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General Assembly First Committee The First Committee is one of six main committees at the General Assembly of the United Nations which deals with mattters concerning world peace. The First Committee handles all matters on Disarmament and International Security.
General Assembly Moderator The office of the Moderator of General Assembly is the highest elected position in the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Moderator is responsible for presiding over the meeting of the General Assembly, which was held annually until 2004, and on alternate years since.
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the sovereign and highest court of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and is thus the Church's governing body. The General Assembly normally meets annually, during the first full week in June.
General Assistance General Assistance (also known as General Relief) is a term used in the United States to denote welfare programs that benefit adults without dependents (single persons, or less commonly, childless married couples) as opposed to families with children, who receive assistance from the federal program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and, since 1996, officially known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
General Association of Baptists Though the annual meeting of this group is denominated the General Association of Baptists, they are most widely known as the Duck River and Kindred Associations of Baptists. Other names associated with these churches are the Baptist Church of Christ, The Baptists, and Separate Baptists (though they are not directly related to the Separate Baptists in Christ).
General Association of International Sports Federations The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) was formed to promote communication and cooperation among various international sports federations. Twenty-six such international sports associations participated in the founding of GAISF in 1967; today more than 100 sports are represented.
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) - one of several Baptist groups in North America retaining the name "Regular Baptist". The impact of modernism on the Northern Baptist Convention (now called American Baptist Churches in the USA) led to the eventual withdrawal of a number of conservative and fundamentalist churches.
General Belgrano Bridge The General Manuel Belgrano Bridge is a road bridge that joins the Argentine cities of Corrientes (capital of the Corrientes Province in the Mesopotamia) and Resistencia (capital of Chaco) over the course of the Paraná River (near the confluence with the Paraguay River). It was opened in May 10, 1973.
General Binding Corporation General Binding Corporation (NASDAQ: GBND) was an office supplies manufacturer with many highly recognized global brands for binding, lamination, and display. The company is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.
General Bravo, Nuevo LeĂłn General Bravo is a municipality and also the name of its main population center and seat of government in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. It is named after Nicolas Bravo, a heroe of the Mexican War of Independence.
General circuit theory Many problems are naturally formulated in terms of objects and connections between them. Finding the best route through the city can be solved by analyzing the graphical representation of the terrain and the built environment.
General conference (Mormonism) In Mormonism, a General Conference is a meeting meant for instruction of all members of the Latter Day Saint faith. General Conferences have been a regular part of the Latter Day Saint movement since June 9, 1830, when Joseph Smith, Jr.
General conference (United Methodist Church) The General Conference of The United Methodist Church is the denomination's top legislative body for all matters affecting the United Methodist connection. By definition, it has no administrative or executive power.
General contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or other facility. A general contractor is defined as such if it is the signatory as the builder of the prime construction contract for the project.
General coordinate invariance As opposed to Special Relativity, where the laws of physics are invariant under coordinate transformations between two inertial frames, the achievement of General Relativity is to dispose of this distinguishment of the inertial frame.
General Certificate of Education The General Certificate of Education or GCE is a secondary-level academic qualification, which was used in Britain and continues to be used in some former British colonies. It is often divided into two levels: Ordinary level (O-level) (replaced in 1986 by GCSE) and Advanced level (A-Level), although other categories exist.
General Certificate of Secondary Education The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is the name of a set of British qualifications, taken by secondary school students, at age of 14-16 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (in Scotland, the equivalent is the Standard Grade). The education systems of other British territories, such as Gibraltar, also use the qualifications as supplied by the same examination boards.
General Classification The General Classification (or the GC) in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest time when all the stage results are added together.
General College Truth Movement The General College Truth Movement (GCTM) was a briefly lived but large group that opposed the closure of the General College at the University of Minnesota. The group was founded on April 16, 2005, and consisted of U of M students, staff and faculty, as well as some community members and high school students.
General Computer General Computer (also see General Computer Corporation) was a computer peripheral company whose main product was the HyperDrive, the first internal hard disk for the original Apple Macintosh computer. The product was unusual because the Macintosh did not have any internal interface for hard disks.
General Computers Founded in March 2001, General Computers, Inc. specialises in building customized IT products but has recently expanded in to the game development business with its partnership with Smiling Gator Productions to release the XORG game Twilight War: After the Fall
General Confederation of Labour (Argentina) The General Confederation of Labour (ConfederaciĂłn General del Trabajo de la RepĂşblica Argentina, CGT) is a national trade union center of Argentina founded on September 27, 1930 as the result of the merge of the USA (UniĂłn Sindical Argentina) and the COA (ConfederaciĂłn Obrera Argentina) trade union centers.
General Confederation of Labour (Portugal) The General Confederation of Labour (Portuguese: Confederação Geral do Trabalho, or CGT) was a former Portuguese labour union confederation. The General Confederation of Labour had its roots in the National Worker's Union and was founded in September 13 of 1919.
General Confederation of Workers (Mexico) The ConfederaciĂłn General de Trabajadores (General Confederation of Workers, CGT) is a federation of labor unions in Mexico. It was founded in February 1921 by anarchists, syndicalists and others on the far left who opposed the more moderate, pro-government ConfederaciĂłn Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM).
General Conference In the United Nations system of specialized agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency or UNESCO, General Conferences are the recurring meetings of Member States. General Conference sessions are usually held yearly or biennially (although other frequencies are possible) at the headquarters of the Agency.
