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United States military award devices United States military award devices are attachments which may be worn on various awards and decorations of the United States military. Such attachments denote special upgrades to include bravery in combat, participation in a particular operation or service in a geographical area, or multiple bestowals of the same award.
United States Marine Corps enlisted rank insignia Enlisted Marines with paygrades of E-4 and E-5 are considered Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) while those at E-6 and higher are considered Staff Noncommissioned Officers (SNCOs). The E-8 and E-9 levels each have two ranks per pay grade, each with different responsibilities.
United States Marine Corps officer rank insignia Commissioned Officers are distinguished from other officers by their commission, which is the formal written authority, issued in the name of the President of the United States, that confers the rank and authority of a Marine Officer. Commissioned officers carry the "special trust and confidence" of the President of the United States.
United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test The United States Marine Corps requires that all Marines perform a Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, every 6 months. The PFT ensures that the Marines are keeping themselves physically fit and in a state of physical readiness.
United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions Marine Reconnaissance Battalions in the United States Marine Corps, often called "Recon Marines", exist to provide information about the enemy situation to higher command via patrols behind enemy lines. The members of Recon Battalions are specialy selected through a grueling screening process at their respective Battalion, and upon their completion attend either the Basic Reconnaissance Course on the west cost or Amphibious Reconnaissance School on the east coast.
United States Marine Corps School of Infantry The School of Infantry (SOI) — SOI East (located at United States Marine Corps Base Camp Geiger, a satellite facility of Camp Lejeune) and the SOI West at Camp Pendleton — hosts the second stage of initial military training for enlisted Marines after recruit training. Marines trained at MCRD Parris Island attend SOI at Camp Geiger and Marines trained at MCRD San Diego attend SOI at Camp Pendleton.
United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR) was established on July 30, 1942 as part of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. The mission of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve was to provide qualified women for duty at shore establishments of the Marine Corps, releasing men for combat duty.
United States Marine Crucible The United States Marine Corps Crucible is the final test a Marine Corps recruit must pass before becoming a Marine. Designed to emphasize the importance of teamwork in overcoming adversity, the Crucible is a rigorous 54-hour field training exercise demanding the application of everything a recruit has learned in their previous 13 weeks of recruit training.
United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps -- the Marine "D&BC" -- performs martial and popular music for hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. The Corps of more than 80 Marine musicians, dressed in ceremonial red and white uniforms, is known world-wide as a premier musical marching unit.
United States Maritime Service The United States Maritime Service was established in 1938 under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The mission of the organization was to train officers and other men to become merchant marines.
United States Marshals Service The United States Marshals Service (USMS) (sometimes incorrectly spelled “Marshals’ Service”), a bureau within the United States Department of Justice (see ), is a federal police organization with special spheres of authority, and the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States.While the U.
United States Medical Licensing Examination The United States Medical Licensing Examination is a multi-part professional exam sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Medical doctors are required to pass before being permitted to practice medicine in the United States of America.
United States Memorials The United States has many prominent memorials and monuments within the country commemorating the past wars, leaders, and other notable events from American history. A great deal of these memorials can be found in Washington, D.
United States Merchant Marine The United States Merchant Marine comprise the merchant ships that are used to transport both imports and exports during peace time and serves as an auxiliary to the United States Navy during times of war, delivering both troops and supplies to the military, as well as goods for the welfare of the country, under hazardous conditions, usually by convoy. The Merchant Marine (called the Merchant Navy in other countries) is civilian except in times of war, when they are effectively considered military personnel governed under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936.
United States Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry.
United States Merit Systems Protection Board The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect Federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for employees against abuses by agency management.
United States Metric Board The United States Metric Board was a United States government agency set up to encourage metrication. It existed from 1975 to 1982, ending when President Ronald Reagan abolished it, largely on the recommendation of Frank Mankiewicz and Lyn Nofziger.
United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA (or Army, for NCAA purposes), is a United States Army fort and military academy. Established in 1802, it is the oldest military academy in the United States.
United States Military Academy Preparatory School The United States Military Preparatory School (USMAPS), sometimes referred to as West Point Prep, is a preparatory school for the United States Military Academy currently located at Fort Monmouth, in Eatontown, New Jersey. Formally established in 1946, its official mission is "to provide academic, military and physical instruction in a moral-ethical military environment to prepare and motivate candidates for success at the United States Military Academy.
United States Military Lands The United States Military Lands were land grants given to Continental Army servicemen by the United States Congress for service in the American Revolutionary War, in lieu of giving them pay or pensions. Beginning in 1796, Congress provided 2.
United States Military Oath of Allegiance The United States Military Oath of Allegiance is a solemn oath taken by members of the United States Armed Services on commissioning. It differs slightly from that of the oath of enlistment that enlisted members recite when they enter the service.
United States Military Pay United States Military Pay is money given to members in the United States Armed Forces. The amount of pay may vary by the member's rank, time in the military, location duty assignment, and by some special skills the member may have.
United States Minister to Hawaii The Minister to Hawai'i was an office of the United States Department of State to the Kingdom of Hawai'i during the period of 1810 to 1893. Appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of Congress, the Minister to Hawai'i was equivalent in rank to the present-day ambassador of the United States to foreign governments.
