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Agonalia In Ancient Roman religious tradition, Agonalia, or Agonia, was a festival celebrated several times a year, in honor of various divinities, such as Janus and Agonius, whom the Romans used to invoke upon their undertaking any business of importance. The word is derived either from Agonia, " a victim," or from Agonium, "a festival.
Agonandra brasiliensis Agonandra brasiliensis (Portuguese common name: Pau-marfim) is a timber tree native to Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is Brazilian wood export, and it is often used for flooring and furniture, specially chair production.
Agonism Agonism is a political theory which emphasises the potentially positive aspects of certain (but not all) forms of political conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict, but seeks to show how we might accept and channel this positively.
Agonist An agonist is a molecule that selectively binds to a specific receptor and triggers a response in the cell. It mimics the action of an endogenous biochemical molecule (such as hormone or neurotransmitter) that binds to the same receptor.
Agonistes The word Agonistes, found as an epithet following a person's name, means 'the struggler' or 'the combatant'. It is most often an allusion to John Milton's 1671 verse tragedy "Samson Agonistes," which recounts the end of Samson's life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines (famous line: "Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves").
Agonistic liberalism The term Agonistic liberalism appears in John Gray's book Isaiah Berlin from 1995. Gray uses this phrase to describe what he believes is an internal inconsistency in Berlin's theory of politics, namely his support for value pluralism and liberalism.
Agonistici Agonistici were Donatists, Christian heretics, who were specifically sent into neighboring places, fairs, markets, to preach the doctrine of Donatus Magnus. For this reason, they were also variously called Circuitores, Cercelliones, Catropitae, Coropitae, and, in Rome, Montenses.
Agonophilia Agonophilia is the paraphilia involving sexual arousal derived from the act of fighting, or participating in or observing a combat sport, such as wrestling, boxing or kickboxing, martial arts, etc., or from viewing depictions thereof; from the Greek agonos (combat, struggle, conflict) and philia (love of).
Agonothetes In ancient Greece, an agonothetes was the president or superintendent of the sacred games. At first the person who instituted the games and defrayed the expenses was the Agonothetes; but in the great public games, such as the Olympic Games and Pythian Games, these presidents were the representatives of different states, or were chosen from the people in whose country the games were celebrated; thus at the Pythian Games at Athens ten athlothetae were elected for four years to superintend the various contests.
Agony (comics) Agony (Leslie), also known as Screech and Shriek, is a fictional character, a supervillain from the Spider-Man comic books. She is one of the six symbiote spawns of Venom from the Venom: Separation Anxiety 4-issue mini-series.
Agony aunt An agony aunt is a columnist at a magazine or newspaper who writes a segment commonly known as an advice column. The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt".
Agora (Thrace) Agora (in Greek Aγoρα) was an ancient town situated about the middle of the narrow neck of the Thracian Chersonese (called today Gallipoli peninsula), and not far from Cardia, in what is now European Turkey. Xerxes, when invading Greece in 480 BC, passed through it.
Agora programming language Agora is a reflective, prototype-based, object-oriented programming language that is based exclusively on message passing and not delegation. Agora was intended to show that even subject to that limitation, it is possible to build a full-fledged object-oriented language that features inheritance, cloning and reflective operators.
Agoranomi Agoranomi were magistrates in the republics of Greece, whose position and duties were in many respects similar to those of the aediles of Rome. In Athens there were ten, chosen annually by lot, five of whom took charge of the city and five of the Peiraeus.
Agoranomos Agoranomos (ἀγορανόμος, plural: agoranomoi, ἀγορανόμοι) was an electable official position in the cities of Ancient Greece and Byzantine Empire that controlled the order of the marketplace (agora, hence the name, translated as "market overseer"). A polis could have several of them.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore/cybergrind band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull (guitars, drum programming), who also plays guitar in Pig Destroyer.
AgoraVox AgoraVox is a Citizen journalism community news and opinion French site. The article are written by volunteers and not by professional journalists in much the same way as Wikinews the Korean site OhmyNews or Indymedia.
Agoria Agoria is a multisector federation representing Belgian companies active in 11 branches of industry: metals & materials, metal products, plastics, mechanical & mechatronical engineering, electrical engineering & electronics, ICT, automotive, aerospace, security & defence, industrial automation and contracting maintenance. Together, these sectors constitute the technological industry, and the federation provides collective and individual services for 1,300 member companies on a daily basis.