General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church was an association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join together in order to pursue common goals such as higher education and mission work.
General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. The General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. was organized in 1935 as the Church of the Full Gospel, Inc, by members of several Free Will Baptist churches, under the leadership of William Howard Carter.
General Conference on Weights and Measures The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM, never GCWM). It is one of the three organizations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) of 1875.
General Congregation The highest authority in the Society of Jesus is the General Congregation, an assembly of the Jesuit representatives from all parts of the world. A general congregation is always summoned on the death or resignation of the administrative head of the order—called the Superior General—to choose his successor, and it may be called at other times if circumstances warrant.
General Council (Scottish university) The General Council of an ancient university in Scotland is the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of each university. They were instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, but each has had its constitution and organisation considerably altered by subsequent statutes.
General Council of Bucharest The General Council of Bucharest (Consiliul General al Municipiului BucureĹźti in Romanian) is the legislative body of the Municipality of Bucharest, and is made up of 55 councillors elected every four years. Together with the Mayor of Bucharest and the Vice-Mayor, the General Council makes up the General City Hall of Bucharest, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.
General Council of the Assemblies of God of the United States The General Council of the Assemblies of God USA, is a Pentecostal denomination headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. It is the tenth largest and fastest growing denomination in the United States , while internationally a part of the world's largest Pentecostal denomination, the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, which has a global adherence of 52.
General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain The General Council of the Judicial Power is the autonomous institution which governs all the judicial instances of Spain, such as tribunals, courts, and judges, as it is established by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, article 122. The GCJP does not act as a Tribunal itself.
General Council of the University of St Andrews The General Council of the University of St Andrews is the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It was instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, but its constitution and organisation have been considerably altered by subsequent statutes.
General denial In pleading, a general denial is a denial that relates to all allegations which are not otherwise pleaded to. Many legal systems provide that in a statement of defence, any allegation made by the plaintiff which is not traversed (ie.
General duty clause The General Duty Clause of the United States Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSHA") states that an employer has a general duty to "furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or physical harm to his employees." 29 U.
General Defense Command The General Defense Command or General Defense Headquarters (Japanese, Boei Soshireibu), as part of the Imperial Japanese Army, was formed to control all units of the Japan Defense Army, located in Japan, and the Korean Army and the Formosa Army. It was created in 1941 and was responsible to the Emperor via the Imperial General Headquarters.
General Dental Council The General Dental Council (GDC) is a United Kingdom organisation which regulates all dental professionals in the country. Established in 1956, and currently under the Dentists Act of 1984, it keeps an up-to-date register of all qualified dentists and professionals complementary to dentistry such as: dental hygienist, dental therapist, dental nurses, dental technician and clinical dental technicians.
General Douglas MacArthur Handicap General Douglas MacArthur Handicap has been run at Belmont Park in New York since 1982 for New York breds, aged three-years-old and up. An ungraded stakes race of onemile on the dirt, it offers a purse of $100,000.
General Dutch Fascist League The General Dutch Fascist League (in Dutch Algemeene Nederlandsche Fascisten Bond) was a minor Dutch fascist party founded in 1932. The party sought to create a volksfascisme, although they failed to fully define this aim and were considered closer to Mussolini than Hitler despite their rhetoric.
General education requirements General Education Requirements are classes that fulfill the basic curricula for a body of higher education. These requirements are consistent across academic departments and usually include classes in writing, English, appreciation of the arts, mathematics and sciences.
General election A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation) The island of Newfoundland, as a British colony and dominion, held 28 General Elections for its House of Assembly. In 1934 the dominion surrendered its constitution to the Crown and ceased to have a legislature.
General electric cj610 The General Electric CJ610 is a small single-shaft turbojet engine, capable of generating up to 2950 lbf (18 kN) of dry thrust or more, with an afterburner. It is a licensed version of the military J-85 series of engines, also built by General Electric.
General epistles General epistles (also called Catholic Epistles) are books in the New Testament in the form of letters. They are termed "general" because for the most part their intended audience seems to be Christians in general rather than individual persons or congregations as is the case with the Pauline epistles.
General Educational Development The General Educational Development Test, or GED, is a test that certifies the taker has attained American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. To pass the GED, the test taker must perform in at least the 40th percent of high school seniors nationwide, though individual states can set their own requirements for passing.
General Electors (Fiji) "General Electors" is the term used in Fiji to identify citizens of voting age who belong, in most cases, to ethnic minorities. The Constitution defines General Electors as all Fijian citizens who are not registered as being of Fijian, Indian, or Rotuman descent.
General Electric Building The General Electric Building is a historic skyscraper in Midtown New York City, United States, at 570 Lexington Avenue (southwest corner of Lexington and 51st Street). Originally known as the "RCA Victor Building" when designed by Cross and Cross in 1931, and sometimes known by its address to avoid confusion with the later GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center.
General Electric CF6 The General Electric TF39 and CF6 family of high-bypass turbofan engines are the most popular large aircraft turbines in the world, powering civil and military widebodies from a variety of manufacturers. They also form the basis for the LM2500, LM5000 and LM6000 marine turboshafts.
General Electric GE-36 The General Electric GE-36 engine was an experimental aeroengine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop, known as an Unducted Fan (UDF) or Propfan. The GE-36 was developed by General Electric Aircraft Engines.
General Electric GE90 General Electric GE90 is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines built by General Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE) for the Boeing 777, with thrust ranging from 74,000 to 115,000 lbf (329 to 512 kN). It was first introduced in November 1995 on British Airways' 777s, and is only available on the 777.
