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National Greyhound Racing Club: (from the article "dog racing") In England there are normally eight races to a meeting. The National Greyhound Racing Club (founded 1928), the governing body, established race distances for flat and hurdle races from 230 ...
National Guard: (from the article "Nicaragua") The Marines withdrew upon the inauguration of Sacasa, and Sandino submitted to his government. A Nicaraguan National Guard, trained by the U.S. Marines and commanded by Gen. Anastasio Somoza Garcia, ...
National Guard: (from the article "United States") Tension over funding and control of state National Guard troops continued to simmer. After Louisiana's governor turned down a federal National Guard takeover in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in ...
National Guinean Ballet: (from the article "Guinea") The professional National Guinean Ballet, which emerged after independence, has retained some of the dance and music of the distinct ethnic and regional groups. Creative accomplishments in modern dance and ...
National Gymnasiums: (from the article "Tange Kenzo") Tange's work during the 1960s took more boldly dramatic forms with the use of reinforced concrete and innovative engineering. For the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he designed the National ...
National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians: (from the article "Oklahoma") ...and Indians may be seen at numerous rodeos and at annual performances of Red Earth or at the American Indian Exposition. As host of the annual exposition and the site ...
National Health Program: (from the article "Social Protection") Since 1962 the Canadian national health system had covered all citizens with government-financed insurance that paid most medical expenses. At one time the federal government had provided about one-third of ...
National Health Service: in Great Britain, a comprehensive public-health service under government administration, established by the National Health Service Act of 1946 and subsequent legislation. Virtually the entire population is covered, and health ... [9 Related Articles]
National Health Service Act: (from the article "National Health Service") in Great Britain, a comprehensive public-health service under government administration, established by the National Health Service Act of 1946 and subsequent legislation. Virtually the entire population is covered, and health ...
National Health, Department of: (from the article "South Africa") ...among blacks, and, at the beginning of the 21st century, South Africa ranked near the top of United Nations estimates of proportions of national populations infected with HIV. Since 1994 ...
National Heart and Lung Institute: (from the article "Kensington and Chelsea") ...displays of Victorian art. Collections on the history of the British military since 1485 are in the National Army Museum, which also features an extensive reference library. The headquarters of ...
National Herbarium: (from the article "Hitchcock, Albert Spear") In 1901 he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture and began his worldwide travels to collect grass samples for the National Herbarium in Washington, D.C. He increased its collection of ...
National Herbarium of New South Wales: (from the article "Royal Botanic Gardens") ...the woody ones, and hence, its collections of Australian trees are extensive. Many exotic varieties, however, have also been planted. Other specialties are palms, cycads, ferns, and orchids. The National ...
National Heritage Fellowship Award: (from the article "National Endowment for the Arts") ...projects: for example, to an author for writing a novel or to a jazz musician for composing an extended work. The endowment has especially encouraged culturally diverse American arts, providing ...
National Hispanic Heritage Month: month (September 15-October 15) in which the people of the United States honour the achievements of Hispanics. The celebration was first authorized in 1968, when the U.S. Congress adopted a ...
National Hockey Association: (from the article "ice hockey") The National Hockey Association (NHA), the forerunner of the National Hockey League (NHL), was organized in 1910 and became the strongest hockey association in North America. Rising interest in the ...
National Hockey League: organization of professional ice hockey teams in North America, formed in 1917 by five Canadian teams, to which the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, was added in 1924. The ... [7 Related Articles]
National Horse Show: (from the article "horsemanship") The National Horse Show at New York, first held in 1883, is another great yearly event. Held at Madison Square Garden, it lasts several days and includes about 10 different ...
National Hot Rod Association: (from the article "drag racing") ...urged various local hot rod clubs to join together with the SCTA in a larger national organization to promote safety and sanctioned racing meets. In 1951 he became the first ...
National Human Genome Research Institute: (from the article "Collins, Francis") In 1993 Collins, by then a full professor, left Michigan to take the post as head of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the NIH, which had begun ...