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Agostic interaction The word agostic was first coined for organometallic chemistry by Malcolm Green and Maurice Brookhart to describe a weak bonding interaction between a transition metal and a C-H bond. It is derived from the Greek word for "to hold close to oneself".
Agostinho da Silva George Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE (Porto, February 13 1906 - Lisbon, April 3 1994), was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism, an ethic of renounciation (like in Buddhism or Franciscanism), and a belief in freedom as the most important feature of man.
Agostinho Neto António Agostinho Neto (September 17, 1922 – September 10, 1979) was the first President of Angola (1975–1979), a poet, nationalist and Marxist-Leninist, founder and leader of the communist party, the Soviet-line Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes Day, a public holiday in Angola.
Agostino Carollo Agostino Carollo, better known as X-Treme, is an Italian singer, disc jockey, and producer who is currently signed with EMI. Originally a classical violinist, he specializes in dance music, including remixes of songs such as KC and the Sunshine Band's That's the Way.
Agostino Gemelli Agostino Gemelli (1878-1959) was an Italian physician, Franciscan friar and psychologist who was also the founder and chancellor of Catholic University at Milan (UniversitĂ  cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, literally Catholic University of the Sacred Heart at Milan) in 1921.
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic The Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic (Italian: Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli) is a large general hospital in Rome, Italy. It serves as the teaching hospital for the medical school of the UniversitĂ  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (the largest private university in Italy), and owes its name to the university founder, the Franciscan friar Agostino Gemelli.
Agostino Straulino Agostino Straulino (October 10, 1914 – December 14, 2004) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal and one silver medal in the starboat class, and eight consecutive European championships and two world championships in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class.
Agoston Haraszthy Agoston Haraszthy (Ah-gush-tun Harris-tee) (August 30, 1812 in Futak, Hungary-July 6, 1869 in Nicaragua), the “Father of Modern Viticulture in California,” was born in Hungary. Commonly referred to as "Count Haraszthy" not actually a count though he was from a noble family.
Agounit Agounit is a small town or village in the RĂ­o de Oro area of Western Sahara. Most of its Sahrawi Bedouin inhabitants fled the Moroccan and Mauritanian invasion of Western Sahara (then known as Spanish Sahara), and Mauritania's annexation of the area into Tiris al-Gharbiyya (rescinded in 1979).
Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, USA. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students.
Agoura, California Agoura, California is a very small unincorporated community between Agoura Hills and Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Much of the area that is legally in the unincorporated town of Agoura is often considered a part of the Agoura Hills neighborhood Old Agoura.
Agouti-related peptide Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) is a neuropeptide created in the arcuate nucleus of the brain that increases appetite and decreases metabolism. It is one of the most potent and long-lasting of appetite stimulators.
Agra summit The Agra summit was a two-day summit held on July 15th and 16th, 2001 between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. It was organized with the aim to resolve long-standing issues between India and Pakistan.
Agracetus The Agracetus Campus of Monsanto is the largest soybean transformation laboratory in the world. The first successful genetically engineered crop ever produced for the commercial market was the Roundup Ready soybean, produced at Agracetus in 1991, and was one of fourteen successful transformation events.
Agrafiotis The Agrafioti River (Greek: Potamos Agrafiotis) is a river that flows entirely in the Evrytania prefecture. The river owes its name to Agrafa, one of the largest communities and once the second largest in the prefecture.
Agram 2000 The Agram 2000 is a Croatian Submachine gun based on Beretta's PM12. The vast numbers of ex-special forces Agrams floating around Croatia after the Croatian War of Independence as well as the availability of a sound suppressor has made it a popular choice for criminals.
Agrammatism Agrammatism is a form of expressive aphasia that refers to the inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion. Dorland's Medical Dictionary, Agrammatism, People with agrammatism may have telegraphic speech Goodglass H.
Agranat Commission The Agranat Commission was an official Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Israeli government to investigate the circumstances leading to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. The Committee was headed by Shimon Agranat, Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court.
Agrapha of Jesus The logia agrapha (Greek for "unwritten words") refers to the sayings of Jesus Christ that are not found in the canonical Gospels of the Bible but are found in other New Testament or early Christian writings.
Agrarian and Industrial Union of Workers Bloc The Agrarian and Industrial Union of Workers Bloc is a bloc in Kazakhstan, formed by the Agrarian Party of Kazakhstan and the Civic Party of Kazakhstan. At the last legislative elections, 19 September and 3 October 2004, the block won 7.