General Electric GEnx The General Electric GEnx (General Electric Next-generation) is an advanced turbofan under development by GE-Aviation for the Boeing 787. After the initial unveiling, GE Aviation decided to also offer the engine for the Airbus A350 XWB and Boeing 747-8.
General Electric J31 The General Electric J31 was the first jet engine produced in quantity in the United States, essentially a production version of the prototype Whittle W.1 that had been sent to the US after the Tizard Mission successes.
General Electric J79 The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter aircraft and bomber aircraft. Produced by General Electric Aircraft Engines, it was one of the first US-designed engines to outperform designs from the United Kingdom , which had previously led in the jet field.
General Electric TF34/CF34 The General Electric TF34 is a military turbofan engine used on the A-10 Thunderbolt and S-3 Viking. Developed by GE's GE Aircraft Engines division during the late 1960s, the original engine comprises a single stage fan, driven by a 4-stage LP turbine, supercharging a 14-stage HP compressor, driven by a 2-stage HP turbine.
General Electric YF120 The General Electric YF120 was an advanced military engine designed by GE Aircraft Engines in the late 1980s/early 1990s for the United States Air Force Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) project (which resulted in the F-22 Raptor). GE lost the engine competition for this aircraft to Pratt & Whitney's F119
General Emergency Signal The General Emergency Signal is a signal used on board Princess Cruise Ships in times of emergency. When the ship is in port, passengers have a GES Drill in case of actual emergencies, such as the Star Princess fire.
General Encyclopedia of Yugoslavian Lexicographic Institute General Encyclopedia of Yugoslavian Lexicographic Institute (Serbo-Croatian: Opća enciklopedija Jugoslavenskog leksikografskog zavoda) in 8 volumes was published in Zagreb from 1977 to 1982. It is third edition of the same encyclopedia, first two editions published under name "Enciklopedija leksikografskog zavoda" (trans.
General English Proficiency Test The General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) is a test of English] [[language proficiency that was commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999. The GEPT was developed by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taipei], [[Taiwan and was first administered in 2002.
General Escobedo, Nuevo LeĂłn (municipality) The Municipality of General Escobedo (aka Municipality of Escobedo) is one of the 51 subdivisions of the State of Nuevo LeĂłn. Municipalities are named after its municipal seat, hence the municipal seat of the Municipality of General Escobedo is the City of Escobedo.
General Exhibition A General Exhibition is a Western Australia Tertiary Entrance Examination award which is awarded to the top forty eligible students with the highest Curriculum Council Award scores based on the average of five Tertiary Entrance Rank Subject scaled marks with at least two of each List A and List B.
General feature format The general feature format (gene-finding format, generic feature format, GFF) is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences. The filename extension associated with such files is .
General fitness training General fitness training works towards broad goals of overall health and well-being, rather than narrow goals of sport competition, larger muscles or concerns over appearance. A regular moderate workout regimen and healthy diet can improve general appearance markers of good health such as muscle tone, healthy skin, hair and nails, while preventing age or lifestyle-related reductions in health and the series of heart and organ failures that accompany inactivity and poor diet.
General frame In logic, general frames (or simply frames) are Kripke frames with an additional structure, which are used to model modal and intermediate logics. The general frame semantics combines the main virtues of Kripke semantics and algebraic semantics: it shares the transparent geometrical insight of the former, and robust completeness of the latter.
General Federation of Trade Unions (Syria) The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is the sole national trade union center in Syria, it was founded in 1948. By a 1968 decree establishing a single-trade-union system, all trade unions in the country are required to be affiliated to the GFTU, and the GFTU has the power to dissolve the executive committee of any union.
General Federation of Trade Unions (UK) The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions".
General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)/Summary The General Federation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1899 in response to the demand for a more centralised trade union structure that would enable a more militant approach to be taken to fighting the employer and even achieving the socialist transformation of society.
General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain The General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain (GFWTUB) is a national trade union federation in Bahrain. It was established in 2002 when the King created the Workers Trade Union Law granting workers the right to organize collectively.
General Foods General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established by Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 - May 9, 1914) as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods Corporation was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions.
General Game Playing General Game Playing refers to the design of Artificial Intelligence programs to be able to play more than one game successfully. For many games like chess, computers are programmed to play these games using a specific set of Artificial Intelligence instructions, which can not be transferred to another context.
General George Handicap The General George Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Laurel Park in Laurel, Maryland each year. The Grade II race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race seven furlongs on the dirt.
General German Workers' Association The General German Workers' Association, in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht's SDAP to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, what is now the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The ADAV was the first German Labour Party even before Germany had united as the German Empire.
General Glory General Glory is a DC Comics character who appeared in numerous DC Comics from the 1990s. He was mostly used by writers as parody of Marvel's Captain America with exaggerated "patriotic values" and a sidekick called Ernie, who was similar to Bucky.
General Government The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement fĂĽr die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in territories of Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. The term is also applied, though not strictly correctly, to the territory administered by the General Government.
General Grant National Memorial General Grant National Memorial is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902).
General Graphics Interface The GGI Project (GGI - General Graphics Interface), is an active Free software project that aims to develop a reliable, stable and fast FOSS graphics system that works everywhere. Allowing for any program using GGI to run on any platform supported by it, requiring at most a recompile.