United States Mint The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The main Mint facility is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and branch facilities are located in Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California, and West Point, New York.
United States Mint Police The United States Mint Police is the law enforcement agency responsible for the protection of the United States Treasury and the United States Mint. The Mint Police is responsible for protecting over $100 billion in Treasury and other Government assets stored in facilities located throughout the United States.
United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands The United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands is an obsolete term used to collectively describe Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, all of them territories controlled by the United States by the Guano Islands Act in the Pacific Ocean.
United States Motor Company The United States Motor Company (USMC) was organized by Benjamin Briscoe in 1910 as a selling company, to represent various manufacturers. It had begun life as the International Motor Company in 1908 in an attempt to create the first major consolidation within the industry with Maxwell-Briscoe and Buick, which did not succeed.
United States national American football team The United States national american football team is the official american football team nationally of the United States. It is controlled by USA Football and will compete for the first time in the 2007 World Championship of American Football.
United States national bandy team United States national bandy team has been taking part in the Bandy World Championships since 1985, being the first nation to join apart from the four teams which had so far participated in almost all the world championships: the Soviet Union, Sweden, Finland and Norway. However, the American team has yet to make it to the championship medals.
United States national handball team The United States national handball team is the national handball team of United States and is controlled by the United States Olympic Committee. Due to disputes over funding, general lack of fiscal discipline, and accusations of incompetance, on February 14, 2006, the USOC revoked the governing duties of the sport from the United States Team Handball Federation and now assumes control of the sport in the U.
United States nationality law The Immigration and Naturalization Act sets forth the legal requirements for acquiring and losing citizenship of the United States. The requirements have become more explicit since the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, with the most recent changes made in 2001.
United States National Academies The United States National Academies comprises four organizations: the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the United States National Research Council (NRC). The National Academies are a national academy for the United States (US).
United States National Agricultural Library The United States National Agricultural Library is one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural research libraries, and serves as a National Library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture. The library has two locations, the Abraham Lincoln Building on the grounds of the Henry A.
United States National Grid The United States National Grid, officially known as the United States National Grid for Spatial Addressing (USNG), is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in United States, different from using latitude or longitude. It is similar in design to the national grid reference systems used throughout other nations.
United States National Guard The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.
United States National Chemistry Olympiad The United States National Chemistry Olympiad (or USNCO) is a contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS) used to select the four-student team that represents the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO).
United States National Library of Medicine The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. The collections of the National Library of Medicine include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.
United States National Mine Health and Safety Academy The United States National Mine Health and Safety Academy (MSHA) is a federal academy responsible for training the mine safety and health inspectors and technical support personnel of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
United States National Park National Parks in the United States is a classification of protected areas of the United States. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the world — in 1872, there was no state government to manage it, so the federal government assumed direct control.
United States National Radio Quiet Zone The United States National Radio Quiet Zone is a large area of land surrounding the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) near Green Bank, West Virginia. It is a rectangle of land approximately 13,000 square miles in size and straddles the border of Virginia and West Virginia; it was picked because it has a unique topography that screens out most incoming radio signals, allowing the Green Bank telescopes to receive signals that are otherwise too quiet to be heard over the normal radio background.
United States National Research Council The National Research Council (NRC) of the USA is the working arm of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Engineering, carrying out most of the studies done in their names.
United States National Research Council Rankings The United States National Research Council puts out a ranking of United States graduate programs about every 10 years, although the time elapsed between each new ranking has exceeded 10 years. The next rankings are expected to be published in September 2007.
United States National Security Council The White House National Security Council (NSC) in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the President. Since its inception under President Harry Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies.
United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry The United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry is a cooperative effort between US state agencies that host public sex offender registries and the US federal government. The registry is coordinated by the United States Department of Justice and operates a web site search tool allowing a user to submit a single query to obtain information about sex offenders throughout the United States.
United States National Slavery Museum The United States National Slavery Museum is a non-profit organization based in Fredericksburg, Virginia that is fundraising and campaigning to establish a national museum on slavery in America. It is planned to open in 2008 as the only museum in America among more than 16,000 that has as its primary mission education, re-education and policy formation regarding slavery in America and its enduring legacy.
United States Natural Law Party The Natural Law Party was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. Both were funded almost solely by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation, a belief which holds the view that natural law is the supreme organizing principle that governs the universe.
United States Naval Academy Cemetery The United States Naval Academy Cemetery is a cemetery at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is the resting place for many of our nation's veterans many of whom gave their life in service to their country.
United States Naval Aviator A United States Naval Aviator is a pilot in the United States Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard. Like Naval Flight Officers, prospective Naval Aviators attend Aviation Preflight Indoctorination at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida (NAS Pensacola) and are designated as Student Naval Aviators.
United States Naval Institute The United States Naval Institute is a non-profit, professional organization in the United States related to the Navy. It is based in Annapolis, MD, and publishes the magazines Proceedings and Naval History, along with many books devoted to its membership's profession.
United States Naval reactor United States Naval reactor refers to nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy. Reactors are designed by a variety of contractors, then developed and tested at one of three government owned or operated facilities (Naval Reactors Facility, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory), all under the management of the office of Naval Reactors.
United States Naval Research Laboratory The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research and advanced development. NRL has existed since 1923, when it opened under the Office of Naval Research at the instigation of Thomas Edison.
