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| x Alumni association |
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The Association of Former Students |
An alumni association is an association of graduates (alumni) or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities...
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| The University of Houston Alumni Association | |||
| Gakushi-kai | |||
| Ruskin Fellowship | |||
| x Benefit society |
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A benefit society or mutual aid society is an organization or voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. Such organizations may be formally organized with charters and established...
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| x Booster club |
A booster club is an organization that is formed to support (e.g. coordinate events, contribute money, etc.) an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. The...
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| x Non-governmental organization | Manav Sadhna |
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government. The term originated from the United Nations (UN), and is normally used to refer...
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| Jordan River Foundation | |||
| Yayasan Kerti Praja | |||
| Rescue Foundation | |||
| Realizing Rights | |||
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| x GONGO |
A government organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) is a non-governmental organization that may have been set up by a government to look like an NGO in order to qualify for outside aid or mitigate specific issues related to in-country work...
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| x Charitable organization |
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One Laptop per Child |
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common...
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| UNICEF Ireland | |||
| Grassroot Soccer | |||
| Children's Legal Centre | |||
| Bullying UK | |||
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| x Club |
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and...
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| x Learned society |
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as...
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| Royal Geographical Society | |||
| British Computer Society | |||
| Royal Statistical Society | |||
| London Mathematical Society | |||
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| x Professional body | National Education Association |
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession,...
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| Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations | |||
| American Congress on Surveying and Mapping | |||
| American Association for Women Radiologists | |||
| Public Affairs Council | |||
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| x Bar association |
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American Bar Association |
A bar association is a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases,...
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| National Lawyers Guild | |||
| Bar council | |||
| Faculty of Advocates | |||
| Order of Attorneys of Brazil | |||
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| x Fan club |
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Dogbert's New Ruling Class |
A fan club is a group that is dedicated to a well-known person, group, idea (such as history) or sometimes even an inanimate object (such as a famous building). Most fan clubs are run by fans who devote considerable time and resources to supporting...
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| Outside The Nine | |||
| TVE Crocodiles e. V. | |||
| Kiss Army | |||
| Starfleet Command | |||
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| x Think tank | Hansard Society |
A think tank (or policy institute) is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology issues and in the creative and cultural field. Most think tanks...
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| Citizens Against Government Waste | |||
| Discovery Institute | |||
| Fabian Society | |||
| Freedom House | |||
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| x Honor society |
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Phi Beta Kappa Society |
In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among peers. Numerous societies recognize various fields and circumstances. The Order of the Arrow, for example, is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts...
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| Phi Theta Kappa | |||
| Golden Key International Honour Society | |||
| Tau Beta Pi | |||
| Cap and Skull | |||
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| x Gentlemen's club |
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Alpine Club |
A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for British upper class men in the 18th century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Today,...
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| Yale Club of New York City | |||
| Travellers Club | |||
| White's | |||
| Boodle's | |||
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| x User Group | Association of C and C++ Users |
A set of people who have similar interests, goals, or concerns.
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| x Non-profit organization | Lance Armstrong Foundation |
A nonprofit organization (NPO) is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals rather than to distribute them as profit or dividends. States in the United States defer to the IRS designation conferred under United States Internal...
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| Rupert's Kids | |||
| Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History e.V. | |||
| Haiku Society of America | |||
| Rock the Vote | |||
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| x Political party |
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Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns and educational...
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| Republican Party of Florida | |||
| Pirate Party International | |||
| Pirate Party Germany | |||
| Piratenpartei Baden-Württemberg | |||
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| x Gang |
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A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in the community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or...
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| x Community association | Cardinal Creek Community Association |
A community association is a nongovernmental association of participating members of a community, such as a neighborhood, village, condominium, cooperative, or group of homeowners or property owners in a delineated geographic area. Participation may...
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| Carlsbad Springs Community Association | |||
| Convent Glen South Community Association | |||
| Cumberland Village Community Association | |||
| Fallingbrook Community Association | |||
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| x Joint venture | A&E Television Networks |
A joint venture (JV) is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets....
