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Adventure Cycling Association Adventure Cycling Association was founded in 1973 under the name of Bikecentennial to inspire people of all ages to travel by bicycle for fun, fitness, and self-discovery. Adventure Cycling is America's bicycle travel inspiration and resource, offering many programs for cyclists, including a national network of bicycle touring routes and organized trips.
Adventure game Adventure is a genre of computer and video games typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. The vast majority of adventure games are computer games, though console-based adventure games are not unheard of.
Adventure Game Studio Adventure Game Studio is a freeware tool that can be used to create both free and commercial graphical adventure games. It is aimed at intermediate-level game designers, and combines an IDE for setting up most aspects of the game with a scripting language in order to process the game logic.
Adventure Gamers Adventure Gamers is a computer game website created in 1998 dedicated to the genre of adventure games. It publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers.
Adventure Games Live Adventure Games Live (AGL) is a feature at RinkWorks. The games on it are single-player turn-based adventure games run in CGI on an engine written by Samuel Stoddard, who runs RinkWorks and wrote five of the ten games currently available on AGL.
Adventure International Adventure International was a video game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system.
Adventure Island (TV series) Adventure Island was a popular Australian television series for children which screened on the ABC from September 11 1967 to December 22 1972 (repeats of the 1969-1972 episodes ran from 1973-1976). The show typically aired from Monday to Friday and each story would stretch across a full week, reaching a resolution on Friday.
Adventure Island (video game) , also known as Hudson's Adventure Island, is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System and certain other platforms, first released in Japan for the Famicom on September 12, 1986. The North American NES release came in September, 1988, and the game was released as Adventure Island Classic in Europe several years later, in 1992.
Adventure novel The adventure novel is a literary genre that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction.
Adventure of the Seas Completed in 2001, Adventure of the Seas is one of five Voyager-class cruise ships from Royal Caribbean International. Voyager-class ships are the third largest passenger ships in the world; currently, only Cunard's Queen Mary 2 and Royal Caribbean International's Freedom of the Seas are larger.
Adventure Ocean Adventure Ocean is the brand name for Royal Caribbean International's youth activity program on board their vessels. It is run by a trained staff, and there are different programs tailored to fit seven separate age groups.
Adventure Path Adventure Paths are serial Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game adventures. Though originally applied to the series of Third Edition modules beginning with The Sunless Citadel, the phrase has more recently come to apply nearly exclusively to several lengthy series, each consisting of 11-12 installments, published sequentially in Dungeon magazine.
Adventure racing Adventure racing is a combination of two or more disciplines, including orienteering and navigation, cross-country running, mountain biking, paddling and climbing and related rope skills. An expedition event can span ten days or more while sprints can be completed in a matter of hours.
Adventure recreation Adventure recreation refers to active and outdoor activities such as backpacking (wilderness), rafting, climbing, and outdoor survival. A few universities give degrees in adventure recreation, which aim to teach graduates how to run a business in the field of adventure recreation.
Adventure running Adventure running is the sport of running over a variety of surfaces (dirt, road, mountain, sand), generally over long distances, where the racer has to overcome nature. Challenges include river crossing, scrambling, snow, extreme high or low temperatures, and high altitudes.
Adventure Soft Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer which was established in the 1980s by Mike Woodroffe, then owner of Callisto Computers, one of the very early computer shops. Callisto Computers was, amongst other things, an importer and reseller of Adventure International games.
Adventure therapy The use of adventure in therapy has a long history that has influenced the most recent forms of adventure practices in the therapeutic process. Influences from a variety of learning and psychological theories have contributed to the complex theoretical combination within adventure therapy (AT).
Adventure tourism Adventure tourism is a type of niche tourism involving exploration or travel to remote areas, where the traveler should expect the unexpected. Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity as tourists seek unusual holidays, different from the typical beach vacation.
Adventure Unlimited Adventure Unlimited (commonly referred to as A/U) is a non-profit Christian Science organization based in Denver, Colorado. A/U's self-proclaimed primary function is to "provide inspiring recreational, social, educational, and service activities for Christian Scientists and their friends, especially children and young people, in an atmosphere conducive to the recognition of the practicality and effectiveness of Christian Science.
Adventuredome The Adventuredome is a 5 acre elevated themepark located in the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. The attractions include Xtreme Zone, Pikes Pass, Virtual Reality Zone, Midway Games, Adventuredome Arcade, and free clown shows.