United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps The United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) is a paramilitary youth organization that serves to teach 13 to 18 years old about the sea-going military services, community service, citizenship, and an understanding of discipline and teamwork. A younger version of the NSCC, the Navy League Cadet Corps (NLCC), exists for youths between the ages of 11 and 13.
United States Naval Ship United States Naval Ship or USNS is the prefix designation given to non-combat United States Naval ships auxiliary support ships that are in service, but are crewed by civilians. Some civilians are DOD employees, others are employees of contracted-crewing companies.
United States Naval Test Pilot School The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Patuxent River), in Patuxent River, Maryland. The school provides instruction to experienced United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force pilots, flight officers, and engineers in the processes and techniques of aircraft and systems test and evaluation.
United States Navy Armed Guard The United States Navy Armed Guard (USNAG) were US Navy Gun crews consisting of Gunner's Mates, Coxswains and Boatswains, Radiomen, Signalmen, an occasional Pharmacist (Hospital Corpsman), and toward the end of the war a few radarmen serving at sea on Merchant Ships. Armed Guard crews served on ships in every theatre of the war.
United States Navy bureau system The "bureau system" of the United States Navy was the Department of the Navy's material-support organization from 1842 through 1966. The bureau chiefs were largely autonomous, reporting directly to the Secretary of the Navy and managing their respective organizations without the influence of other bureaus.
United States Navy Diver A United States Navy Diver refers to a member of the community of officer and enlisted personnel in the United States Navy who are qualified in underwater scuba and deep sea diving. In 2006, the US Navy established a new rating, Navy Diver (or ND), in the Navy's engineering/hull community.
United States Navy enlisted rate insignia United States Navy enlisted rates describe an enlisted sailors paygrade. Enlisted paygrade is a numbering system from junior enlisted member to senior, labeled E-1 through E-9, and is the same accross all five branches of the U.
United States Navy Chaplain Corps The Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy consists of ordained clergy who are commissioned Naval officers. They serve not only in the Navy, but in the United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard as well.
United States Navy Mark 12 Mod X Special Purpose Rifle The United States Navy Mark 12 Mod 0/1 Special Purpose Rifle (SPR) is a rifle that has been in service with the United States special forces in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. SPR initially stood for Special Purpose Receiver, but that nomenclature seems to have disappeared as the weapon became a stand alone weapon system, and not just an add on upper as part of proposed SOPMOD upgrades.
United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle The United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle (EBR) is an American selective fire military rifle chambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge, a variant of the Springfield Armory M14, built for use with units of United States Naval Special Warfare Command, Marine Corps Special Operations Detachment 1, and Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance.
United States Navy reserve fleets The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the activity have changed several times, the basics are constant; keep the ships afloat and sufficiently working as to be reactivated quickly in an emergency.
United States Navy Regulations United States Navy Regulations is the principal regulatory document of the Department of the Navy, endowed with the sanction of law, as to duty, responsibility, authority, distinctions and relationships of various commands, officials and individuals. Other directives issued within the Department of the Navy may not conflict with, alter or amend any provision of Navy Regulations.
United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group; otherwise known as NAVSPECWARDEVGRU, the NSWDG, or simply as DEVGRU; is the United States Navy's premier Counter-Terrorism unit. It is officially stated to have been formed after United States Navy SEAL Team SIX was disbanded and SEAL Team 8 was tasked with maritime deployments and take-downs.
United States Navy Working Capital Fund The United States Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF) is a branch of the family of United States Department of Defense (DoD) Working Capital Funds. The NWCF is a revolving fund, an account or fund that relies on sales revenue rather than direct Congressional appropriations to finance its operations.
United States Note A United States Note is a fiat paper currency that was issued directly into circulation by the United States Department of the Treasury. The notes were also known as Legal Tender Notes because of the inscription on its face stating "This Note is a Legal Tender.
United States occupation of Fallujah The US occupation of Fallujah began in April 2003, one month following the beginning of the invasion. Fallujah was one of the most peaceful areas of the country just after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and the arrival of U.
United States occupation of Haiti The first United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915 and ended in mid-August, 1934. Other occupations include ones that began in 1994 and 2004 (though these may have been partially under the UN banner, the US was the prime mover of the actions).
United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914 The United States occupation of Veracruz lasted for six months in response to the April 9, 1914, Tampico Affair. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations with the United States, related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.
United States of Africa The United States of Africa is a name sometimes given to one version of the possible future unification of Africa as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in formation to the United States of America, mirroring the idea of the United States of Europe. The idea has recently been advanced by Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi at a 2000 summit in Lomé, Togo , and by Alpha Oumar Konare, chairperson of the African Commission, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Africa Day, on May 25, 2006.
United States of America Computing Olympiad The United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO) is a computer programming competition aimed primarily at secondary school students in the United States. Participants of the USACO submit programs in one of several languages, including C, C++, Java, and Pascal, to various competitions held throughout the year.
United States of America Cricket Association The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in the United States. USACA sponsors the United States cricket team that is recognized by the International Cricket Council, and has been an associate member of that body since 1965.
United States of America Mathematical Olympiad The United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) is a prestigious high school mathematics competition held annually in the United States. Since its debut in 1972, it has served as the final round of the AMC series of contests.
