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| Ankh-Morpork City Guild | Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild | |||
| Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild | ||||
| Ankh-Morpork Beggars' Guild | ||||
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Fictional Setting | Gryffindor 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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| Hufflepuff House | ||||
| Military organization | Ender's Jeesh |
The armed forces of a state are its government-sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations used to further the objectives of the state. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body. In some countries...
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| United States Army | ||||
| Kingsguard | ||||
| Night’s Watch | ||||
| Stargate Command | ||||
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| Archive |
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Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths |
An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.
Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the course of an individual...
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| Jedi Archives | ||||
| Vatican Secret Archives | ||||
| Civil registry | Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths |
In many countries, vital events (eg. birth, death, and marriage) are required by law to be formally recorded in registers maintained by government officials.
In the United Kingdom, mandatory civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths was...
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| Monastic | Jedi | |||
| Knight |
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Profession | Jedi |
Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentry. Elsewhere, the Spanish Caballero (related to "chivalry"), the Italian Cavaliere, the...
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| Sisterhood | Muse | |||
| Federation |
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United Federation of Planets |
A federation (Latin: foedus, 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 typically...
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| Vatican Secret Archives | Organization in fiction |
The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. These archive also contain the state paper, correspondence, papal...
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| Federal republic | Form of Government | United Federations |
A federal republic is a federation of state with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain all political sovereignty that they do not yield to the federation. Usage of the term...
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| Corporation |
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Company type | Tyrell Corporation |
A corporation is a legal personality, usually used to conduct business. Corporations exist as a product of corporate law, and their rules balance the interests of the shareholder that invest their capital and the employees who contribute their labor...
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| Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | ||||
| Noble House | House Lannister |
A clan-based association of nobles.
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| House Arryn | ||||
| House Harkonnen | ||||
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| 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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| 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 a commercial or industrial...
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| Taggart Transcontinental | ||||
| Village |
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Type/domain equivalent topic | Hidden Leaf Village |
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban neighbourhood, such as the West Village in...
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| Organized crime | The Girls of Old Town |
Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminal, 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 of .....
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| 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 a specific ideology and vision, but may also represent a...
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| 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.
In pre-industrial cities, craftsmen tended to form associations based on their trades, confraternities of textile workers,...
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| 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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