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| OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network | |||
| Hulu | |||
| NBCUniversal | |||
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment | |||
| x Conservation Joint Venture | Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture | ||
| Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture | |||
| Atlantic Coast Joint Venture | |||
| Central Hardwoods Joint Venture | |||
| Central Valley Joint Venture | |||
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| x Livery Company | Worshipful Company of Fishmongers |
The Livery Companies are 108 trade associations in the City of London, almost all of which are known as the "Worshipful Company of" the relevant trade, craft or profession. The medieval Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible...
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| Worshipful Company of Musicians | |||
| Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths | |||
| Worshipful Company of Skinners | |||
| Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors | |||
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| x Comedy club |
A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts. The term ...
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| x 501(c) | Craft in America Inc. |
Colloquially, a 501(c) organization, also referred to as a 501(c), is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Section 501(c) of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)) provides that 28 types of nonprofit organizations are...
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| x 501(c)(3) | The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis |
United States Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) provides for tax-exempt status for organizations that are commonly referred to as Charitable Organizations. The code states that none of a 501(c)(3) organizations' earnings may inure to any private...
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| The Center for Emerging Media | |||
| Long Now Foundation | |||
| Manav Sadhna | |||
| Star of Hope | |||
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| x Standards organization | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing,...
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| Council of Europe | |||
| International Organization for Standardization | |||
| x Transport standards organisations | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
Transportation systems are inherently distributed systems with complex information requirements. Robust modern standards for transportation data are important for the safe and efficient operation of transportation systems. A wide variety of...
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| x Intergovernmental | Shanghai Cooperation Organization | ||
| x Hispanic |
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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers |
Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico; Portuguese: hispânico, hispano ) is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or to ancient Hispania, which comprised Andorra, Portugal, Spain and the territory of Gibraltar. Today, organizations in the...
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| National Society for Hispanic Professionals | |||
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute | |||
| Hispanas Organized for Political Equality | |||
| Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association | |||
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| x Youth Organization | North American Federation of Temple Youth | ||
| Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California | |||
| Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations | |||
| United Vietnamese Student Associations of Northern California | |||
| Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of the Midwest | |||
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| x Child advocacy | Children's Defense Fund |
Child advocacy refers to a range of individuals, professionals and advocacy organizations who promote the optimal development of children. An individual or organization engaging in advocacy typically seeks to protect children's rights which may be...
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| Abebech Gobena Yehsanat Kebkabena Limat Dirijit | |||
| x Research |
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Children's Defense Fund |
Research is the systematic investigation into existing or new knowledge. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project...
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| Information Sciences Institute | |||
| Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents | |||
| Stanford Earthquake Seismology Group | |||
| Stanford Racing Team | |||
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| x Eingetragener Verein | Jung Israel |
Eingetragener Verein (e. V.) ("registered association") is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany and Austria. While any group may be called a Verein, registration as eingetragener Verein holds many legal benefits because a...
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| TVE Crocodiles e. V. | |||
| EuroThrowers | |||
| x Head Wing Post Democratic Political Party | Nepal Pariwar Dal | ||
| x Political organisation | World Zionist Organization |
A political organization is an organization that involves itself in the political process. In a broader sense, a political organization can also be viewed as a political system, as long as it includes the entire system and body of government. It...
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| Australian Christian Lobby | |||
| Republicans for Obama | |||
| Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS) | |||
| x Student society | Kadimah |
A student society or student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students. They are often affiliated with a university's students' union. Student societies often aim to...
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| SoSalsa! | |||
| x Colonisation society | Ahawas Zion | ||
| Esra - Sammelbüchse für Palestina | |||
| x Housing society | Ahuzat Bayit | ||
| x Sports club |
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Triathlon Verein Berlin |
A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on...
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| x Art group |
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Visual Arts Brampton |
An art group refers to an association of artists who may work (or live) communally, for the purpose of facilitating the creation of art, either that belonging to the individual, or the collective.
Art groups typically were formed by established...
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| x National trade union center |
A national trade union center is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a single country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. When there is more than one national center, it is...
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| x Homeowners association |
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A homeowner association is a corporation formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling of homes and lots in a residential subdivision. It grants the developer privileged voting rights in governing the...
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| x Voluntary association | New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association |
A voluntary association or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, unincorporated association, or just an association) is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body (or organization) to accomplish...
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| x Judenrat |
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Warsaw Jewish Council |
Judenräte (singular Judenrat; German for "Jewish council") were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory.