General Grubozaboyshikov General Grubozaboyschikov (Генерал Đ“Ń€Ńбозабойщиков) (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Colonel-GeneralCommentary Magazine - James Bond Unmasked) is a fictional antagonist in the James Bond series, the head of SMERSH in From Russia with Love. In some editions of the book, a prelude is added in which Fleming claims that General Grubozaboyschikov is a real person, (He refers to him as "General G.
General Hospital General Hospital is the longest-running daytime American soap opera on the American Broadcasting Company television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West and Sunset-Gower Studios).
General Cheng General Cheng Sayavong is a general of the Lao People's Revolutionary Army and head of the Borisat Phattana Khed Phudoi (BPKP) or in English, the Mountainous Areas Development Company (MADC). He is one of the most powerful men in Laos, though he has not been known to dabble in national politics.
General Chinese General Chinese (GC) is a phonetic system invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major Chinese dialects. It can also be used for the Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese pronunciations of Chinese characters, and challenges the claim that Chinese characters are required for interdialectal communication in written Chinese.
General Church of the New Jerusalem The General Church of the New Jerusalem (also referred to as the General Church or just simply the New Church) is an international church based in Bryn Athyn, PA, and based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg (often called the Writings for the New Church or just the Writings). The General Church of the New Jerusalem distinguishes itself from other Swedenborgian churches by teaching that the Writings for the New Church are the Heavenly Doctrine revealed by the Lord in His Second Coming and have authority equal to the Old and New Testaments.
General incorporation law A general incorporation law allows corporations to be formed without a charter from the legislature. It also refers to a law enabling a certain type of corporation, such as a railroad, to exercise eminent domain and other special rights without a charter from the legislature.
General insurance General insurance policies, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance typically comprises any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance.
General intellect General intellect - crucial factor in production, according to Karl Marx; a combination of technological expertise and social intellect, or general social knowledge - increasing importance of machinery in social organization.
General intelligence factor The general intelligence factor (abbreviated g) is a widely accepted but controversial construct used in the field of psychology (see also psychometrics) to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligence tests. The phrase "g theory" refers to hypotheses and results regarding g's biological nature, stability/malleability, relevance to real-world tasks, and other inquiries.
General Idea General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994, initially in Toronto; from 1986 through 1993 they divided their time between Toronto and New York before returning to Toronto for the last few months of their time together. Pioneers of conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and a prominent influence on later generations of artists.
General Instruction of the Roman Missal The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) - in the Latin original, Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR) - is the detailed document governing the celebration of Mass of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, and is printed at the start of recent editions of the Roman Missal.
General Instrument General Instrument (GI) was a diversified electronics manufacturer which specialised in semiconductors and cable television equipment. The company was active until 1997, when it split into General Semiconductor (power semiconductors), CommScope and NextLevel Systems (the cable and satellite TV division, which later reverted to GI name).
General Instrument AY-3-8910 The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers. The 8910 and its variants became popular chips in many arcade games, and was used on, among others, the Intellivision and Vectrex video game consoles and the MSX, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Oric 1 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128/+2/+3 home computers as well as the Mockingboard sound card for the Apple II family.
General Intelligence and Security Service Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD), formerly known as the BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, Domestic Security Service) is the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands. The office is in Leidschendam-Voorburg.
General Intelligence Directorate The Cuban General Intelligence Directorate (DirecciĂłn General de Inteligencia), or DGI, is the main state intelligence agency of the Cuban government. The DGI was founded in late 1961 by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior shortly after the revolutionaries took power in 1959.
General journal The general journal is a book of original entry where double entry bookkeeping entries are recorded by debiting one account and crediting another account with the same amount. The amount debited and the amount credited should always be equal.
General jurisdiction A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds - criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth. Most United States federal courts are courts of general jurisdiction, although the U.
General Jewish Labor Union The General Jewish Labour Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, in Yiddish the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (×Ö·×ś×’×ž×˛Ö·× ×˘×¨ ײדישער ×ַרבײ××˘×¨×ˇ×‘×•× ×“ ×ין לי××Ö·, פוילין ×ון רוסל×Ö·× ×“), generally called The Bund (×‘×•× ×“) or the Jewish Labor Bund, was a Jewish political party operating in several European countries between the 1890s and the 1930s. Members of the Bund were called Bundists.
General JosĂ© de San MartĂn, Chaco General JosĂ© de San MartĂn is a city in the north-east of the . It is named after JosĂ© de San MartĂn, the Argentine general that played a major role in South America's fight for independence from Spain (see for example Argentine War of Independence).
General ledger The general ledger, sometimes known as the nominal ledger, is the main accounting record of a business which uses double-entry bookkeeping. It will usually include accounts for such items as current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, revenue and expense items, gains and losses.
General linear group In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of nĂ—n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication. This forms a group, because the product of two invertible matrices is again invertible, and the inverse of an invertible matrix is invertible.
General Lamadrid General Lamadrid are a football club from Villa Devoto in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They currently play in Primera C Metropolitana, which is the regionalised fourth tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.
General Land Office The General Land Office, a former agency of the United States government, was created in 1812 to take over functions previously conducted by the United States Department of the Treasury relating to the public domain. It surveyed and sold the public domain in the West and administered the Homestead Act and the Preemption Act.
General Land Office Building (Austin, Texas) The General Land Office Building in Austin, Texas is the oldest surviving state government office building in the city, and the first building designed by a university-trained architect (German architect Christoph Conrad Stremme). The building features a dramatic medieval castle style known as Rundbogenstil, or "rounded arch" around the windows and doors.