United States of America Mathematical Talent Search The United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is a mathematics competition open to all United States students in or below high school. Professor George Berzsenyi initiated the contest in 1989 under joint sponsorship of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications.
United States of America non-profit laws Laws regarding non-profit organizations in the United States of America relate to taxation, the special problems of an organization which does not have profit as its primary motivation, and prevention of charitable fraud. Some non-profit organizations can broadly be described as "charities" - like the American Red Cross.
United States of Belgium The United States of Belgium, (Dutch Verenigde Nederlandse Staten, French États-Belgiques-Unis) was a confederation of the Southern Netherlands which existed from January to December 1790, during a short-lived revolt against the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Other English translations are United Belgium States, United Belgian States or United Netherlands States.
United States of Colombia The United States of Colombia is the name adopted in 1863 through the Rionegro Constitution for the nation which had been known as the Republic of New Grenada since the dissolution of the federation of Great Colombia in 1830-1831 .
United States of Europe The United States of Europe is a name given to one version of the possible future unification of Europe, as a sovereign federation of states, similar to the United States of America. The analogy with the United States implies that the existing nation-states of Europe would be demoted to a status equivalent to the 50 U.
United States of Greater Austria The United States of Greater Austria (German: Vereinigte Staaten von GroĂź-Ă–sterreich) was an idea created by a group of scholars surrounding the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand that never came to pass. This specific proposal was conceived by Aurel Popovici in 1906.
United States of China United States of China (Traditional Chinese: ä¸čŹŻĺ衆國; Simplified Chinese: ä¸ĺŤŽĺ众国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Hezhongguo) is a political concept first devised in the early 1920s by Chen Jiongming of a federalized China modeled closely after the United States of America. Given the political, social and linguistic realities of China in the warlord period, Chen Jiongming believed that a federalist approach was the only feasible way to eventually establish a united, democratic republic.
United States of Indonesia The United States of Indonesia (RUSI) was a federal state to which the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty of Indonesia on 27 December 1949. This transfer ended the four-year conflict between Indonesian nationalists and the Netherlands that was fought over for control of Indonesia.
United States of North America The United States of North America (USNA) is a fictitious country in A Mind Forever Voyaging (AMFV), a science fiction text adventure game by Infocom set in the year 2031. The USNA is the result of a fictional union between the United States and Canada.
United States order of precedence The United States order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the government of the United States. The order is established by the office of the President of the United States and can be changed by the President, though in practice it is fairly established and rarely modified.
United States O class submarine The United States O class submarine was introduced shortly before the Armistice with Germany in 1918, and none saw combat, excluding O-4 and O-6. On 24 July 1918, a British steamer mistook O-4 and O-6 (SS-67) for German U-boats and fired on the submarines.
United States Office of Research Integrity The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is one of the bodies concerned with research integrity in the United States. It was created when the Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) and the Office of Scientific Integrity Review (OSIR) merged in May 1992.
United States Office of Special Counsel The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority come from three federal statutes, the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act and the Hatch Act. Its primary mission is to protect federal employees and others from "prohibited personnel practices", especially in reprisal for whistleblowing.
United States Office of the Independent Counsel United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the Congress under .
United States Oil United States Oil (Ticker USO) is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that tracks various oil investments. The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil.
United States Olympic Committee The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is a non-profit organization that serves as the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the United States and coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency and various international sports federations. Under the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, the Committee is chartered by the United States government as a monopoly.
United States Olympic Training Center A training center created specifically for Olympic athletes to come and prepare for the Olympics, but used mainly by the United States. It was built in Colorado Springs due to the high elevation level and the increase in training effectiveness due to it.
United States Open (crosswords) The United States Open was a crossword puzzle-solving tournament that lasted from 1982 to 1986. Sponsored by Games Magazine and directed by Will Shortz, it attracted thousands of potential competitors and was, along with the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, one of the two largest crossword tournaments in recent decades.
United States passport United States passports are issued to citizens and nationals of the United States of America for the purpose of international travel. They entitle the bearer to the protection of US consular officials overseas.
United States patent law United States patent law was established "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"as provided in the United States Constitution]. Congress implemented these protection as a [[First to file and first to invent|first-to-invent patent legal framework.
United States presidential election United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting at midday on Inauguration Day, which is January 20 of the year after the election.
United States presidential election debates During presidential elections in the United States, it has become customary for the main candidates (almost always the candidates of the two main parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party) to engage in a debate. The topics discussed in the debate are often the most controversial issues of the time, and some have said that elections can be won or lost based on these debates.
United States presidential election, 1796 [electoral votes by state.Because electors couldn't distinguish between their presidential and vice presidential choices until the passage of the Twelfth Amendment], the map above assumes that the presidential votes are exactly the votes for Adams or Jefferson.
United States presidential election, 1820 The United States presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed. (The previous two were the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition.
United States presidential election, 1880 The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern states. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones.
United States presidential election, 2000 The United States presidential election of 2000 was one of the most controversial and closest presidential elections in the history of the United States. It was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, the Vice President of the United States, and Republican candidate George W.
United States presidential election, 2000 Florida results The outcome of the United States presidential election, 2000 was not known for more than a month after the balloting, because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Florida presidential ballots. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Bush and 255 to Gore, with New Mexico (5), Oregon (7), and Florida (25) too close to call that evening.