National Humane Education Center: (from the article "Hylton, R. Dale") After briefly serving as interim director of the New Jersey branch of the HSUS, Hylton was appointed in 1967 as program director of the National Humane Education Center (NHEC), the ...
National Ice Skating Association of Great Britain: (from the article "figure skating") The National Ice Skating Association of Great Britain (NISA) governs eligible skating in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1879, the association organizes tests for skaters and oversees competitions for figure ...
National Ignition Facility: (from the article "fusion reactor") As a result of such progress, the National Ignition Facility, a laser fusion experiment that will achieve ignition, has been constructed in the United States. However, this facility, also located ...
National Imagery and Mapping Agency: (from the article "intelligence") ...and importance have grown with advances in surveillance technology. Its programs are perhaps the most expensive-and useful-sources of intelligence available to the U.S. government. The National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
national income: (from the article "multiplier") in economics, numerical coefficient showing the effect of a change in total national investment on the amount of total national income. It equals the ratio of the change in total ...
national income accounting: a set of principles and methods used to measure the income and production of a country. There are basically two ways of measuring national economic activity: as the money value ... [5 Related Articles]
National Independent Moving Picture Alliance: (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...early 1909) and exhibitors (estimated at 2,000 to 2,500); and in January 1909 they formed their own trade association, the Independent Film Protective Association-reorganized that fall as the National Independent ...
National Indian Foundation: (from the article "South America") ...toward improving the conditions of these groups. In Brazil, for example, institutions such as the Protective Service for the Indians (Servico de Protecao do Indio) and the National Indian Foundation ...
National Industrial Institute: (from the article "Spain") ...intervention through highly protective tariffs, currency regulation, marketing boards for agriculture, and import controls. There was also a high degree of government ownership, realized through the National Industrial Institute (INI), ...
National Industrial Recovery Act: (from the article "organized labour") ...labour movement most required from the state: protection of the rights of workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining. These rights were asserted in principle under Section 7(a) of ...
National Institute for Ancient Drama: (from the article "Italy") ...activity in Italy are the Italian Theatre Board (Ente Teatrale Italiano; ETI), the Institute for Italian Drama (Istituto Dramma Italiano; IDI), concerned with promoting Italian repertory, and the National Institute ...
National Institute for Space Research: (from the article "Amazon River") ...the early 21st century, advanced satellite-imagery technology was allowing researchers to match the river's dimensions even more precisely. In 2007 an expedition that included members of Brazil's National Institute for ...
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: (from the article "Bird Flu-The Next Human Pandemic?") ...that two popular antiviral drugs, amantadine (Symmetrel) and rimantadine (Flumadine), do not work against H5N1. Hopes are pinned on two others, oseltamavir (Tamiflu) and zanamavir (Relenza). The National Institute of ...
National Institute of Culture and History: (from the article "Belize") Despite the civil unrest, some notable cultural gains were witnessed in Belize in 2005. Aided by support from volunteers and the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), several groups ...
National Institute of Fine Arts: (from the article "Mexico") ...throughout the country, including the street dramas and dances that accompany local fiestas. To encourage and help disseminate Mexican art in all its forms, the federal government sponsors the National ...
National Institute of Mental Health: (from the article "mental hygiene") In 1946 the passage of the National Mental Health Act in the United States made possible the creation of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 1949 within what ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology: (from the article "United States Naval Observatory") in Washington, D.C., an official source, with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; formerly the National Bureau of Standards), for standard time in the United States. The ...
National Institute of Statistics and Censuses: (from the article "Argentina") ...with GDP increasing by 8%. Optimism regarding the growth rate was tempered by mounting inflationary pressures, however. In January the Kirchner government intervened in the operation of the National Institute ...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: (from the article "alcohol consumption") ...from academic and scientific sources. Among major efforts in the United States to bring a scientific orientation to bear on the consideration of alcohol problems has been the founding of ...