General Assembly Moderator The office of the Moderator of General Assembly is the highest elected position in the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Moderator is responsible for presiding over the meeting of the General Assembly, which was held annually until 2004, and on alternate years since.
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the sovereign and highest court of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and is thus the Church's governing body. The General Assembly normally meets annually, during the first full week in June.
General Assistance General Assistance (also known as General Relief) is a term used in the United States to denote welfare programs that benefit adults without dependents (single persons, or less commonly, childless married couples) as opposed to families with children, who receive assistance from the federal program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and, since 1996, officially known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
General Association of Baptists Though the annual meeting of this group is denominated the General Association of Baptists, they are most widely known as the Duck River and Kindred Associations of Baptists. Other names associated with these churches are the Baptist Church of Christ, The Baptists, and Separate Baptists (though they are not directly related to the Separate Baptists in Christ).
General Association of International Sports Federations The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) was formed to promote communication and cooperation among various international sports federations. Twenty-six such international sports associations participated in the founding of GAISF in 1967; today more than 100 sports are represented.
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) - one of several Baptist groups in North America retaining the name "Regular Baptist". The impact of modernism on the Northern Baptist Convention (now called American Baptist Churches in the USA) led to the eventual withdrawal of a number of conservative and fundamentalist churches.
General Belgrano Bridge The General Manuel Belgrano Bridge is a road bridge that joins the Argentine cities of Corrientes (capital of the Corrientes Province in the Mesopotamia) and Resistencia (capital of Chaco) over the course of the Paraná River (near the confluence with the Paraguay River). It was opened in May 10, 1973.
General Binding Corporation General Binding Corporation (NASDAQ: GBND) was an office supplies manufacturer with many highly recognized global brands for binding, lamination, and display. The company is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.
General Bravo, Nuevo LeĂłn General Bravo is a municipality and also the name of its main population center and seat of government in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. It is named after Nicolas Bravo, a heroe of the Mexican War of Independence.
General circuit theory Many problems are naturally formulated in terms of objects and connections between them. Finding the best route through the city can be solved by analyzing the graphical representation of the terrain and the built environment.
General conference (Mormonism) In Mormonism, a General Conference is a meeting meant for instruction of all members of the Latter Day Saint faith. General Conferences have been a regular part of the Latter Day Saint movement since June 9, 1830, when Joseph Smith, Jr.
General conference (United Methodist Church) The General Conference of The United Methodist Church is the denomination's top legislative body for all matters affecting the United Methodist connection. By definition, it has no administrative or executive power.
General contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or other facility. A general contractor is defined as such if it is the signatory as the builder of the prime construction contract for the project.
General coordinate invariance As opposed to Special Relativity, where the laws of physics are invariant under coordinate transformations between two inertial frames, the achievement of General Relativity is to dispose of this distinguishment of the inertial frame.
General Certificate of Education The General Certificate of Education or GCE is a secondary-level academic qualification, which was used in Britain and continues to be used in some former British colonies. It is often divided into two levels: Ordinary level (O-level) (replaced in 1986 by GCSE) and Advanced level (A-Level), although other categories exist.
General Certificate of Secondary Education The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is the name of a set of British qualifications, taken by secondary school students, at age of 14-16 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (in Scotland, the equivalent is the Standard Grade). The education systems of other British territories, such as Gibraltar, also use the qualifications as supplied by the same examination boards.
General Classification The General Classification (or the GC) in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest time when all the stage results are added together.
General College Truth Movement The General College Truth Movement (GCTM) was a briefly lived but large group that opposed the closure of the General College at the University of Minnesota. The group was founded on April 16, 2005, and consisted of U of M students, staff and faculty, as well as some community members and high school students.
General Computer General Computer (also see General Computer Corporation) was a computer peripheral company whose main product was the HyperDrive, the first internal hard disk for the original Apple Macintosh computer. The product was unusual because the Macintosh did not have any internal interface for hard disks.
General Computers Founded in March 2001, General Computers, Inc. specialises in building customized IT products but has recently expanded in to the game development business with its partnership with Smiling Gator Productions to release the XORG game Twilight War: After the Fall
General Confederation of Labour (Argentina) The General Confederation of Labour (ConfederaciĂłn General del Trabajo de la RepĂşblica Argentina, CGT) is a national trade union center of Argentina founded on September 27, 1930 as the result of the merge of the USA (UniĂłn Sindical Argentina) and the COA (ConfederaciĂłn Obrera Argentina) trade union centers.
General Confederation of Labour (Portugal) The General Confederation of Labour (Portuguese: Confederação Geral do Trabalho, or CGT) was a former Portuguese labour union confederation. The General Confederation of Labour had its roots in the National Worker's Union and was founded in September 13 of 1919.
General Confederation of Workers (Mexico) The ConfederaciĂłn General de Trabajadores (General Confederation of Workers, CGT) is a federation of labor unions in Mexico. It was founded in February 1921 by anarchists, syndicalists and others on the far left who opposed the more moderate, pro-government ConfederaciĂłn Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM).
General Conference In the United Nations system of specialized agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency or UNESCO, General Conferences are the recurring meetings of Member States. General Conference sessions are usually held yearly or biennially (although other frequencies are possible) at the headquarters of the Agency.
General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church was an association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join together in order to pursue common goals such as higher education and mission work.