United States Marine Corps enlisted rank insignia Enlisted Marines with paygrades of E-4 and E-5 are considered Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) while those at E-6 and higher are considered Staff Noncommissioned Officers (SNCOs). The E-8 and E-9 levels each have two ranks per pay grade, each with different responsibilities.
United States Marine Corps officer rank insignia Commissioned Officers are distinguished from other officers by their commission, which is the formal written authority, issued in the name of the President of the United States, that confers the rank and authority of a Marine Officer. Commissioned officers carry the "special trust and confidence" of the President of the United States.
United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test The United States Marine Corps requires that all Marines perform a Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, every 6 months. The PFT ensures that the Marines are keeping themselves physically fit and in a state of physical readiness.
United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions Marine Reconnaissance Battalions in the United States Marine Corps, often called "Recon Marines", exist to provide information about the enemy situation to higher command via patrols behind enemy lines. The members of Recon Battalions are specialy selected through a grueling screening process at their respective Battalion, and upon their completion attend either the Basic Reconnaissance Course on the west cost or Amphibious Reconnaissance School on the east coast.
United States Marine Corps School of Infantry The School of Infantry (SOI) — SOI East (located at United States Marine Corps Base Camp Geiger, a satellite facility of Camp Lejeune) and the SOI West at Camp Pendleton — hosts the second stage of initial military training for enlisted Marines after recruit training. Marines trained at MCRD Parris Island attend SOI at Camp Geiger and Marines trained at MCRD San Diego attend SOI at Camp Pendleton.
United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR) was established on July 30, 1942 as part of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. The mission of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve was to provide qualified women for duty at shore establishments of the Marine Corps, releasing men for combat duty.
United States Marine Crucible The United States Marine Corps Crucible is the final test a Marine Corps recruit must pass before becoming a Marine. Designed to emphasize the importance of teamwork in overcoming adversity, the Crucible is a rigorous 54-hour field training exercise demanding the application of everything a recruit has learned in their previous 13 weeks of recruit training.
United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps -- the Marine "D&BC" -- performs martial and popular music for hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. The Corps of more than 80 Marine musicians, dressed in ceremonial red and white uniforms, is known world-wide as a premier musical marching unit.
United States Maritime Service The United States Maritime Service was established in 1938 under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The mission of the organization was to train officers and other men to become merchant marines.
United States Marshals Service The United States Marshals Service (USMS) (sometimes incorrectly spelled “Marshals’ Service”), a bureau within the United States Department of Justice (see ), is a federal police organization with special spheres of authority, and the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States.While the U.
United States Medical Licensing Examination The United States Medical Licensing Examination is a multi-part professional exam sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Medical doctors are required to pass before being permitted to practice medicine in the United States of America.
United States Memorials The United States has many prominent memorials and monuments within the country commemorating the past wars, leaders, and other notable events from American history. A great deal of these memorials can be found in Washington, D.
United States Merchant Marine The United States Merchant Marine comprise the merchant ships that are used to transport both imports and exports during peace time and serves as an auxiliary to the United States Navy during times of war, delivering both troops and supplies to the military, as well as goods for the welfare of the country, under hazardous conditions, usually by convoy. The Merchant Marine (called the Merchant Navy in other countries) is civilian except in times of war, when they are effectively considered military personnel governed under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936.
United States Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry.
United States Merit Systems Protection Board The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect Federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for employees against abuses by agency management.
United States Metric Board The United States Metric Board was a United States government agency set up to encourage metrication. It existed from 1975 to 1982, ending when President Ronald Reagan abolished it, largely on the recommendation of Frank Mankiewicz and Lyn Nofziger.
United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA (or Army, for NCAA purposes), is a United States Army fort and military academy. Established in 1802, it is the oldest military academy in the United States.
United States Military Academy Preparatory School The United States Military Preparatory School (USMAPS), sometimes referred to as West Point Prep, is a preparatory school for the United States Military Academy currently located at Fort Monmouth, in Eatontown, New Jersey. Formally established in 1946, its official mission is "to provide academic, military and physical instruction in a moral-ethical military environment to prepare and motivate candidates for success at the United States Military Academy.
United States Military Lands The United States Military Lands were land grants given to Continental Army servicemen by the United States Congress for service in the American Revolutionary War, in lieu of giving them pay or pensions. Beginning in 1796, Congress provided 2.
United States Military Oath of Allegiance The United States Military Oath of Allegiance is a solemn oath taken by members of the United States Armed Services on commissioning. It differs slightly from that of the oath of enlistment that enlisted members recite when they enter the service.
United States Military Pay United States Military Pay is money given to members in the United States Armed Forces. The amount of pay may vary by the member's rank, time in the military, location duty assignment, and by some special skills the member may have.
United States Minister to Hawaii The Minister to Hawai'i was an office of the United States Department of State to the Kingdom of Hawai'i during the period of 1810 to 1893. Appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of Congress, the Minister to Hawai'i was equivalent in rank to the present-day ambassador of the United States to foreign governments.
United States Mint The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The main Mint facility is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and branch facilities are located in Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California, and West Point, New York.
