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- (from the article "cricket") ...began touring the country, and from 1852, when some of the leading professionals (including John Wisden, who later compiled the first of the famous Wisden almanacs on cricketing) seceded to form the United All-England XI, these two teams monopolized the ...
- United Arab Emirates
- federation of seven emirates along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. [33 Related Articles]
- United Arab Emirates University
- (from the article "United Arab Emirates") ...education is not compulsory. There are a number of fine institutions of higher education in the emirates, and both boys and girls attend public school. Female students far outnumber males at the United Arab Emirates University, which opened at Al-'Ayn ...
- United Arab Emirates, Central Bank of the
- (from the article "United Arab Emirates") The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates was established in 1980, with Dubayy and Abu Zaby each depositing half of their revenues in the institution. The bank also issues the UAE dirham, the emirates' national currency. There are commercial, ...
- United Arab Emirates, flag of the
- national flag consisting of horizontal stripes of green, white, and black and a vertical red stripe at the hoist. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.
- United Arab Emirates, history of
- (from the article "United Arab Emirates") This discussion focuses on the United Arab Emirates since the 19th century. For a treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see Arabia, history of.formationArabia, ...
- United Arab Republic
- political union of Egypt and Syria proclaimed on Feb. 1, 1958, and ratified in nationwide plebiscites. It ended on Sept. 28, 1961, when Syria, following a military coup, declared itself independent of Egypt. Despite the dissolution of the union, Egypt ... [11 Related Articles]
- United Artists Corporation
- major investor in and distributor of independently produced motion pictures in the United States. The corporation was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, the comedy star; Mary Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, the popular film stars; and D.W. Griffith, ... [5 Related Articles]
- United Australia Party
- (UAP; 1931-44), political party formed by a fusion of Nationalist Party and conservative erstwhile Australian Labor Party members, which alone or in coalition with the Country Party controlled the Australian commonwealth government for 10 years. Brought to power in the ... [3 Related Articles]
- United Automobile Workers
- North American industrial union of automotive and other vehicular workers, headquartered in Detroit, Mich., and representing workers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. [7 Related Articles]
- United Bahamian Party
- (from the article "Bahamas, The") ...politics had emerged in 1953, when the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) was formed by Bahamians of African descent to oppose the group in power, who in 1958 responded with a party of their own, the United Bahamian Party (UBP), controlled ...
- United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces
- (from the article "Baptist Federation of Canada") ...Provinces. In 1905-06 this group and Free Baptists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia merged to form the United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces. In the 1960s it was renamed the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces.
- United Belgian States
- (from the article "Vonck, Jean-Francois") ...the insurgents won a victory at Turnhout and gained control of the Austrian Netherlands. Vonck and van der Noot returned to Brussels in December 1789 to form a new but short-lived government, the United Belgian States. Van der Noot then ...
- United Bible Societies
- (from the article "Christianity") Bible societies, including the United Bible Societies (1946), have coordinated and aided the translation work of missionaries in this task for almost 200 years. Wycliffe Bible Translators (1936) concentrated its work among the language groups having the smallest numbers of ...
- United Bowmen of Philadelphia
- (from the article "archery") The first American archery organization was the United Bowmen of Philadelphia, founded in 1828. In the early days the sport was, as in England, a popular upper- and middle-class recreation. In the 1870s many archery clubs sprang up, and in ...
- United Christian Missionary Society
- (from the article "Disciples of Christ") Meanwhile, a number of the agencies had combined in 1920 to form the United Christian Missionary Society. Ten years later most state and national agencies entered Unified Promotion, a cooperative program of fund raising, with voluntarily accepted restraints on independent ...
- United Church of Canada
- church established June 10, 1925, in Toronto, Ont., by the union of the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of Canada. The three churches were each the result of mergers that had taken place within each denomination in Canada in the ... [7 Related Articles]
- United Church of Christ
- Protestant denomination in the United States, formed by the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches. Each was the result of former unions. Negotiations toward union of the two bodies were begun ... [12 Related Articles]
- United Company of Barber Surgeons
- (from the article "surgery") ...surgery was not taught in most universities, and ignorant barbers instead wielded the knife, either on their own responsibility or upon being called into cases by physicians. The organization of the United Company of Barber Surgeons of London in 1540 ...
- United Daughters of the Confederacy
- American women's patriotic society, founded in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 10, 1894, that draws its members from descendants of those who served in the Confederacy's armed forces or government or who gave to either their loyal and substantial private support. ...
- United Democratic Alliance
- (from the article "Zambia") ...March 5 the parliament enacted a new electoral law aimed at making voting more transparent. Also in the month, three opposition parties, excluding the Patriotic Front (PF), formed a coalition, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), to present a more effective ...
- United Democratic Front
- (from the article "South Africa") ...to apartheid by meeting Indian and Coloured grievances while at the same time giving blacks no political rights except in the homelands. In response, more than 500 community groups formed the United Democratic Front, which became closely identified with the ...
- United Democratic Front
- (from the article "Malawi") Nevertheless, the drought heralded a year of problems on other fronts for Pres. Bingu wa Mutharika, whose unpopularity remained undiminished with the United Democratic Front (UDF), from which he had split soon after his election. On February 9 Mutharika claimed ...
- United Democratic Party
- (from the article "Belize") In domestic politics the United Democratic Party (UDP), formed in 1973 and led by Manuel Esquivel, won the general election in 1984, but in 1989 the PUP won the election and Price again became prime minister (as the office was ...
- United Democratic Party
- (from the article "Dependent States") ...record, specifically the $25 million expansion of the island's airport. The Anguilla National Strategic Alliance (two seats) remained the official opposition party. In the Cayman Islands the ruling United Democratic Party (UDP) was voted out of office in the May ...