Adventureland Adventureland is one of the "themed lands" at the many Magic Kingdom-style parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world. It is themed to resemble the remote jungles in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America and the South Pacific.
AdventureQuest AdventureQuest (also referred to by its website name BattleOn or as simply AQ) is an online single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002. It is implemented in Flash and uses anime-style graphics, some of which are animated.
Adventurers of the North - Kalevala Heroes Adventurers of the North - Kalevala Heroes (usually abbreviated to ANKH) is a fantasy role-playing game, based loosely on the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland. ANKH's system was quite similar to that of Dungeons & Dragons, with some elements borrowed from RuneQuest; A review in Finnish RPG magazine Sininen Lohikäärme compared the system to that of Tunnels & Trolls.
Adventures in Babysitting Adventures in Babysitting is a 1987 film written by David Simkins, directed by Chris Columbus, and starring Elisabeth Shue, Bradley Whitford, Maia Brewton, Anthony Rapp, Penelope Ann Miller, and Keith Coogan. Although it is set in Oak Park and Chicago, Illinois, with much of the action taking place in the city itself, the movie was filmed primarily in Toronto.
Adventures in Gramophone Adventures in Gramophone is an album by the Northern Ireland based artist Duke Special. It was released on Hag Records in 2005 and collects all twelve tracks from two previous EP releases - Lucky Me and My Villain Heart.
Adventures in Middle America, Vol 2 Adventures In Middle America, Vol 2 is the follow-up album recorded by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The album was originally recorded and released in 2004, but a re-release debuted in 2006 on Sarathan Records.
Adventures in Paradise Adventures in Paradise was an ABC television series which ran from 1959 until 1962. It starred Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure.
Adventures in Wonderland Adventures in Wonderland was a live-action children's television series based on Walt Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland. In the series, Alice (played by Elisabeth Harnois), is portrayed as a girl who can go to and from Wonderland simply by walking through her mirror (most likely a reference to Wonderland's source material Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass).
Adventures Into Digital Comics Adventures Into Digital Comics is a documentary by SĂ©bastien Dumesnil about the fall of the comic book industry in the 1990s and the emergence of webcomics since then. The film features interviews with various comic book and webcomic artists and authors.
Adventures of a Dentist Adventures of a Dentist (, Pokhozhdyeniya zubnovo vracha) is a 1965 Russian dark comedy/drama feature film directed by Elem Klimov on Mosfilm. It is currently unavailable on video or DVD for any audience, but is occasionally screened at film festivals.
Adventures of Alfredo Adventures of Alfredo, or Alfredo's Arduous Adventures was the original non-interactive computer animation series that featured a lovable trial-ridden stick-figure anti-hero named Alfredo. Alfredo is something of a cross between Mr.
Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius is a comic book series created, written and illustrated by Judd Winick. It follows the comical escapades of the eponymous character, a 10-year-old boy who secretly possesses the most powerful intellect on Earth, along with his impulsive best friend Jeremy and his crush Sara.
Adventures of Batman & Robin There are several releases of the video game Adventures of Batman and Robin for some of the different consoles in the market. The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega Mega CD were were published by Sega while the Super NES one was published by Konami.
Adventures of Captain Marvel The Adventures of Captain Marvel is an acclaimed 12-chapter film serial directed by John English and William Witney for Republic Pictures in 1941. It starred Tom Tyler (who also played The Phantom) in the title role of Captain Marvel and Frank Coghlan Jr as his alter ego, Billy Batson.
Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is the title of a comic book published by DC Comics featuring the popular team of comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The series ran for 40 issues from 1952 through 1957, at which time the title was renamed because of the factual breakup of the team.
Adventures of Evil & Malice Adventures of Evil & Malice is the title of a comic book series by Jimmie Robinson. The series is an "all-ages" superhero comic featuring the adventures of twelve-year-old girls who are the children of both a superhero (their mother) and a supervillain (their father) Sequential Tart, Volume II, Number 5, May 1999 (http://www.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books).
Adventures of Jerry Lewis Adventures of Jerry Lewis continued the numbering of the previous series Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, which ran from 1952 to 1957. This series started with issue #41 in 1957 and continued through issue #124 in 1971.
Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son (originally Motl peysi dem khazns -- Mottel Son of Peysi the Cantor) was Sholom Aleichem’s last novel, and is regarded as one of his funniest. Written from the perspective of a ten year old orphan boy, the novel centers on an Orthodox-Jewish family during Tsarist Russia of the early 20th Century, and follows them and other members of their small village as they immigrate to the United States.
Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (Polish: Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki), written in Polish in 1776 by Ignacy Krasicki, is the first novel written in the Polish language, and one of the milestones of Polish literature.
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, and it provides a comic and caustic portrayal of 18th century European society.
Adventures of Stephen Brown The Adventures of Stephen Brownis a science fiction series that is broadcast weekly on Southampton Television and Six TV, both free-to-view terrestrial RSL channels. New episodes appear each Tuesday, that episode being repeated three times each day for a week.
Adventures of Superman (comic book) Adventures of Superman, sometimes The Adventures of Superman, was a comic book series featuring Superman, produced monthly by DC Comics, and numbered from issue #424 (print date January 1987) to issue #649 (print date April 2006), for a total of 226 issues (plus nine annuals). It was the renamed continuation of the original Superman title which began in 1939, and with issue #650 returns to the original title.
Adventures of Superman (TV series) Adventures of Superman was the first television series featuring the comic book superhero Superman. The series, which was syndicated rather than being tied to a network, began filming in 1951, and was first aired on September 19, 1952.
Adventures of the Black Stallion Adventures of the Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion (1979) and The Return of the Black Stallion (1983). The series originally ran on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993 before cancellation.
Adventures of the Little Koala Adventures of the Little Koala was an anime series of Japanese/Korean origin that aired on Nickelodeon dubbed in English from 1987 to 1993. In Japan, the show aired in late 1984 and early 1985 on TV Tokyo under the title Koala Boy Kokki.
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is the second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League. Written in 1929 the stories, which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order.
Adventures of Wim Adventures of Wim or Whim is a book by George Cockcroft, written under the pen name Luke Rhinehart. It was published (as Adventures of Wim) in 1986, and was sold as "The sequel, well almost, to The Dice Man".
Adventuress (dinghy) The Adventuress sailing dinghy class was built by Anglo Marine of Essex, The Adventuress is classed as a family dinghy due to its spacious design and stable hull made so by the unique bilge keels. The dinghy is 12 feet 6 inches long with a mast just over 18 feet.
Adverb An adverb is a part of speech. It is a word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs, except for nouns; modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives.
Adverbial In grammar an adverbial is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial phrase or an adverbial clause) which modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb. The word adverbial is also used as an adjective, meaning 'having the same function as an adverb'.
Advergaming Advergaming is the practice of using games, particularly computer games, to advertise or promote a product, organization or viewpoint. The term "advergames" was coined in Wired magazine's "Jargon Watch" column in 2001, and has been applied to various free online games commissioned by major companies.
Adversane Adversane is a hamlet located south of Billingshurst, West Sussex, England. It consists of a cluster of houses and a public house (the Blacksmith's Arms) at a crossroads on the A29 road, the Roman Stane Street.
Adversarial system The adversarial system (or adversary system) of law is the system of law, generally adopted in common law countries, that relies on the skill of the different advocates representing their party's positions and not on some neutral party, usually the judge, trying to ascertain the truth of the case. The inquisitorial system that is usually found on the continent of Europe among civil law systems (ie.
Adversary (comics) The Adversary is a fictional character, a demonic supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and one of the most powerful villains to ever appear. He first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #188, by Chris Claremont and John Romita, Jr.
Adversary (cryptography) In cryptography, an adversary (rarely opponent, enemy) is a malicious entity whose aim is to prevent the users of the cryptosystem from achieving their goal (primarily privacy, integrity and availability of data). An adversary's efforts might take the form of attempting to discover secret data, corrupting some of the data in the system, spoofing the identity of a message sender or receiver, or forcing system downtime.
Adversary proceeding An Adversary Proceeding, in bankruptcy, is a lawsuit, in the American legal system, filed by a party called a "plaintiff" against a party called a "defendant." See also Bankruptcy in the United States.
Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee The Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee or ADRAC is a subcommittee of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) which monitors the safety of medicines in Australia. ADRAC evaluates reports from the Adverse Drug Reactions Unit of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which administers the adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting system in Australia, and may make recommendations regarding the medication including withdrawal of medications from the market.