Agrarian land reform in Mexico Before the 1910 Mexican Revolution that overthrew Porfirio DĂ­az most of the land was owned by a single elite ruling class. Legally there was no slavery or serfdom; but through heavy debts Indian wage workers, or peasants, were basically debt-slaves to the landowners.
Agrarian Party of Belarus The Agrarian Party of Belarus (Belarusian: Агра́рная па́ртыя Белару́сі, Agrarnaya Partya Belarusi) is a political party in Belarus that supports the regime of president Alexander Lukashenko.
Agrarian Party of Russia The Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii, Аграрная Партия России, АПР) is a left wing agrarian party in Russia. Founded in February of 1993, it is among the oldest political parties in modern Russia.
Agrarian reform Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land (see land reform) or can refer more broadly to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures. Agrarian reform can include credit measures, training, land consolidations, etc.
Agrarian Reform Laws of Cuba The agrarian reform laws of Cuba have sought to break up large landholdings and redistribute them to those who worked them, to cooperatives, and the state. Laws relating to land reform were implemented in the Cuban Constitution of 1940 and in a series of laws passed between 1958 and 1963.
Agrarian society An agrarian society is one that is based on agriculture as its prime means for support and sustenance. The society acknowledges other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses on agriculture and farming, and was the main form of socio-economic organisation for most of recorded human history.
Agrarian Trade Union Federation Agrarian Trade Union Federation (in Spanish: FederaciĂłn Sindical Agraria) was a national-syndicalist trade union in Spain, founded in 1933 in Castile. The federation was linked to the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista.
Agrasen Agrasen (Maharaja Agrasen, Emperor Agrasen, Devanagari: महाराजा अग्रसेन) was the ancient Indian king of Agroha, a city of traders, from whom the Agrawal community traces its origin. He is credited with the establishment of a kingdom of traders in North India, and is known for his compassion in refusing to slaugher animals in yajnas.
Agravain Sir Agravain or Sir Agravaine is a nephew of King Arthur and a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He is the second son of King Lot of Orkney and Lothian and Morgause; his brothers are Gawain, Gaheris, Gareth, and Mordred.
Agre Agre (अग्रे) or Aga (अगा) or Hanga (हंगा) is a clan or gotra of Jats found in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in India. This clan is descended from Hagamasha, who was a satrap of Mathura appointed by the Kushan ruler Kanishka.
Agree to disagree Agree to disagree or "agreeing to disagree" describes or refers to a situation where two or more people or groups of people resolve conflict by reaching an agreement whereby both sides tolerate but do not accept the views, opinions or position of the other side. Both sides typically "agree to disagree" where they recognise that further conflict is unnecessary, ineffective or otherwise undesirable.
Agreeable tiger moth The curiously-named agreeable tiger moth, Spilosoma congrua is one of three species of white tiger moth which are common in the US. It has pronounced black eyes, white abdomen, and orange "bib" which set it apart from its cousin the virginia tiger moth.
Agreeableness Agreeableness is a tendency to be pleasant and accommodating in social situations. In contemporary personality psychology, agreeableness is one of the five major dimenstions of personality structure, reflecting individual differences in concern for cooperation and social harmony.
Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea The Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was signed on October 21, 1994 between North Korea (DPRK) and the United States. The agreement largely broke-down by 2003.
Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership The Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership (CEP) entered into force on 1 January 2001. It is the most comprehensive trading agreement, outside of Closer Economic Relations with Australia, that New Zealand has negotiated.
Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in and Use of Prepared Opium The Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in and Use of Prepared Opium, also known as the Agreement concerning the Suppression of the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in, and Use of, Prepared Opium, was a treaty promulgated in Geneva on 11 February 1925.
Agreement for the Control of Opium Smoking in the Far East The Agreement for the Control of Opium Smoking in the Far East, also known as the Agreement concerning the Suppression of Opium Smoking, was a treaty concluded in Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Lake Success, New York on 11 December 1946.
Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance The Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, also known as the YYA Treaty from the Finnish Ystävyys-, yhteistyö- ja avunantosopimus (YYA-sopimus) (Swedish: Vänskaps-, samarbets- och biståndsavtalet (VSB-avtalet)), was the basis for Finno–Soviet relations from 1948 to 1992.