- United Development Party
- a moderate Islamist political party in Indonesia. [1 Related Articles]
- United Empire Loyalists
- (from the article "Canada") ...independence, and many had resisted it in arms. At the conclusion of hostilities, these loyalists had to make their peace with the new republic, though many went into exile. The refugees, known as United Empire Loyalists, were the object of ...
- United Evangelical Lutheran Church
- church organized in 1896 in Minneapolis, Minn., as the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America by merger of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (the North Church) and the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America (the ...
- United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany
- union of 10 Lutheran territorial churches in Germany, organized in 1948 at Eisenach, E.Ger. The territorial churches were those of Bavaria, Brunswick, Hamburg, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia. The territorial churches of Wurttemberg and Oldenburg did not join. ...
- United Farm Workers of America
- U.S. labour union founded in 1962 as the National Farm Workers Association by Cesar Chavez, a migrant farm labourer. The union merged with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1966 and was re-formed under its current ... [2 Related Articles]
- United Farmers Party
- (from the article "Canada") ...for change disappeared, and organized labour and farmers mounted a revolt that swept across Canada. In 1919 Ontario's Conservative government was ousted by a farmer-labour alliance led by the United Farmers of Ontario. United Farmers governments were elected shortly afterward ...
- United Features
- (from the article "United Press International") ...European capitals. It began to supply news to Latin-American papers during World War I. Throughout its history United Press stressed human-interest and feature news, and it developed the subsidiary United Features syndicate to sell special features. It also established UP ...
- United Free Church of Scotland
- Presbyterian church formed in 1900 as the result of the union between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church (qq.v.). A series of unanimous decisions brought the United Presbyterian Church into the union. In the Free Church, ... [1 Related Articles]
- United Front
- in modern Chinese history, either of two coalitions between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang [KMT]). [1 Related Articles]
- United Front
- (from the article "Indian National Congress") The United Front government-a coalition of 13 parties-came to power as a minority government with the support of the Congress Party. However, as the largest single party in opposition in Parliament after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; Indian People's Party), ...
- United Front
- (from the article "Smith, Ian") In 1992 Smith led the United Front, a coalition of his party (now known as the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe) and black parties opposed to Mugabe's policies. His involvement in the coalition was short-lived, however, and by the end of ...
- United Front
- (from the article "United Front") in modern Chinese history, either of two coalitions between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang [KMT]).
- United Front for Democratic Change
- (from the article "Chad") ...Chad, where more than 200,000 displaced people lived after having fled there from the Darfur region of The Sudan. After months of accusations that The Sudan was sponsoring militias-notably the United Front for Democratic Change, a coalition of rebel groups ...
- United Fruit Company
- (from the article "United Fruit Company") major division of United Brands Company (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicChiquita Brands International, Inc.
- United Future
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...to form an administration. Clark's Labour Party (with 50 seats) concluded a formal coalition with the Progressive Party (1 seat), agreed to various arrangements with New Zealand First (7) and United Future (3), and made policy concessions to the Greens ...
- United Gold Coast Convention
- (from the article "Danquah, J.B.") Danquah actively sought constitutional reforms in the early 1940s and became a member of the Legislative Council in 1946. In 1947 he helped found the moderate United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a party mainly of the westernized elements of Gold ...
- United Greens of Austria
- (from the article "Austria") The environmentalist parties, including the Green Alternative (Die Grune Alternative; GA; founded 1986) and the United Greens of Austria (Vereinte Grune Osterreichs; VGO; founded 1982), have come to be known collectively as the Greens. The Greens first won seats in ...
- United House of Prayer for All People
- Pentecostal Holiness church founded by Bishop Charles Emmanuel ("Sweet Daddy") Grace (1881/84?-1960). After leaving a job as a cook on a Southern railway, he began to preach, assuming the name "Grace" and proclaiming himself "Bishop." He established a house of ...
- United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- (from the article "World Intellectual Property Organization") ...for works that were produced in other member countries. The two organizations, which had established separate secretariats to enforce their respective treaties, merged in 1893 to become the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI), which was ...
- United Iraqi Alliance
- (from the article "Iraq") ...however, took place on August 27 in Karbala between the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr and forces belonging to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. In mid-September, Sadr withdrew his group from the United Iraqi Alliance, the main Shi'ite bloc ...
- United Irishmen, Society of
- Irish political organization formed in October 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy, and Thomas Russell to achieve Roman Catholic emancipation and (with Protestant cooperation) parliamentary reform. British attempts to suppress the society caused its reorganization as an underground ... [5 Related Articles]
- United Kingdom
- island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain-which contains England, Wales, and Scotland-as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The name Britain ... [576 Related Articles]
- United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
- (from the article "telescope") Another example of an infrared telescope is the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), which has a 3.8-metre mirror made of Cer-Vit (trademark), a glass ceramic that has a very low coefficient of expansion. This instrument is configured in a Cassegrain ...
- United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves
- (from the article "Brazil") ...printing office, and the Bank of Brazil. He also founded a royal library, a military academy, and medical and law schools. His decree of December 16, 1815, designated the Portuguese dominions the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves, ...
- United Kingdom Trust
- (from the article "Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson") ...housing reformer Octavia Hill, Haldane founded in Edinburgh (1884) an organization for slum reconstruction and housing-project management. She was the first female (from 1914) of Andrew Carnegie's United Kingdom Trust, which she induced to rescue the Sadler's Wells Theatre and ...
- United Kingdom, flag of the
- red, white, and blue flag in which are combined the Crosses of St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland), and St. Patrick (Ireland). Initially the flag was called a jack only when it was flown at the bowsprit of British naval ... [32 Related Articles]
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