United States Mint Police The United States Mint Police is the law enforcement agency responsible for the protection of the United States Treasury and the United States Mint. The Mint Police is responsible for protecting over $100 billion in Treasury and other Government assets stored in facilities located throughout the United States.
United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands The United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands is an obsolete term used to collectively describe Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, all of them territories controlled by the United States by the Guano Islands Act in the Pacific Ocean.
United States Motor Company The United States Motor Company (USMC) was organized by Benjamin Briscoe in 1910 as a selling company, to represent various manufacturers. It had begun life as the International Motor Company in 1908 in an attempt to create the first major consolidation within the industry with Maxwell-Briscoe and Buick, which did not succeed.
United States national American football team The United States national american football team is the official american football team nationally of the United States. It is controlled by USA Football and will compete for the first time in the 2007 World Championship of American Football.
United States national bandy team United States national bandy team has been taking part in the Bandy World Championships since 1985, being the first nation to join apart from the four teams which had so far participated in almost all the world championships: the Soviet Union, Sweden, Finland and Norway. However, the American team has yet to make it to the championship medals.
United States national handball team The United States national handball team is the national handball team of United States and is controlled by the United States Olympic Committee. Due to disputes over funding, general lack of fiscal discipline, and accusations of incompetance, on February 14, 2006, the USOC revoked the governing duties of the sport from the United States Team Handball Federation and now assumes control of the sport in the U.
United States nationality law The Immigration and Naturalization Act sets forth the legal requirements for acquiring and losing citizenship of the United States. The requirements have become more explicit since the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, with the most recent changes made in 2001.
United States National Academies The United States National Academies comprises four organizations: the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the United States National Research Council (NRC). The National Academies are a national academy for the United States (US).
United States National Agricultural Library The United States National Agricultural Library is one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural research libraries, and serves as a National Library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture. The library has two locations, the Abraham Lincoln Building on the grounds of the Henry A.
United States National Grid The United States National Grid, officially known as the United States National Grid for Spatial Addressing (USNG), is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in United States, different from using latitude or longitude. It is similar in design to the national grid reference systems used throughout other nations.
United States National Guard The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.
United States National Chemistry Olympiad The United States National Chemistry Olympiad (or USNCO) is a contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS) used to select the four-student team that represents the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO).
United States National Library of Medicine The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. The collections of the National Library of Medicine include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.
United States National Mine Health and Safety Academy The United States National Mine Health and Safety Academy (MSHA) is a federal academy responsible for training the mine safety and health inspectors and technical support personnel of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
United States National Park National Parks in the United States is a classification of protected areas of the United States. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the world — in 1872, there was no state government to manage it, so the federal government assumed direct control.
United States National Radio Quiet Zone The United States National Radio Quiet Zone is a large area of land surrounding the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) near Green Bank, West Virginia. It is a rectangle of land approximately 13,000 square miles in size and straddles the border of Virginia and West Virginia; it was picked because it has a unique topography that screens out most incoming radio signals, allowing the Green Bank telescopes to receive signals that are otherwise too quiet to be heard over the normal radio background.
United States National Research Council The National Research Council (NRC) of the USA is the working arm of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Engineering, carrying out most of the studies done in their names.
United States National Research Council Rankings The United States National Research Council puts out a ranking of United States graduate programs about every 10 years, although the time elapsed between each new ranking has exceeded 10 years. The next rankings are expected to be published in September 2007.
United States National Security Council The White House National Security Council (NSC) in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the President. Since its inception under President Harry Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies.
United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry The United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry is a cooperative effort between US state agencies that host public sex offender registries and the US federal government. The registry is coordinated by the United States Department of Justice and operates a web site search tool allowing a user to submit a single query to obtain information about sex offenders throughout the United States.
United States National Slavery Museum The United States National Slavery Museum is a non-profit organization based in Fredericksburg, Virginia that is fundraising and campaigning to establish a national museum on slavery in America. It is planned to open in 2008 as the only museum in America among more than 16,000 that has as its primary mission education, re-education and policy formation regarding slavery in America and its enduring legacy.
United States Natural Law Party The Natural Law Party was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. Both were funded almost solely by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation, a belief which holds the view that natural law is the supreme organizing principle that governs the universe.
United States Naval Academy Cemetery The United States Naval Academy Cemetery is a cemetery at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is the resting place for many of our nation's veterans many of whom gave their life in service to their country.
United States Naval Aviator A United States Naval Aviator is a pilot in the United States Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard. Like Naval Flight Officers, prospective Naval Aviators attend Aviation Preflight Indoctorination at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida (NAS Pensacola) and are designated as Student Naval Aviators.
United States Naval Institute The United States Naval Institute is a non-profit, professional organization in the United States related to the Navy. It is based in Annapolis, MD, and publishes the magazines Proceedings and Naval History, along with many books devoted to its membership's profession.
United States Naval reactor United States Naval reactor refers to nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy. Reactors are designed by a variety of contractors, then developed and tested at one of three government owned or operated facilities (Naval Reactors Facility, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory), all under the management of the office of Naval Reactors.
United States Naval Research Laboratory The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research and advanced development. NRL has existed since 1923, when it opened under the Office of Naval Research at the instigation of Thomas Edison.