It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established...
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| x Foundation | Gollwitz Manor House |
A foundation (also a charitable foundation) is a legal categorization of nonprofit organizations that will typically either donate funds and support to other organizations, or provide the source of funding for its own charitable purposes.
This type...
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| Apache Software Foundation | |||
| Siebel Foundation | |||
| Rockefeller Foundation | |||
| Nobel Foundation | |||
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| x Baptist |
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Baptist Union of New Zealand |
Baptists are Christians who comprise a group of denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and that it must be done by...
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| x Manuscript Repository | American Philosophical Society |
Institution that collects personal and family papers of enduring historical value.
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| Historical Society of Pennsylvania | |||
| x Archive |
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American Philosophical Society |
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function...
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| National Archives and Records Administration | |||
| Drexel University Archives and Special Collections | |||
| Oddball Film + Video | |||
| Rockefeller Archive Center | |||
| x Special collections | Library Company of Philadelphia |
In library science, special collections (often abbreviated to Spec. Coll. or S.C.) is the name applied to a specific repository or department, usually within a library, which stores materials of a "special" nature, including rare books, archives,...
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| American Philosophical Society | |||
| x Research library |
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Library Company of Philadelphia |
A research library is a library which contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects (Young, 1983; p.188). A research library will generally include primary sources as well as secondary sources. Large university libraries are...
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| American Philosophical Society | |||
| Stanford University Libraries | |||
| x NHS Strategic Health Authority |
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NHS North East |
NHS strategic health authorities (SHA) are part of the structure of the National Health Service in England. Each SHA is responsible for enacting the directives and implementing fiscal policy as dictated by the Department of Health at a regional...
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| NHS North West | |||
| NHS Yorkshire and the Humber | |||
| NHS East Midlands | |||
| NHS West Midlands | |||
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| x NHS primary care trust |
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County Durham Primary Care Trust |
An NHS primary care trust (PCT) is a type of NHS trust, part of the National Health Service in England. PCTs commission primary, community and secondary care from providers. Until 31 May 2011 they also provided community services directly....
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| Darlington Primary Care Trust | |||
| Gateshead Primary Care Trust | |||
| Hartlepool Primary Care Trust | |||
| Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust | |||
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| x NHS care trust | Northumberland Care Trust |
An NHS care trust, is a type of NHS trust in the English National Health Service and NHS Wales that provides both health and social care. They may carry out a range of services, including social care, mental health services or primary care services....
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| x Charitable trust | Scott Trust |
A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes, and is a more specific term than "charitable organization".
In India, trusts set up for the social causes and approved by the Income Tax Department, get not only...
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| William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust | |||
| The Lion Foundation | |||
| x Coalition | Coalition |
A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A...
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| CDU/CSU | |||
| International Gorilla Conservation Programme | |||
| Red-Green Coalition | |||
| Red-Greens | |||
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| x Military organization |
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35th Fighter Wing |
Military organization is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as 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 that are...
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| 1st Brigade | |||
| 1st Mechanised Brigade | |||
| 1st Independent Parachute Brigade | |||
| The Sacred Band of Stepsons | |||
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| x Military unit | 1st Battalion |
A military unit is an organization within an armed force. It may consist of any number of soldier, ships, vehicles, or aircraft. Armies, navies, and air forces, are organized hierarchically into groups of various sizes for functional, tactical and...
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| Sacred Band of Thebes commanded by Gorgidas | |||
| Sacred Band | |||
| Sacred Band of Thebes commanded by Pelopidas | |||
| Sacred Band of Thebes | |||
| x Literature |
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Poe Studies Association |
Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work, and is not confined to published sources (although, under some circumstances, unpublished sources can also be exempt). The word literature literally means "things made...
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| Counterbalance: Honorable Journalists, Writers, Articles | |||
| 100 Thousand Poets for Change | |||
| PEN American Center | |||
| x Employers' organization | VNO-NCW |
An employers' organization, employers' association or employers' federation is an association of employers. A trade union, which organizes employees is the opposite of an employers' organization. The role and position of an employers' organization...
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| x Literary society | Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America |
A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of literature or a specific writer. Modern literary societies typically promote research about their...
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| Creative Thinkers International | |||