Adverse effect (medicine) In medicine, an adverse effect is a harmful and undesired effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as chemotherapy or surgery. An adverse effect may be termed a "side-effect" (when judged to be secondary to a main or therapeutic effect) and may result from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or procedure (which could be due to medical error).
Adverse event An adverse event (AE) is any adverse change in health or "side-effect" that occurs in a person during a clinical trial or within a pre-specified period after dosing is complete. Not every adverse event is causally related to the treatment or test being studied, but researchers must report all adverse events to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)or the relevant regulatory authority in the country where the drug or device is to be registered.
Adverse possession In common law, adverse possession is the name given to the process by which title to another's real property is acquired without compensation, by, as the name suggests, holding the property in a manner that conflicts with the true owner's rights for a specified period of time.
Adverse pressure gradient An adverse pressure gradient occurs when the static pressure increases in the direction of the flow. This is important for boundary layers, since increasing the fluid pressure is akin to increasing the potential energy of the fluid, leading to a reduced kinetic energy and a deceleration of the fluid.
Adverse selection Adverse selection or anti-selection is a term used in economics and insurance. On the most abstract level, it refers to a market process in which bad results occur due to information asymmetries between buyers and sellers: the "bad" products or customers are more likely to be selected.
Advertainment Advertainment is a marketing activity that uses media channels or products typically classified as entertainment for distribution. The key distinction attributed to “advertainment” as opposed to “entertaining advertising” is that the advertising is designed to solicit or promote interaction with the campaign.
Advertiser funded programming Advertiser funded programming (AFP) is a recent term applied to a break away from the traditional model of television funding. Typically programmes have been funded by a broadcaster and they re-couped the money through selling advertising space around the content.
Advertising Advertising is paid communication through a non-personal medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. Variations include publicity, public relations, product placement, sponsorship, underwriting, and sales promotion.
Advertising agency An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services.
Advertising antiques Advertising antiques is an area of collecting that combines street jewellery (old enamel signs, dispensers, advertising windows, shop fittings and illuminated signs), ephemera (printed paper and card items) and old packaging (tins, labelled bottles, packets, dummy bars, boxes and counter bins). Made popular during the late 1960s and ’70s by collectors such as Robert Opie (The Pack-Age Museum), this area of collectables includes any throwaway shop display items used to advertise products, or the actual products themselves.
Advertising Association According to itself, the Advertising Association (AA) is a federation of 31 trade bodies and organisations representing the advertising and promotional marketing industries including advertisers, agencies, media and support services in the UK.
Advertising campaign An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). Advertising campaigns appear in different media across a specific time frame.
Advertising in Palembang Advertising in Palembang has been developed significantly since it became a host for National Sporting Event in 2004. Palembang Government is trying to develop advertisement even more as it may increase the revenue to palembang itself.
Advertising management Advertising is a management function. While advertising is the event, advertising Management is the whole process - a function of marketing starting from market research continuing through Advertising leading to actual sales or achievement of objective.
Advertising network Ad networks serve advertising on your website and share advertiser revenue for qualified clicks each time your site visitors clicks on ads. An advertising network (also called an online advertising network or ad network) is a collection of (often unrelated) online advertising inventory.
Advertising postcard An advertising postcard also known as a free card or an ad card is a postcard which is designed and used to advertise or raise awareness of a company, service or cause. The difference between advertising postcards and normal postcards is distinguished by the fact that advertising postcards are not touristic or solely intended for tourists.
Advertising regulation Advertising regulation refers to the laws and [defining the ways in which products can be advertised] in a particular region. Rules can define a wide number of different aspects, such as placement, timing, and content.
Advertising slogan Advertising slogans are claimed to be, and often are proven to be, the most effective means of drawing attention to one or more aspects of a product or products. Typically they make claims about being the best quality, the tastiest, cheapest, most nutritious, providing an important benefit or solution, or being most suitable for the potential customer.
Advertising Specialties Promotional Products or Advertising Specialties is the imprinting of company logo or information on literally hundreds of thousands of different products to help promote their company name or the theme they have on the product. The business is a multi billion dollar industry with sales exceeding $17 billion.
Advertising Standards Authority The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent British self regulatory organisation (SRO) of the advertising industry. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation.