United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps The United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) is a paramilitary youth organization that serves to teach 13 to 18 years old about the sea-going military services, community service, citizenship, and an understanding of discipline and teamwork. A younger version of the NSCC, the Navy League Cadet Corps (NLCC), exists for youths between the ages of 11 and 13.
United States Naval Ship United States Naval Ship or USNS is the prefix designation given to non-combat United States Naval ships auxiliary support ships that are in service, but are crewed by civilians. Some civilians are DOD employees, others are employees of contracted-crewing companies.
United States Naval Test Pilot School The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Patuxent River), in Patuxent River, Maryland. The school provides instruction to experienced United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force pilots, flight officers, and engineers in the processes and techniques of aircraft and systems test and evaluation.
United States Navy Armed Guard The United States Navy Armed Guard (USNAG) were US Navy Gun crews consisting of Gunner's Mates, Coxswains and Boatswains, Radiomen, Signalmen, an occasional Pharmacist (Hospital Corpsman), and toward the end of the war a few radarmen serving at sea on Merchant Ships. Armed Guard crews served on ships in every theatre of the war.
United States Navy bureau system The "bureau system" of the United States Navy was the Department of the Navy's material-support organization from 1842 through 1966. The bureau chiefs were largely autonomous, reporting directly to the Secretary of the Navy and managing their respective organizations without the influence of other bureaus.
United States Navy Diver A United States Navy Diver refers to a member of the community of officer and enlisted personnel in the United States Navy who are qualified in underwater scuba and deep sea diving. In 2006, the US Navy established a new rating, Navy Diver (or ND), in the Navy's engineering/hull community.
United States Navy enlisted rate insignia United States Navy enlisted rates describe an enlisted sailors paygrade. Enlisted paygrade is a numbering system from junior enlisted member to senior, labeled E-1 through E-9, and is the same accross all five branches of the U.
United States Navy Chaplain Corps The Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy consists of ordained clergy who are commissioned Naval officers. They serve not only in the Navy, but in the United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard as well.
United States Navy Mark 12 Mod X Special Purpose Rifle The United States Navy Mark 12 Mod 0/1 Special Purpose Rifle (SPR) is a rifle that has been in service with the United States special forces in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. SPR initially stood for Special Purpose Receiver, but that nomenclature seems to have disappeared as the weapon became a stand alone weapon system, and not just an add on upper as part of proposed SOPMOD upgrades.
United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle The United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle (EBR) is an American selective fire military rifle chambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge, a variant of the Springfield Armory M14, built for use with units of United States Naval Special Warfare Command, Marine Corps Special Operations Detachment 1, and Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance.
United States Navy reserve fleets The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the activity have changed several times, the basics are constant; keep the ships afloat and sufficiently working as to be reactivated quickly in an emergency.
United States Navy Regulations United States Navy Regulations is the principal regulatory document of the Department of the Navy, endowed with the sanction of law, as to duty, responsibility, authority, distinctions and relationships of various commands, officials and individuals. Other directives issued within the Department of the Navy may not conflict with, alter or amend any provision of Navy Regulations.
United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group; otherwise known as NAVSPECWARDEVGRU, the NSWDG, or simply as DEVGRU; is the United States Navy's premier Counter-Terrorism unit. It is officially stated to have been formed after United States Navy SEAL Team SIX was disbanded and SEAL Team 8 was tasked with maritime deployments and take-downs.
United States Navy Working Capital Fund The United States Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF) is a branch of the family of United States Department of Defense (DoD) Working Capital Funds. The NWCF is a revolving fund, an account or fund that relies on sales revenue rather than direct Congressional appropriations to finance its operations.
United States Note A United States Note is a fiat paper currency that was issued directly into circulation by the United States Department of the Treasury. The notes were also known as Legal Tender Notes because of the inscription on its face stating "This Note is a Legal Tender.
United States occupation of Fallujah The US occupation of Fallujah began in April 2003, one month following the beginning of the invasion. Fallujah was one of the most peaceful areas of the country just after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and the arrival of U.
United States occupation of Haiti The first United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915 and ended in mid-August, 1934. Other occupations include ones that began in 1994 and 2004 (though these may have been partially under the UN banner, the US was the prime mover of the actions).
United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914 The United States occupation of Veracruz lasted for six months in response to the April 9, 1914, Tampico Affair. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations with the United States, related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.
United States of Africa The United States of Africa is a name sometimes given to one version of the possible future unification of Africa as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in formation to the United States of America, mirroring the idea of the United States of Europe. The idea has recently been advanced by Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi at a 2000 summit in Lomé, Togo , and by Alpha Oumar Konare, chairperson of the African Commission, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Africa Day, on May 25, 2006.
United States of America Computing Olympiad The United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO) is a computer programming competition aimed primarily at secondary school students in the United States. Participants of the USACO submit programs in one of several languages, including C, C++, Java, and Pascal, to various competitions held throughout the year.
United States of America Cricket Association The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in the United States. USACA sponsors the United States cricket team that is recognized by the International Cricket Council, and has been an associate member of that body since 1965.
United States of America Mathematical Olympiad The United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) is a prestigious high school mathematics competition held annually in the United States. Since its debut in 1972, it has served as the final round of the AMC series of contests.