General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. The General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. was organized in 1935 as the Church of the Full Gospel, Inc, by members of several Free Will Baptist churches, under the leadership of William Howard Carter.
General Conference on Weights and Measures The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM, never GCWM). It is one of the three organizations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) of 1875.
General Congregation The highest authority in the Society of Jesus is the General Congregation, an assembly of the Jesuit representatives from all parts of the world. A general congregation is always summoned on the death or resignation of the administrative head of the order—called the Superior General—to choose his successor, and it may be called at other times if circumstances warrant.
General Council (Scottish university) The General Council of an ancient university in Scotland is the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of each university. They were instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, but each has had its constitution and organisation considerably altered by subsequent statutes.
General Council of Bucharest The General Council of Bucharest (Consiliul General al Municipiului BucureĹźti in Romanian) is the legislative body of the Municipality of Bucharest, and is made up of 55 councillors elected every four years. Together with the Mayor of Bucharest and the Vice-Mayor, the General Council makes up the General City Hall of Bucharest, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.
General Council of the Assemblies of God of the United States The General Council of the Assemblies of God USA, is a Pentecostal denomination headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. It is the tenth largest and fastest growing denomination in the United States , while internationally a part of the world's largest Pentecostal denomination, the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, which has a global adherence of 52.
General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain The General Council of the Judicial Power is the autonomous institution which governs all the judicial instances of Spain, such as tribunals, courts, and judges, as it is established by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, article 122. The GCJP does not act as a Tribunal itself.
General Council of the University of St Andrews The General Council of the University of St Andrews is the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It was instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, but its constitution and organisation have been considerably altered by subsequent statutes.
General denial In pleading, a general denial is a denial that relates to all allegations which are not otherwise pleaded to. Many legal systems provide that in a statement of defence, any allegation made by the plaintiff which is not traversed (ie.
General duty clause The General Duty Clause of the United States Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSHA") states that an employer has a general duty to "furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or physical harm to his employees." 29 U.
General Defense Command The General Defense Command or General Defense Headquarters (Japanese, Boei Soshireibu), as part of the Imperial Japanese Army, was formed to control all units of the Japan Defense Army, located in Japan, and the Korean Army and the Formosa Army. It was created in 1941 and was responsible to the Emperor via the Imperial General Headquarters.
General Dental Council The General Dental Council (GDC) is a United Kingdom organisation which regulates all dental professionals in the country. Established in 1956, and currently under the Dentists Act of 1984, it keeps an up-to-date register of all qualified dentists and professionals complementary to dentistry such as: dental hygienist, dental therapist, dental nurses, dental technician and clinical dental technicians.
General Douglas MacArthur Handicap General Douglas MacArthur Handicap has been run at Belmont Park in New York since 1982 for New York breds, aged three-years-old and up. An ungraded stakes race of onemile on the dirt, it offers a purse of $100,000.
General Dutch Fascist League The General Dutch Fascist League (in Dutch Algemeene Nederlandsche Fascisten Bond) was a minor Dutch fascist party founded in 1932. The party sought to create a volksfascisme, although they failed to fully define this aim and were considered closer to Mussolini than Hitler despite their rhetoric.
General education requirements General Education Requirements are classes that fulfill the basic curricula for a body of higher education. These requirements are consistent across academic departments and usually include classes in writing, English, appreciation of the arts, mathematics and sciences.
General election A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation) The island of Newfoundland, as a British colony and dominion, held 28 General Elections for its House of Assembly. In 1934 the dominion surrendered its constitution to the Crown and ceased to have a legislature.
General electric cj610 The General Electric CJ610 is a small single-shaft turbojet engine, capable of generating up to 2950 lbf (18 kN) of dry thrust or more, with an afterburner. It is a licensed version of the military J-85 series of engines, also built by General Electric.
General epistles General epistles (also called Catholic Epistles) are books in the New Testament in the form of letters. They are termed "general" because for the most part their intended audience seems to be Christians in general rather than individual persons or congregations as is the case with the Pauline epistles.
General Educational Development The General Educational Development Test, or GED, is a test that certifies the taker has attained American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. To pass the GED, the test taker must perform in at least the 40th percent of high school seniors nationwide, though individual states can set their own requirements for passing.
General Electors (Fiji) "General Electors" is the term used in Fiji to identify citizens of voting age who belong, in most cases, to ethnic minorities. The Constitution defines General Electors as all Fijian citizens who are not registered as being of Fijian, Indian, or Rotuman descent.
General Electric Building The General Electric Building is a historic skyscraper in Midtown New York City, United States, at 570 Lexington Avenue (southwest corner of Lexington and 51st Street). Originally known as the "RCA Victor Building" when designed by Cross and Cross in 1931, and sometimes known by its address to avoid confusion with the later GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center.
General Electric CF6 The General Electric TF39 and CF6 family of high-bypass turbofan engines are the most popular large aircraft turbines in the world, powering civil and military widebodies from a variety of manufacturers. They also form the basis for the LM2500, LM5000 and LM6000 marine turboshafts.
General Electric GE-36 The General Electric GE-36 engine was an experimental aeroengine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop, known as an Unducted Fan (UDF) or Propfan. The GE-36 was developed by General Electric Aircraft Engines.
General Electric GE90 General Electric GE90 is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines built by General Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE) for the Boeing 777, with thrust ranging from 74,000 to 115,000 lbf (329 to 512 kN). It was first introduced in November 1995 on British Airways' 777s, and is only available on the 777.
