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  List of reference tables
This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_reference_tables.html   (1037 words)

  
  Lists of people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of people known as the father or mother of something
List of eponyms or names derived from people
Lists of people by belief, religious belief or philosophy
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people   (421 words)

  
 Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds.
Thus, the toponym of Hellespont was explained by Greek poets as being named after Helle, daughter of Athamas, who drowned here as she crossed it with her brother Phrixus on a flying golden ram.
List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toponymy   (394 words)

  
 GNU/Mailman Administrator's Manual
This is the name by which the list will be referred to in all automatically generated messages as well as on the listing of lists available on the server.
Because list membership is checked easily through the web, the list manager may not feel that it is necessary to know of all of the comings and goings of list members (especially on large lists with a lot of turnover).
List members: this is the traditional setting for most lists, allowing participants to see who the other people on the list are but blocking view to the general public.
lists.k12tn.net /mailmanadmin.html   (8545 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - Mexican Electoral Wrap-up: The Country Begins Its Precarious Political Future
In the days after the election, the IFE proved that it could not — or was unwilling to — address the concerns raised by the PRD campaign, even if the gravity of some of the latter’s complaints may have been exaggerated.
Furthermore, the PRD will no longer be a political afterthought, and it is unlikely to be cheerfully willing to deal with a president whose positions are almost antithetical to the party’s core values, and whose commitment to the earnest incorporation of a plurality of new ideas is very questionable.
López Obrador, after being named “legitimate president” by a rump national convention on September 16 is likely to enter a new phase of his political life, perhaps consisting of attempts to organize social mobilizations to oppose certain government initiatives, while promoting an ongoing alternative agenda.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/4189/1/213   (3590 words)

  
 Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - Wortgeschichte & Wortgeschichten
In Planung 51
Baden: after the city of Baden-Baden, formerly Baden, the name was doubled to distinguish it from the state.
Hesse - after the tribe of the Chatti.
Holstein is derived from a Saxon subtribe named Holcetae.
www.etymologie.info /~e/_n/in-plan51.html   (2573 words)

  
 [PRISONACT] Building a Political Prisoner Support Movement
Parole is almost uniformly impossible—even after decades of incarceration and despite their having met all the requirements for release.
Demanding amnesty Most governments routinely release political prisoners every decade or so, and political internees are often incarcerated together or allowed increased family visits, in tacit recognition of the political nature of their "crimes." Not so in the US, where amnesty is a forbidden term.
People are growing old in an environment known for its malign neglect and medical malfeasance, with the government consistently refusing parole because of the supposed seriousness of the offense for which political prisoners are incarcerated.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2006-June/010821.html   (1676 words)

  
 Lists of people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This list does not include fictional characters, e.g., people like Arthur the Knight are included but King Arthur is not.
List of people associated with the California gold rush
List of people by nationality, ethnicity, location, etc
www.enlightenweb.net /l/li/lists_of_people.html   (267 words)

  
 INTRODUCTION
Any variant names of the place are listed on successive lines, with the first variant preceded by the symbol UF (used for).
Codes are assigned for the location of individual named entities, including corporate bodies, buildings and structures, roads, waterways, railroads, monuments, camps, parks, gardens, etc. For government agencies, codes are assigned for the jurisdictions the agencies serve.
In this case, the code for the annexed entity is discontinued, and the annexed entity is assigned the code for the annexing entity.
www.loc.gov /marc/geoareas/gacshome.html   (2069 words)

  
 List of reference tables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_reference_tables   (1028 words)

  
 list of political entities named after people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There are a number of countries and administrative divisions named after famous people.
For a general etymological listing of place names see Placename etymology.
For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /list_of_political_entities_named_after_people.html   (404 words)

  
 Eponym   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, whose name is thought to be, or has become, synonymsynonymous/ with the name of a particular object or activity.
The Archon of Athens had a yearly charge and each year was named after the elected one (e.g., the year 594 BC was named after Solon).
The eponym gave apparent meaning to the mysterious names of tribes, and sometimes, as in the Sons of Noah, provided a primitive attempt at ethnology too, in the genealogical relationships of eponymous originators.
www.infothis.com /find/Eponym   (403 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of political entities named after people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
List of British place names and their meanings
There are a number of places named after famous people.
Many smaller European towns and cities are named after their founders, often dating back many hundred years.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-political-entities-named-after-people   (853 words)

  
 Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
List of city nicknames (with a separate list of city nicknames in the United States)
List of countries by name, by capital, by government
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
www.asiaiworld.com /wiki-List_of_reference_tables   (831 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
After the death of Stalinist CPUSA leader Hall in 2000, Gorbachev-style "democratic reform communist" activist Sam Webb assumed leadership of the CPUSA.
After several nasty and public battles, the Ventura faction quit the RP in Spring 2000 and the old Perot faction lost control of the party in court to the Buchanan faction in Fall 2000 (and Perot ultimately endorsed Bush for President in 2000).
Marxist political organizer James Harris was the SWP Presidential nominee in 1996 (ballot status in 11 states - 8,500 votes - 0.01%) and 2000 (ballot status in 14 states - 7,378 votes - 9th place - 0.01%).
www.politics1.com /parties.htm   (9501 words)