United States of America Mathematical Talent Search The United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is a mathematics competition open to all United States students in or below high school. Professor George Berzsenyi initiated the contest in 1989 under joint sponsorship of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications.
United States of America non-profit laws Laws regarding non-profit organizations in the United States of America relate to taxation, the special problems of an organization which does not have profit as its primary motivation, and prevention of charitable fraud. Some non-profit organizations can broadly be described as "charities" - like the American Red Cross.
United States of Belgium The United States of Belgium, (Dutch Verenigde Nederlandse Staten, French États-Belgiques-Unis) was a confederation of the Southern Netherlands which existed from January to December 1790, during a short-lived revolt against the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Other English translations are United Belgium States, United Belgian States or United Netherlands States.
United States of Colombia The United States of Colombia is the name adopted in 1863 through the Rionegro Constitution for the nation which had been known as the Republic of New Grenada since the dissolution of the federation of Great Colombia in 1830-1831 .
United States of Europe The United States of Europe is a name given to one version of the possible future unification of Europe, as a sovereign federation of states, similar to the United States of America. The analogy with the United States implies that the existing nation-states of Europe would be demoted to a status equivalent to the 50 U.
United States of Greater Austria The United States of Greater Austria (German: Vereinigte Staaten von GroĂź-Ă–sterreich) was an idea created by a group of scholars surrounding the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand that never came to pass. This specific proposal was conceived by Aurel Popovici in 1906.
United States of China United States of China (Traditional Chinese: ä¸čŹŻĺ衆國; Simplified Chinese: ä¸ĺŤŽĺ众国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Hezhongguo) is a political concept first devised in the early 1920s by Chen Jiongming of a federalized China modeled closely after the United States of America. Given the political, social and linguistic realities of China in the warlord period, Chen Jiongming believed that a federalist approach was the only feasible way to eventually establish a united, democratic republic.
United States of Indonesia The United States of Indonesia (RUSI) was a federal state to which the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty of Indonesia on 27 December 1949. This transfer ended the four-year conflict between Indonesian nationalists and the Netherlands that was fought over for control of Indonesia.
United States of North America The United States of North America (USNA) is a fictitious country in A Mind Forever Voyaging (AMFV), a science fiction text adventure game by Infocom set in the year 2031. The USNA is the result of a fictional union between the United States and Canada.
United States order of precedence The United States order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the government of the United States. The order is established by the office of the President of the United States and can be changed by the President, though in practice it is fairly established and rarely modified.
United States O class submarine The United States O class submarine was introduced shortly before the Armistice with Germany in 1918, and none saw combat, excluding O-4 and O-6. On 24 July 1918, a British steamer mistook O-4 and O-6 (SS-67) for German U-boats and fired on the submarines.
United States Office of Research Integrity The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is one of the bodies concerned with research integrity in the United States. It was created when the Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) and the Office of Scientific Integrity Review (OSIR) merged in May 1992.
United States Office of Special Counsel The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority come from three federal statutes, the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act and the Hatch Act. Its primary mission is to protect federal employees and others from "prohibited personnel practices", especially in reprisal for whistleblowing.
United States Office of the Independent Counsel United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the Congress under .
United States Oil United States Oil (Ticker USO) is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that tracks various oil investments. The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil.
United States Olympic Committee The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is a non-profit organization that serves as the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the United States and coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency and various international sports federations. Under the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, the Committee is chartered by the United States government as a monopoly.
United States Olympic Training Center A training center created specifically for Olympic athletes to come and prepare for the Olympics, but used mainly by the United States. It was built in Colorado Springs due to the high elevation level and the increase in training effectiveness due to it.
United States Open (crosswords) The United States Open was a crossword puzzle-solving tournament that lasted from 1982 to 1986. Sponsored by Games Magazine and directed by Will Shortz, it attracted thousands of potential competitors and was, along with the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, one of the two largest crossword tournaments in recent decades.
United States passport United States passports are issued to citizens and nationals of the United States of America for the purpose of international travel. They entitle the bearer to the protection of US consular officials overseas.
United States patent law United States patent law was established "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"as provided in the United States Constitution]. Congress implemented these protection as a [[First to file and first to invent|first-to-invent patent legal framework.
United States presidential election United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting at midday on Inauguration Day, which is January 20 of the year after the election.
United States presidential election debates During presidential elections in the United States, it has become customary for the main candidates (almost always the candidates of the two main parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party) to engage in a debate. The topics discussed in the debate are often the most controversial issues of the time, and some have said that elections can be won or lost based on these debates.
United States presidential election, 1796 [electoral votes by state.Because electors couldn't distinguish between their presidential and vice presidential choices until the passage of the Twelfth Amendment], the map above assumes that the presidential votes are exactly the votes for Adams or Jefferson.
United States presidential election, 1820 The United States presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed. (The previous two were the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition.
United States presidential election, 1880 The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern states. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones.
United States presidential election, 2000 The United States presidential election of 2000 was one of the most controversial and closest presidential elections in the history of the United States. It was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, the Vice President of the United States, and Republican candidate George W.
United States presidential election, 2000 Florida results The outcome of the United States presidential election, 2000 was not known for more than a month after the balloting, because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Florida presidential ballots. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Bush and 255 to Gore, with New Mexico (5), Oregon (7), and Florida (25) too close to call that evening.
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