National Institutes of Health: agency of the United States government that conducts and supports biomedical research into the causes, cure, and prevention of disease. The NIH is an agency of the Public Health Service ... [5 Related Articles]
National Insurance Act: (from the article "Lloyd George, David") ...Germany (1908), where he studied the Bismarckian scheme of insurance benefits, Lloyd George decided to introduce health and unemployment insurance on a similar basis in Britain. This he did in ...
National Insurance Fund: (from the article "United Kingdom") ...average earnings. Employers collect the contribution, and there is also an employer contribution. Separate arrangements exist for the self-employed. The revenue from contributions goes into the National Insurance Fund.
National Intelligence Agency: (from the article "Indonesia") ...human rights activist Munir Said Thalib on a Garuda (the national airline) flight to The Netherlands. After a sluggish start, police investigators charged a Garuda pilot, who was also a ...
National Intelligence Estimate: (from the article "United States") ...a unanimous resolution tightening international economic sanctions in March-again, with few ascertainable results. In early December U.S. intelligence agencies released a surprise consensus National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) declaring with "high ...
National Intelligence Service: (from the article "intelligence") ...martial law in the 1980s. In 1994 legislative oversight of the agency was strengthened, and in the following year it moved to a new headquarters complex under new leadership. The ...
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association: (from the article "rodeo") ...renamed the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA) in 1945 and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1975. Its rules became accepted by most rodeos. Amateur rodeo grew in popularity, and ...
national interest: (from the article "international relations") Although there are many variations of realism, all of them make use of the core concepts of national interest and the struggle for power. According to realism, states exist within ...
National Intergroup, Inc.: American holding company established in 1983 to facilitate the diversification of National Steel Corporation. Formerly headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., NII moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1991, and National Steel moved ...
national investment: (from the article "multiplier") in economics, numerical coefficient showing the effect of a change in total national investment on the amount of total national income. It equals the ratio of the change in total ...
National Invitation Tournament: collegiate basketball competition initiated in the United States in 1938 by New York City basketball writers and held annually since then in Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the ... [2 Related Articles]
National Iranian Oil Company: (from the article "Iran") ...is unquestionably Iran's single most important economic activity and the most valuable in terms of revenue, although natural gas production is increasingly important. The government-operated National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) ...
National Islamic Front: (from the article "Sudan, The") The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in Nairobi on Jan. 9, 2005, by the National Islamic Front (NIF) government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) was greeted with widespread ...
National Kidney Foundation: (from the article "Singapore") A second controversy erupted when a libel suit brought by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-Singapore's most successful charity in terms of fund-raising-against the Straits Times newspaper went to court in ...
National Labor Relations Board: independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act (also called the Wagner Act). The act was amended in 1947 through the ... [8 Related Articles]
National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Company: (from the article "North Chicago") ...until the establishment of a wire manufacturing plant in 1891. Other industries soon followed. A strike at a plant in 1937 led to a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling in ...
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation: (from the article "Hughes, Charles Evans") ...be considered constitutional, and in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hughes attacked Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the judiciary. On April 12, 1937, Hughes delivered the opinion in National ...
National Labor Union: in U.S. history, a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining. [1 Related Articles]
National Laboratory for High Energy Physics: (from the article "particle accelerator") ...storage rings are sometimes used, in particular if the electrons and positrons are to have different energies. In the PEP-II storage rings at Stanford University and in the KEK-B facility ...
national lands: (from the article "France") ...property-about 10 percent of the land in France-"at the disposition of the nation." This property was designated as biens nationaux, or national lands. The government then issued ...
National League: oldest existing major-league professional baseball organization in the United States. The league began play in 1876 as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, replacing the failed National Association of ... [7 Related Articles]
National League for Democracy: (from the article "Myanmar") ...be vocal critics of the junta and renewed a range of sanctions already in place. Washington led international efforts to force Myanmar to end human rights violations and release the ...
