The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), is part of the United States National Institutes of Health. It has a database where scientists...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization set up to protect plants, animals and habitats. It was first...

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards. Also called Oscars, the Academy Awards are given to people working in the movie industry...

Transport for London (TfL) is an organisation that runs the public transport network in London. It is held with direct responsibility to the mayor of...

list shows the normal uses of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for sounds used in the English language. AmE, American English AuE, Australian...

a good salary, but that was impossible at that time. Many people fought for a good salary and a good working time. The director of the successful...

Windows tag editor puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3 Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems Sound Juicer — GNOME CD...

Acts. For many years, the British government decided which countries could trade with the colonies, instead of letting the colonies decide for themselves...

artificial-intelligence backed search engine for academic publications developed at the Allen Institute for AI and publicly released in November 2015. Ariana...

A ghost town is a name for a city or town in which no one lives anymore. It can happen because of economical reasons (for instance, a town of gold miners...

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) is a list of species. The list tells for each species how likely it is to become extinct (or if it is already). This...

United Kingdom Programming Picture format 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) Ownership Owner BBC Sister channels BBC One BBC Two BBC Four...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the...

is the standard currency for international markets selling goods such as gold and oil (petrol). When writing, the symbol for the American dollar is the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC main...

The Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater,...

of the river. Deltas are often places that are not good for towns or farms but are very good for birds and other wildlife and fishing. Deltas are often...

gentilic is a word used for people or the inhabitants of a place. The name of a people's language is usually the same as this word, for example, the "English"...

The International Organization for Standardization is an international body dedicated to promoting international standards. Its official languages are...

Fischer for work on sugar and purine syntheses. 1903 - Svante Arrhenius for his electrolytic theory of dissociation. 1904 - Sir William Ramsay for discovering...

members of their movie-making team (called a movie crew). For example, the person who is responsible for the lighting is told by the director what style of lighting...

and data mining. An advertisement (or an "ad" for short) is usually designed by an advertising agency for a sponsor or brand and made public by various...

synonyms, there are two (or more than two) names for the same thing in a scientific classification. For example, the cat has a few scientific names in:...

von Behring, Germany, for making a serum to stop people getting the disease diphtheria 1902 – Ronald Ross, United Kingdom, for work on malaria 1903 –...

by people in the same family. Different cultures have different customs for a person's family name and given name. In English, the family name is always...

The Academy Award for Best Directing (Best Director), usually known as the Best Director Oscar, is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy...

journalism to report the news. They may work on their own ("freelance") or for a newspaper, a radio or television programme. There are different kinds of...

Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by The Beatles. It was released on 4 December 1964. The band started recording the album soon after finishing...

of Merit for Performance by an Actor. Since the beginning the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Actor. Actors are nominated for this award...

people and institutions around the world. These prizes are for the study of science and for world peace. The science prizes include Literature, Science...

phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing down sounds. It was created by the International Phonetic Association...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a part of the United Nations. The purpose of this agency is to protect and...

The King's Privy Council for Canada (KPC; French: Conseil privé du Roi pour le Canada; called the Queen's Privy Council for Canada when there is a queen)...

The Center for Civil Liberties (Ukrainian: Центр Громадянських Свобод, romanized: Tsentr Hromadyansʹkykh Svobod) is a Ukrainian human rights organization...

The List of data references for chemical elements is divided into datasheets that give values for many properties of the elements, together with various...

"For You Blue" is a 1970 song by The Beatles. It is the b-side of The Long and Winding Road. It is a track from the 1970 album Let It Be. This short article...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was the United States Government agency which was primarily responsible for administering civilian...

one of the top three causes of death for young people aged 14–35. It is the second most common cause of death for college students. Every 3 seconds, a...

originated in the Middle Ages, and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window...

homicide. Sometimes, a death caused by someone else may not be a crime, for example killing in self-defense. Though, if the killer could've stopped a...

The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by...

earn. This is called the "terminal degree". There are PhD / DPhil degrees for many different fields. Examples of these include PhDs / DPhils in literature...

living thing stops, including the mind and the senses. The usual signal for death in humans and many other animals is that the heart stops beating and...

Party for Freedom and Democracy, Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (shortened VVD), is a Dutch political party. The People's Party for Freedom...

British Columbia was home to large numbers of indigenous people. These people, for the large part, still live in the province. Because BC has a large amount...

"Excellency" it is usually held by that person for the rest of their life though this is not always the case. For example some countries presidents get the...

named for a Confederate officer and later a congressman, was renamed for the abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Benjamin Palmer School, named for a pro-slavery...

This made recent changes less effective for understanding changes. Instead, editors can select and watch for changes in particular articles, using the...

health care workers. Many doctors specialize in one kind of medical work. For example, pediatrics is the medical specialty about the health of children...

crowded that place is. It is got by dividing the population by the area. For example, France has a population of 60,561,200, and an area of 551,695 square...