Agreement of the People The Agreement of the People was a manifesto for the revolutionary changes to English parliamentary system, issued by the Levellers. Between 1647 and 1649 several different versions of the Agreement were published, each adapted to address not only broad concerns but specific issues faced by the Levellers and their supporters during the fast changing revolutionary political environment of those years.
Agreement on Agriculture The Agreement on Agriculture is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1 1995.
Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control Signed June 14, 1996, the Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control limits the number of tanks, armored combat vehicles (ACVs), artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters that the parties to the agreement can possess. As part of the agreement, the parties of the former Yugoslavia (comprised of Serbia and Montenegro), the two entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina (the Muslim-Croat federation and the Bosnian-Serb-controlled Republica Srpska) and Croatia annually exchange information on and allow inspections of their military holdings.
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - also known as the SPS Agreement is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995.
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels is a legally binding international treaty signed in 2001. It was created in order to halt the decline of seabird populations in the southern hemisphere, particularly albatrosses and procellariids, which are threatened by introduced species on their breeding islands, pollution and being taken as by-catch by long-line fisheries (which kills more than 300,000 seabirds a year).
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade - also known as the TBT Agreement is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is a treaty administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) which sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation. It was negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty in 1994.
Agreste In Brazil, the agreste is a narrow zone in the states of ParaĂ­ba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal zona da mata (forest zone) and the semiarid sertĂŁo. The agreste actually fades out before Rio Grande Do Norte is reached owing to the breakdown of the mountain chain that gives the coastal Atlantic forest zone high rainfall.
Agri (people) The Agri were an ancient people dwelling along the Palus Maeotis in antiquity. Strabo describes them as living among the Maeotae, Sindi, Dandarii, Toreatae, Arrechi, Tarpetes, Obidiaceni, Sittaceni, Dosci, and Aspurgiani, among others.
Agri-entertainment Agri-entertainment and agritourism refer to consumer-focused forms of agriculture, in which farms supplement (or replace) their traditional income from the sale of crops to wholesale markets by offering a variety of "entertainment farming" options.
Agribusiness In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term that refers to the various businesses involved in food production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. The term has two distinctly different connotations depending on context.
AgriBank AgriBank, FCB, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a financial institution, part of the Farm Credit System lending to Farm Credit Services organizations serving Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. AgriBank with over $35 billion in assets and over $2 billion in equity is owned by the Seventh District Farm Credit Services Associations.
Agricola (book) The Agricola (full Latin title: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, meaning The life and death of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c. 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general.
Agricola (vehicles) Agricola was a Greek maker of 4x4 multi-purpose trucks, founded in 1975 in Thessaloniki and producing only for a few years. The Agricola truck was a fairly advanced design with enhanced all-terrain capabilities, a metal cabin and Mercedes-Benz Diesel engine.
Agricultural aircraft An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use -- usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertiliser (aerial topdressing); in this role they are referred to as "top dressers" or "crop dusters." Agricultural aircraft are also used for hydroseeding.
Agricultural Adjustment Act The Agricultural Adjustment Act (or AAA) (Public law 73-10 of May 12, 1933) restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again.
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 was the result of the unconstitutionality of previous New Deal farm legislation and the success of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act passed in 1936. During the first session of the Seventy-fifth Congress an extension of the soil conservation plan was given consideration.
Agricultural biodiversity Agricultural biodiversity is a sub-set of general biodiversity including all cultivated varieties. Cultivated varieties can be broadly classified into “modern varieties” and “farmer’s or traditional varieties”.
Agricultural Bank of China The Agricultural Bank of China () is the one of the 'big four' banks in the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1949, and has its headquarters in Beijing and has branches throughout mainland China, and also in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Agricultural colonies in Argentina Agricultural colonies in Argentina were a demographically and economically important part of the evolution of the country. The Argentine government, faced with large areas of fertile land that were unpopulated or settled by aboriginal tribes (unassimilated and considered undesirable for progress), encouraged European immigration, welcoming settling agreements with countries, regions and associations abroad.
Agricultural Cooperative College Agricultural Cooperative College is a private technical college located in Goyang City, Gyeonggi province, South Korea. It is operated by the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, also known as Nong Hyup.
Agricultural Development & Training Society ADATS is a secular Non Government Organisation (NGO) working with 35,573 small and poor peasant families in 891 villages of the 5 northern taluks of Kolar district, Karnataka, in South India for the past 29 years, since 14 December 1977.