National League for Nursing: (from the article "Nutting, Mary Adelaide") ...L. Dock). She was an early member of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada (later the National League for Nursing ...
National Lending Library for Science and Technology: (from the article "British Library") ...225,000 volumes were destroyed at the British Museum, and tens of thousands of newspapers were burned at Colindale. Repairs to damaged buildings were carried out in the 1950s and '60s. ...
National Liberal Federation: (from the article "Gladstone, William Ewart") He had kept his Midlothian seat, unopposed, and carried with him into the new Parliament a personal following 190 strong, supported by the National Liberal Federation, the most powerful political ...
National Liberal Party: (from the article "Denmark") ...the liberal German-speaking population in Schleswig opposed autocratic rule and demanded a free constitution as well as affiliation with Holstein and the German Confederation, the emerging Danish National Liberal movement ...
National Liberal Party: (from the article "Estonia") In January 1905 the revolution that started in Russia spread immediately to Estonia. Jaan Tonisson founded a National Liberal Party and organized its first congress in Tallinn on November 27. ...
National Liberal Party: political party that was active first in Prussia and the North German Confederation from 1867, then in Germany in 1871-1918. With largely middle-class support, the National Liberals hoped to make ... [5 Related Articles]
National Liberation Army: (from the article "National Liberation Front") During the Algerian war for independence, the National Liberation Army (Armee de Liberation Nationale [ALN]), under the command of Col. Houari Boumedienne, acted as the military arm of the FLN. ...
National Liberation Army: (from the article "Colombia") In June 2004 the government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), a much-smaller left-wing guerrilla group, agreed to a cease-fire in order to enter into peace talks. A similar effort ...
National Liberation Army of Iran: (from the article "Iran") Most Iranian dissident groups in exile gradually shed their divergent views and agreed that they should work for a democratic political order in Iran. One remaining exception was the National ...
National Liberation Committee: (from the article "World War II") ...National Army), which was loyal to the British-backed government in exile. The Polish question, moreover, was still unresolved, and in July the Soviets established, at Lublin, a Committee of National ...
National Liberation Forces: (from the article "Burundi") ...between the power-sharing government of Burundi and the last remaining rebel group were reversed in 2007. Following the winding down at year's end 2006 of UN peacekeeping operations in Burundi, ...
National Liberation Front: the only constitutionally legal party in Algeria from 1962 to 1989. The party was a continuation of the revolutionary body that directed the Algerian war of independence against France (1954-62). [12 Related Articles]
National Liberation Front: Vietnamese political organization formed on Dec. 20, 1960, to effect the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of North and South Vietnam. An overtly communist party was ... [8 Related Articles]
National Liberation Front: (from the article "Aden") ...however, Aden became the focus of a struggle between two rival nationalist organizations, the Egyptian-supported Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) and the Marxist-oriented National Liberation Front ...
national liberation movement: (from the article "war") ...the theory failed to analyze adequately the situation in the Soviet Union and in the socialist camp. Even in communist countries, nationalism seems to have proved more powerful than socialism: ...
National Liberation Party: (from the article "Costa Rica") Mayoral elections, traditionally conducted at the same time as legislative elections, were held months after the national elections. In December 2006 Arias's ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) scored a major ...
National Liberation, Committee of: (from the article "Italy") ...included roughly 20,000 partisans, and both Socialists and Liberals had significant armed bands in some areas. Partisans of different political persuasions normally worked together in local Committees of National Liberation ...
national library: (from the article "library") In most countries there is a national or state library or a group of libraries maintained by national resources, usually bearing responsibility for publishing a national bibliography and for maintaining ...
National Library of Australia: (from the article "library") ...rich collections-notably of manuscripts from the Austrian monasteries and from the library of Matthias I Corvinus, dispersed after the capture of his capital, Buda, by the Turks in 1526. The ...
National Library of China: (from the article "Beijing") The Beijing Library, which holds the collections of the National Library of China, is located in the southern Haidian district, just west of the zoo. The library inherited books and ...