General Electric GEnx The General Electric GEnx (General Electric Next-generation) is an advanced turbofan under development by GE-Aviation for the Boeing 787. After the initial unveiling, GE Aviation decided to also offer the engine for the Airbus A350 XWB and Boeing 747-8.
General Electric J31 The General Electric J31 was the first jet engine produced in quantity in the United States, essentially a production version of the prototype Whittle W.1 that had been sent to the US after the Tizard Mission successes.
General Electric J79 The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter aircraft and bomber aircraft. Produced by General Electric Aircraft Engines, it was one of the first US-designed engines to outperform designs from the United Kingdom , which had previously led in the jet field.
General Electric TF34/CF34 The General Electric TF34 is a military turbofan engine used on the A-10 Thunderbolt and S-3 Viking. Developed by GE's GE Aircraft Engines division during the late 1960s, the original engine comprises a single stage fan, driven by a 4-stage LP turbine, supercharging a 14-stage HP compressor, driven by a 2-stage HP turbine.
General Electric YF120 The General Electric YF120 was an advanced military engine designed by GE Aircraft Engines in the late 1980s/early 1990s for the United States Air Force Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) project (which resulted in the F-22 Raptor). GE lost the engine competition for this aircraft to Pratt & Whitney's F119
General Emergency Signal The General Emergency Signal is a signal used on board Princess Cruise Ships in times of emergency. When the ship is in port, passengers have a GES Drill in case of actual emergencies, such as the Star Princess fire.
General Encyclopedia of Yugoslavian Lexicographic Institute General Encyclopedia of Yugoslavian Lexicographic Institute (Serbo-Croatian: Opća enciklopedija Jugoslavenskog leksikografskog zavoda) in 8 volumes was published in Zagreb from 1977 to 1982. It is third edition of the same encyclopedia, first two editions published under name "Enciklopedija leksikografskog zavoda" (trans.
General English Proficiency Test The General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) is a test of English] [[language proficiency that was commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999. The GEPT was developed by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taipei], [[Taiwan and was first administered in 2002.
General Escobedo, Nuevo LeĂłn (municipality) The Municipality of General Escobedo (aka Municipality of Escobedo) is one of the 51 subdivisions of the State of Nuevo LeĂłn. Municipalities are named after its municipal seat, hence the municipal seat of the Municipality of General Escobedo is the City of Escobedo.
General Exhibition A General Exhibition is a Western Australia Tertiary Entrance Examination award which is awarded to the top forty eligible students with the highest Curriculum Council Award scores based on the average of five Tertiary Entrance Rank Subject scaled marks with at least two of each List A and List B.
General feature format The general feature format (gene-finding format, generic feature format, GFF) is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences. The filename extension associated with such files is .
General fitness training General fitness training works towards broad goals of overall health and well-being, rather than narrow goals of sport competition, larger muscles or concerns over appearance. A regular moderate workout regimen and healthy diet can improve general appearance markers of good health such as muscle tone, healthy skin, hair and nails, while preventing age or lifestyle-related reductions in health and the series of heart and organ failures that accompany inactivity and poor diet.
General frame In logic, general frames (or simply frames) are Kripke frames with an additional structure, which are used to model modal and intermediate logics. The general frame semantics combines the main virtues of Kripke semantics and algebraic semantics: it shares the transparent geometrical insight of the former, and robust completeness of the latter.
General Federation of Trade Unions (Syria) The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is the sole national trade union center in Syria, it was founded in 1948. By a 1968 decree establishing a single-trade-union system, all trade unions in the country are required to be affiliated to the GFTU, and the GFTU has the power to dissolve the executive committee of any union.
General Federation of Trade Unions (UK) The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions".
General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)/Summary The General Federation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1899 in response to the demand for a more centralised trade union structure that would enable a more militant approach to be taken to fighting the employer and even achieving the socialist transformation of society.
General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain The General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain (GFWTUB) is a national trade union federation in Bahrain. It was established in 2002 when the King created the Workers Trade Union Law granting workers the right to organize collectively.
General Foods General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established by Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 - May 9, 1914) as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods Corporation was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions.
General Game Playing General Game Playing refers to the design of Artificial Intelligence programs to be able to play more than one game successfully. For many games like chess, computers are programmed to play these games using a specific set of Artificial Intelligence instructions, which can not be transferred to another context.
General George Handicap The General George Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Laurel Park in Laurel, Maryland each year. The Grade II race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race seven furlongs on the dirt.
General German Workers' Association The General German Workers' Association, in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht's SDAP to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, what is now the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The ADAV was the first German Labour Party even before Germany had united as the German Empire.
General Glory General Glory is a DC Comics character who appeared in numerous DC Comics from the 1990s. He was mostly used by writers as parody of Marvel's Captain America with exaggerated "patriotic values" and a sidekick called Ernie, who was similar to Bucky.
General Government The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement fĂĽr die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in territories of Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. The term is also applied, though not strictly correctly, to the territory administered by the General Government.
General Grant National Memorial General Grant National Memorial is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902).
General Graphics Interface The GGI Project (GGI - General Graphics Interface), is an active Free software project that aims to develop a reliable, stable and fast FOSS graphics system that works everywhere. Allowing for any program using GGI to run on any platform supported by it, requiring at most a recompile.