Advertising tissues Advertising tissues are a phenomenon in Tokyo, Japan that some would consider a mode of guerilla marketing, using tissues to move advertising copy. These tissues are distributed on the streets, largely outside of subway stations.
Advertising-free media Advertising-free media refers to media outlets whose output is not funded or subsidised by the sale of advertising space. It includes in its scope mass media entities such as websites, television and radio networks, and magazines.
Advertorial An advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective opinion editorial, and presented in a printed publication —usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story. The term "advertorial" is a portmanteau of "advertisement" and "editorial.
Advice (constitutional) In constitutional law, Advice is formal, usually binding instruction given by a constitutional officer of state to another. Heads of state in particular act on the basis of AdviceÂą issued by governments and prime ministers.
Advice and consent "Advice and consent" is a phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.
Advice taker John McCarthy proposed the Advice Taker in his 1958 paper "Programs with Common Sense" McCarthy, John, Programs with common sense, Symposium on Mechanization of Thought Processes. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England, 1958..
Advising bank An advising bank, in international trade, is a bank operating for the exporter in the exporter's country; the bank which handles letters of credit for foreign banks. An advising bank informs the exporter of the conditions of the letter of credit without
Advisory Board Company The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a commercial, for-profit, public company that provides general best practices research, executive education, productized consulting, and business intelligence solutions to healthcare organizations. The Advisory Board has 29 specialized research programs, each geared toward a specific corporate function at hospitals and health systems.
Advisory capital Advisory capital is an investment of experience, expertise, social capital, and public authority into a company in return for some form of equity in the company. The first known use of the term is in a blog post by Stowe Boyd on February 20, 2006.
Advisory Centre on World Trade Organization Law The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) is an international organisation established in 2001 to provide legal advice on WTO law, support in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and training in WTO law to least developed countries, developing countries and customs territories, and countries with economies in transition.
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica. The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN will assign names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclatural bodies where appropriate.
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments is an independent body in the UK, which provides advice government officials on applications from the most senior Crown servants who wish to take up outside appointments after they leave Crown service.
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) consists of fifteen advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), selected by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, to provide advice and guidance on the most effective means to prevent diseases through nation-wide vaccination campaigns.
Advisory Council of Faculty Senates The Advisory Council of Faculty Senates (ACFS) is a non-partisan statewide organization of university faculty members formed to represent the interests of all faculty members working for the State University System of Florida. ACFS membership consists of two representatives from the Faculty Senate of each public university in the state, one of which is typically the Chair of his/her university's Faculty Senate and thus serve's on that university's Board of Trustees.
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (or ACHP) is an independent United States Federal agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of the nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are composed of elected officials called Commissioners who each represent about 2000 people within the District of Columbia. As of the United States census for the year 2000, there are 270 Commissioner seats spread among 37 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs).
Advisory opinion An advisory opinion, is an opinion issued by a court that does not have the effect of resolving a specific legal case, but merely advises on the constitutionality or interpretation of a law. Some countries have procedures by which the executive or legislative branches may certify important questions to the judiciary and obtain an advisory opinion.
Advocaat Advocaat is a rich and creamy Dutch liqueur made from a blend of egg yolks, aromatic spirits, sugar (or honey), brandy, vanilla and sometimes cream (or evaporated milk). It has a smooth, somewhat bland taste fairly similar to almonds.
Advocacy Campaign Team for Mining The Advocacy Campaign Team for Mining (ACT) is the National Mining Association's national network which provides tools to communicate with legislators at all levels of government to shape and influence public policies governing the United States mining industry.
Advocacy Groups and Dennis Prager during the Quran Oath Controversy of the 110th United States Congress After conservative columnist Dennis Prager, a member of Conservative Judaism wrote a column questioning the decision of Keith Ellison (D-MN) to hold a Quran during a ceremony reenacting his oath taken upon entering the 110th US Congress representing Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District.Retrieved on Dec.
Advocacy journalism Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that (unlike simple propaganda) is fact-based, but supports a specific point of view on an issue. Advocacy journalists might be expected to focus on stories dealing with corporate business practices, government policies, political corruption, and social issues.
Advocates for Animals Advocates for Animals, formerly known as the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, is an animal rights organization which campaigns against all animal use including farming, the fur trade, bloodsports, captive and performing animals, and the use of animals in research.Intute Health and Life Sciences.

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