National Library of India: (from the article "library") ...four million volumes. Based on the collections of the former Imperial Library (1872), it is organized like the U.S. Library of Congress and publishes a computer-generated national bibliography. The National ...
National Library of Medicine: (from the article "Billings, John Shaw") ...Washington, D.C. (1864-95), Billings developed the library later known as the Army Medical Library. Under successive directors it grew into the Surgeon General's Library and ultimately the National Library of ...
National Library of Wales: (from the article "Wales") The National Library of Wales (1907) at Aberystwyth, like the British Library, receives copies of virtually all books published in the United Kingdom. It is also the main Welsh reference ...
National Marine Fisheries Service: (from the article "conservation") ...to the biodiversity of the world's oceans, and contemporary information published for fisheries in the United States can serve as an example of the magnitude of the problem. Congress requires ...
National Maritime Museum: national museum concerned with the maritime history of Great Britain. It is situated near the River Thames in Greenwich Park, Greenwich, southeast London. [2 Related Articles]
National Military Council: (from the article "Suriname") ...refusal to sanction trade union activity within the armed forces, a group of noncommissioned army officers seized control of the government. The coup was welcomed by most of the population. ...
National Military Establishment Act of 1947: (from the article "international relations") ...July, Kennan, signing himself "X," educated the public on "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" and outlined the strategy of containment in the journal Foreign Affairs. The National Military Establishment Act ...
National Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda: (from the article "Goebbels, Joseph") After the Nazis seized power, Goebbels took control of the national propaganda machinery. A National Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was created for him, and he became president of ...
National Missile Defense system: (from the article "Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty") ...exchange. During the course of the 1990s, attention turned to the risk of small-scale missile attacks from so-called "rogue" states, such as North Korea or Iraq. With this in mind, ...
national monument: in the United States, any of numerous areas reserved by act of Congress or presidential proclamation for the protection of objects or places of historical, prehistoric, or scientific interest. They ...
National Movement: (from the article "Spain") ...by his control of the armed forces and by his ability to play off the groups that supported him, in particular the Falange, the monarchists, and the church. Ultimately, the ...
National Movement for Simeon II: (from the article "Saxecoburggotski, Simeon") In 1996 Simeon visited Bulgaria and most of the royal property was later returned to him. In April 2001 he announced the formation of the National Movement for Simeon II, ...
National Movement for Society and Development: (from the article "Niger") Niger held municipal elections on July 24, 2004, with voters choosing 3,747 candidates to serve four-year terms on 265 rural and urban local councils. Pres. Mamadou Tandja, leader of the ...
National Municipal League: (from the article "United States") A movement already begun, to wrest control of city governments from corrupt political machines, was given tremendous impetus by the panic of 1893. The National Municipal League, organized in 1894, ...
national museum: (from the article "museum, operation of") The level of state control varies from country to country. In France, for instance, the state has traditionally exercised greater control over museums. A number of the national museums in ...
National Museum: (from the article "museums, history of") ...of the National Museum. The origins of the Indian Museum in Calcutta were similar, based on the collections of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which commenced in 1784. In South ...
National Museum: (from the article "Colombia") ...the product of extraordinarily skilled craftsmen, whereas the Bogota Museum of Colonial Art has a rich collection of criollo (Creole) religious sculpture and painting. The National Museum ...
National Museum: (from the article "Italy") Italy's museums contain some of the most important collections of artifacts from ancient civilizations. The permanent collection in the National Museum in Taranto provides one of the most important insights ...
National Museum: museum in Lima, Peru, containing artifacts that offer an overview of pre-Hispanic human history in Peru. It constitutes an archaeological record spanning the period from 14,000 BC to AD 1532.
National Museum: (from the article "Damascus") ...city's heritage with contemporary developments. The prestigious Arabic Language Academy of Damascus (1919) is a bastion of Arabic language, working both to preserve and modernize the language. The National Museum, ...