Agricultural economics Agricultural Economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. The current scope of the discipline is much broader, however, and includes a variety of applied areas such as:
Agricultural education Agricultural education is instruction about crop production, livestock management, soil and water conservation, and various other aspects of agriculture. Agricultural education includes instruction in food education, such as nutrition.
Agricultural experiment station An agricultural experiment station is a research center that conducts scientific investigations to solve problems and suggest improvements in the food and agriculture industry. Experiment station scientists work with farmers, ranchers, suppliers, processors, and others involved in food production and agriculture.
Agricultural extension Agricultural extension was once known as the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. The field of extension now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organised for rural people by professionals from different disciplines, including agriculture, health, and business studies.
Agricultural gang Agricultural gangs were, historically, groups of women, girls and boys organized by an independent gang-master, under whose supervision they execute agricultural piece-work for farmers in certain parts of England. They were sometimes called "public gangs" to distinguish them from "private gangs", consisting of workers engaged by the farmer himself, and undertaking work solely for him, under his own supervision or under that of one of his men.
Agricultural history of Peru Much of the pre-history of Peru has been wrapped up in where the farmable land was located. The most populated coastal regions of Peru are the two parallel mountain ranges and the series of 20 to 30 rivers running through the coastal desert.
Agricultural history of the United States The agricultural history of the US is long and complex. The United States had extremely good quality fertile soil and plenty of land owned by farmers who were mostly interested in selling their goods than using them for their own personal use.
Agricultural Information Management Standards The Agricultural Information Management Standards, abbreviated to AIMS, is an initiative started by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The overall aim of the initiative is to improve coherence among agricultural information systems.
Agricultural Land Reserve The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) is a collection of land in the Canadian province of British Columbia in which agriculture is recognized as the priority use. Farming is encouraged and non-agricultural uses are controlled.
Agricultural machinery Agricultural machinery is one of the most revolutionary and impactful applications of modern technology. Given the truly elemental human need for food, agriculture has been an essential human activity almost from the beginning, and it has often driven the development of technology and machines.
Agricultural Marketing Service The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, and has programs in six commodity areas: cotton, dairy, fruit and vegetable, livestock and seed, poultry, and tobacco. These programs provide testing, standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities, and oversee marketing agreements and orders, administer research and promotion programs, and purchase commodities for federal food programs.
Agricultural Ontology Service The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) shall serve as a reference initiative that structures and standardises agricultural terminology in multiple languages for use of any number of systems in the agricultural domain and provide several services. The purpose of the AOS is to achieve more interoperability between agricultural systems.
Agricultural philosophy Agricultural Philosophy is the love of, search after and wisdom associated with agriculture, as one of humankind's founding components of civilization. In everyday usage, it is the knowledge of phenomena and their causes and effects in and explained by agriculture.
Agricultural policy Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultural product markets.
Agricultural Research In Israel Agricultural Research In Israel started around 1921 in the Agricultural Experiment Station, which since then developed into a major agricultural research center - the Agricultural Research Organization (ARO). The ARO has six institutes, two commodity-based (Plant and Animal Sciences) and four discipline-oriented institutes (Plant Protection, Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Technology & Storage of Agricultural Products and Agricultural Engineering).
Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area.
Agricultural science Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic, and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. (Veterinary science, but not animal science, is often excluded from the definition.
Agricultural show An Agricultural Show is a public event showcasing the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with the occupations of agriculture and animal husbandry. The largest of these comprise a Livestock show (a judged event or display in which breeding stock is exhibited) a trade fair and other competitions and entertainment.
Agricultural spiritualism Agricultural spiritualism or the Spirit of Agriculture refers to the idea that the concepts of food production and consumption and the essential spiritual nature of humanity are linked. It assumes that spirituality is inherent to human consciousness, is perhaps a product of it and is accessible to all who cultivate it.
Agricultural subsidy An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers to supplement their income, help manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and bolster the supply of such commodities on international markets. Examples of such commodities include wheat, feed grains (grain used as fodder, such as maize, sorghum, barley, and oats), cotton, milk, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, and oilseeds such as soybeans.
Agricultural Society Fair Grounds Agricultural Society Fair Grounds was a baseball grounds in Rockford, Illinois. It was home to the Rockford Forest Citys baseball club of the National Association during the 1871 season, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the NA as a major league.

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