatest challenge to British and African policymakers alike. In the south two nationalist parties emerged, the Action Group (AG), supported primarily by the Yoruba of the west, and the ...