  
 List of Social and Political Reforms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Name for a type of budgeting process in which last year's expenditures are used as a baseline in developing next year's allocations.
A political process that allows voters to remove an elected official before the end of their term by garnering a requisite number of votes and holding a special election; valid in federal government and in only 15 states.
Lists of endorsements for candidates and ballot propositions sent out by political committees to influence voters often under deceptive organization names to mislead voters into thinking the group represents official party organizations.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/reform.htm   (10712 words)

  
 Balkinization
There is a name for such a political system, and it isn't a "Republican Form of Government" (unless, of course, one takes the term "Republican" to refer to the political party that has made a travesty of that honorable term).
After that, there was general agreement that the law for prosecuting misconduct among contractors required careful review in light of the very troubling lack of follow-up in prosecutions that had been investigated in the field and referred for prosecution.
Whether in the name of some ideology, or some image of national purity or dominance, or in the name of religion, or simply to plunder, states have time and again massacred their own people, or conscripted their own people and flung them at others to kill and be killed.
balkin.blogspot.com   (14579 words)

  
 Lists of people
By name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
List of eponymous laws - List of people with laws and adages named after them
List of people predominantly seen wearing dark glasses
www.mcfly.org /wik/Lists_of_people   (468 words)

  
 iTech - Mailman List Manager
This document is intended for persons who have the responsibility of managing mail lists that are being run by the GNU Mailman mail list manager.
Manager's Quick Reference is available, in operation we have found that it solves about 90% of list owners' problems.
Mailman allows a list manager to add people for their mail list through this screen, but the method is not intuitively named.
www.usm.edu /itech/tiu/mailman/listmanagers.php   (8442 words)

  
 The Ethically Incoherent NCAA
The entire issue is an example of interest-group power-mongers pressuring vulnerable bureaucracies like the NCAA to adopt their objectives, injuring others in the process.
Teams are named after entities that have positive attributes associated with them, and having a team named after you, whether you are a predator, a bird, a profession, a nationality, or a sock is a compliment of the highest order.
But some clever tactician for a Native American political group managed to launch the idea that only in the case of Native Americans, such team names are offensive.
www.ethicsscoreboard.com /list/ncaa.html   (722 words)

  
 GNU Free Documentation License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document whose title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language.
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Only one passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through arrangements made by) any one entity.
www.gnu.org /licenses/fdl.html   (2814 words)

  
 List of reference tables - Gurupedia
List of mountains on Io List of craters on Mars
List of windmills: UK List of watermills: UK List of the world's tallest structures
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council and House of Lords cases
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_reference_tables.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Committee on House Administration, Minority Office :: Committee Activity :: H.R. 513 the 527 Reform Act of 2005
527s are named after a section of the Internal Revenue Code that specifies certain political organizations as tax exempt for tax exempt purposes under the Federal law.
Speaker, I would like to put in the RECORD a statement by the National Review magazine, which is a conservative magazine, and the National Review states, One of the biggest myths about this bill is that it would level the playing field ending the ability of the wealthy to fund propaganda.
Of particular concern is that the fundamental rights and the needs of all Americans including the voices of women, the elderly, and the poor not be left out of the political dialogue just because of the perceived notion that a few millionaires are funding all 527s.
www.house.gov /apps/list/hearing/ha31_democrats/fs_20060404_527.html   (905 words)

  
 List of reference tables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
List of abbeys and priories: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
List of songs in which the title pretty much sums up the entire point of the whole song
www.enlightenweb.net /l/li/list_of_reference_tables.html   (1022 words)

  
 lists of people
Lists of citizens of nations on the American continents.
Lists of people - Enyclopaedia definition Lists of people
Fully manage and send email to multiple lists of people.
www.fact-library.com /lists_of_people.html   (333 words)

  
 Islamic Groups Named in Hamas Funding Case - June 4, 2007 - The New York Sun
Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.
A court filing by the government last week listed the three prominent groups among about 300 individuals or entities named as co-conspirators.
The secretary-general of the Islamic Society of North America, Muneer Fareed, said his group was surprised to be named in the Texas case.
www.nysun.com /article/55778   (450 words)

  
 Lists of people - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Find lists of people and more at Lycos Search.
Read about lists of people in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
Find lists of people at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer!
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 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Site Map pg 4 > List of philosophica...
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
In a household, clothes hangers are the single one item that you own the most of, yet no one can name even one brand?
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_197.html   (107 words)

  
 Welcome to politicalparadigm.org!
The designation was "based on information from a variety of sources that those entities functioned as part of the MEK and have supported the MEK's acts of terrorism," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in a statement released Friday.
The State Department maintains a list of foreign terrorist organizations that it uses to pressure countries to dissolve.
MEK is listed on the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations, and has been blamed for supporting the U.S. embassy takeover and overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
www.politicalparadigm.org /index.html   (331 words)

  
 Lists of people in TutorGig Encyclopedia
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Books See all 170 results in Lists of people...
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 List Of Famous People Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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