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| x name | x image | x Organizations | x article |
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| x Ankh-Morpork City Guild | Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild | ||
| Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild | |||
| Ankh-Morpork Beggars' Guild | |||
| x Hogwarts houses |
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Hufflepuff House |
In the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. The houses compete throughout...
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| Slytherin House | |||
| Ravenclaw House | |||
| Gryffindor House | |||
| x Military organization |
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Ender's Jeesh |
A military organization is a way of structuring the armed forces of a state as a need to offer military capability required by the national defence policy. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nation's armed forces. Armed forces...
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| United States Army | |||
| Kingsguard | |||
| Night’s Watch | |||
| Stargate Command | |||
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| x Archive |
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Vatican Secret Archives |
An archive is a collection of historical records, and the location in which the collection is kept. Archives contain records (primary source documents) which have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime.
The archives...
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| Jedi Archives | |||
| Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths | |||
| x Civil registry | Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths |
A civil registry or population registry is a repository or database maintained by a state listing vital statistics about all of its citizens and residents. There is a legal requirement to notify the relevant authority of any life event which affects...
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| x Monastic | Jedi | ||
| x Knight |
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Jedi |
A knight is a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe. In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent (viz French chevalier and German Ritter), suggesting a connection to...
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| x Sisterhood | |||
| x Federation |
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United Federation of Planets |
A federation (Latin: foedus, foederis, 'covenant') is a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central ("federal") government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states is...
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| x Federal republic | United Federations |
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain the federation. Usage of the term republic is inconsistent but, as a minimum, it...
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| x Corporation |
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Tyrell Corporation |
A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole (an office held by an individual natural person, which is a legal...
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| Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | |||
| Percy Nilegård AB | |||
| Weyland-Yutani | |||
| x Noble House | House Lannister |
A clan-based association of nobles.
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| House Atreides | |||
| House Stark | |||
| House Arryn | |||
| House Harkonnen | |||
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| x Ministry | Ministry of Truth |
A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister, but usually a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus,...
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| x Company | M & M Enterprises |
Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.
In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a...
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| Taggart Transcontinental | |||
| x Village |
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Hidden Leaf Village |
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in...
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| x Organized crime |
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The Girls of Old Town |
Organized crime or criminal organizations comprise groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. The Organized Crime Control Act (U.S., 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities...
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| x Political party |
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Friends of Global Progress |
A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform...
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| x Guild |
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A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.
The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel and a secret society. They often depended on...
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| x World of Warcraft Guild | Squirrel Mafia |
A guild is an organization of players. There are many motivations and purposes to creating guilds.
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| x Transformers universes |
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Transformers are fictional alien robots of a popular Hasbro toy line and its spin-offs.
In its fictional backstory, the Transformers come from the planet Cybertron and are divided into two factions: the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the...
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| x Law firm |
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Wolfram and Hart |
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service provided by a law firm is to advise clients (individuals or corporations) about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to...
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| x Private investigator |
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Angel Investigations |
A private investigator or private detective (often shortened to PI or private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigations. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for...
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| x Government agency |
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Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense |
A government agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of types of...
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| x Police |
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Green Lantern Corps |
Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force.
The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are...
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| x High school |
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Sannoh Industry Affiliated High School basketball team |
High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular the United Kingdom, Northern America and also Oceania) to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term "high school" originated in Scotland...
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| Kainan University Affiliated High School basketball team | |||
| Shoyo High School basketball team | |||
| Ryonan High School basketball team | |||
| Shohoku High School basketball team | |||
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| x Terrorism |
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Quantum |
Terrorism is a policy or ideology of violence intended to intimidate or cause terror for the purpose of "exerting pressure on decision making by state bodies." The term "terror" is largely used to indicate clandestine, low-intensity violence that...
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| x Law enforcement agency |
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California Bureau of Investigation |
Law enforcement agency (LEA) is either an organisation that enforces the laws of one or more governing bodies, or an entity that actively and directly assists in the enforcement of laws. In doing so, the LEA assists the governing bodies to provide...
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| x Gang |
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Mutant Street Beatniks |
A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word...
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| x Airline |
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Oceanic Airlines |
An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with...
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