General Grubozaboyshikov General Grubozaboyschikov (Генерал Đ“Ń€Ńбозабойщиков) (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Colonel-GeneralCommentary Magazine - James Bond Unmasked) is a fictional antagonist in the James Bond series, the head of SMERSH in From Russia with Love. In some editions of the book, a prelude is added in which Fleming claims that General Grubozaboyschikov is a real person, (He refers to him as "General G.
General Hospital General Hospital is the longest-running daytime American soap opera on the American Broadcasting Company television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West and Sunset-Gower Studios).
General Cheng General Cheng Sayavong is a general of the Lao People's Revolutionary Army and head of the Borisat Phattana Khed Phudoi (BPKP) or in English, the Mountainous Areas Development Company (MADC). He is one of the most powerful men in Laos, though he has not been known to dabble in national politics.
General Chinese General Chinese (GC) is a phonetic system invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major Chinese dialects. It can also be used for the Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese pronunciations of Chinese characters, and challenges the claim that Chinese characters are required for interdialectal communication in written Chinese.
General Church of the New Jerusalem The General Church of the New Jerusalem (also referred to as the General Church or just simply the New Church) is an international church based in Bryn Athyn, PA, and based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg (often called the Writings for the New Church or just the Writings). The General Church of the New Jerusalem distinguishes itself from other Swedenborgian churches by teaching that the Writings for the New Church are the Heavenly Doctrine revealed by the Lord in His Second Coming and have authority equal to the Old and New Testaments.
General incorporation law A general incorporation law allows corporations to be formed without a charter from the legislature. It also refers to a law enabling a certain type of corporation, such as a railroad, to exercise eminent domain and other special rights without a charter from the legislature.
General insurance General insurance policies, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance typically comprises any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance.
General intellect General intellect - crucial factor in production, according to Karl Marx; a combination of technological expertise and social intellect, or general social knowledge - increasing importance of machinery in social organization.
General intelligence factor The general intelligence factor (abbreviated g) is a widely accepted but controversial construct used in the field of psychology (see also psychometrics) to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligence tests. The phrase "g theory" refers to hypotheses and results regarding g's biological nature, stability/malleability, relevance to real-world tasks, and other inquiries.
General Idea General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994, initially in Toronto; from 1986 through 1993 they divided their time between Toronto and New York before returning to Toronto for the last few months of their time together. Pioneers of conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and a prominent influence on later generations of artists.
General Instruction of the Roman Missal The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) - in the Latin original, Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR) - is the detailed document governing the celebration of Mass of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, and is printed at the start of recent editions of the Roman Missal.
General Instrument General Instrument (GI) was a diversified electronics manufacturer which specialised in semiconductors and cable television equipment. The company was active until 1997, when it split into General Semiconductor (power semiconductors), CommScope and NextLevel Systems (the cable and satellite TV division, which later reverted to GI name).
General Instrument AY-3-8910 The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers. The 8910 and its variants became popular chips in many arcade games, and was used on, among others, the Intellivision and Vectrex video game consoles and the MSX, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Oric 1 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128/+2/+3 home computers as well as the Mockingboard sound card for the Apple II family.
General Intelligence and Security Service Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD), formerly known as the BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, Domestic Security Service) is the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands. The office is in Leidschendam-Voorburg.
General Intelligence Directorate The Cuban General Intelligence Directorate (DirecciĂłn General de Inteligencia), or DGI, is the main state intelligence agency of the Cuban government. The DGI was founded in late 1961 by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior shortly after the revolutionaries took power in 1959.
General journal The general journal is a book of original entry where double entry bookkeeping entries are recorded by debiting one account and crediting another account with the same amount. The amount debited and the amount credited should always be equal.
General jurisdiction A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds - criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth. Most United States federal courts are courts of general jurisdiction, although the U.
General Jewish Labor Union The General Jewish Labour Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, in Yiddish the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (×Ö·×ś×’×ž×˛Ö·× ×˘×¨ ײדישער ×ַרבײ××˘×¨×ˇ×‘×•× ×“ ×ין לי××Ö·, פוילין ×ון רוסל×Ö·× ×“), generally called The Bund (×‘×•× ×“) or the Jewish Labor Bund, was a Jewish political party operating in several European countries between the 1890s and the 1930s. Members of the Bund were called Bundists.
General JosĂ© de San MartĂn, Chaco General JosĂ© de San MartĂn is a city in the north-east of the . It is named after JosĂ© de San MartĂn, the Argentine general that played a major role in South America's fight for independence from Spain (see for example Argentine War of Independence).
General ledger The general ledger, sometimes known as the nominal ledger, is the main accounting record of a business which uses double-entry bookkeeping. It will usually include accounts for such items as current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, revenue and expense items, gains and losses.
General linear group In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of nĂ—n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication. This forms a group, because the product of two invertible matrices is again invertible, and the inverse of an invertible matrix is invertible.
General Lamadrid General Lamadrid are a football club from Villa Devoto in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They currently play in Primera C Metropolitana, which is the regionalised fourth tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.
General Land Office The General Land Office, a former agency of the United States government, was created in 1812 to take over functions previously conducted by the United States Department of the Treasury relating to the public domain. It surveyed and sold the public domain in the West and administered the Homestead Act and the Preemption Act.
General Land Office Building (Austin, Texas) The General Land Office Building in Austin, Texas is the oldest surviving state government office building in the city, and the first building designed by a university-trained architect (German architect Christoph Conrad Stremme). The building features a dramatic medieval castle style known as Rundbogenstil, or "rounded arch" around the windows and doors.
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