National

National may refer to:

• Nation A nation is a group of people who share common history, culture, ethnic origin and language, often possessing or seeking its own independent government. The development and conceptualization of a nation is closely related to the development of modern industrial states and nationalist movements in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, or country A country is a geographical region considered to be the physical territory of a sovereign state, or to a smaller, or former, political division within a geographical region. Usually, but not always, a country coincides with a sovereign territory and is associated with a state, nation or government
  • Nationality Nationality is membership of a nation or sovereign state. Nationality can be acquired by birth within the jurisdiction of a state, by inheritance from parents, or by a process of naturalization. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state
  • A citizen Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities. "Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public , volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, or subject of a country; by inference, frequently a person who owes loyalty to a country but lacks full membership in it, a non-citizen resident
  • National (distribution) National is an adjective used to describe a product or publication that is distributed throughout an entire nation, e.g., a national magazine. It implies that the item is available for purchase or access anywhere in the country. Comparatively, some products or publications are described as "local" or "regional", and are, a type of product or publication this is distributed across an entire nation, e.g., a national magazine
• Vending machines made by the large manufacturer Crane Co. The Crane Company is an American industrial products company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Founded by Richard Teller Crane, the company is best known to the consumer public as a large manufacturer of vending machines. Their famous National brand includes glassfront vending machines and cold food vending machines. Crane Co. has expanded their
• National (brand) National was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence the name "National". It was arguably the, the Japanese brand under which Matsushita products are sold (elsewhere they are sold under the Panasonic brand)
• National (Gymanfa Ganu) A Cymanfa Ganu , is a Welsh festival of sacred hymns, sung with four part harmony by a congregation, usually under the direction of a choral director. It is sometimes referred to as "Gymanfa Ganu" because of the complexities of consonant mutation in the Welsh language, which leads to the initial "C" being mutated to a "G&, a Welsh festival in Wales, England and North America

Companies and organizations

• National Airlines
• National Assembly The National Assembly is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known National Assembly, and the first legislature to be known by this title, was that established during the French Revolution in 1789, known as the Assemblée nationale. Consequently, the name is particularly common in
• National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (國家地震工程研究中心) is an organisation found in Taipei, Taiwan. Since Taiwan is located on the ridge of the Eurasian and Philippine tectonic plates, it is highly seismic. The biggest earthquake in Taiwan in more than a century was 21 September 1999, also known as the Chi-Chi (NCREE)
• National Comics, an early name for the comic book publisher known later as DC Comics DC Comics is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner. DC Comics produces material featuring a large number of well-known
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank, California. It is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network" due to its stylized peacock logo, created originally for color, a television network
• National Development Front Kerala, a Muslim A Muslim or Moslem is an adherent of the religion of Islam. Literally, the word means "one who submits (to God)". Muslim is the participle of the same verb of which Islam is the infinitive. All Muslims observe Sunnah, but differences in the definition of what is and what is not Sunnah has led to the emergence of sectarian movements.[ organisation in Kerala, India Kerala is a state in south India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act bringing together the areas where Malayalam is the dominant language. The state has an area of 38,863 sq km and is bordered by Karnataka to the north, Tamil Nadu to the south and the east and the Arabian sea towards the west
• National Benzol National Benzole was a petroleum brand used in the United Kingdom from 1919 to the 1960s. In 1934 the company acquired Power Petroleum. In the early 1960s it was renamed as simply National, a British petroleum brand
• National Bus Company The National Bus Company, or NBC, was the Australian brand for National Express Group's mass transit bus services in Melbourne and Brisbane. Its sister companies were Westbus, Hillsbus, and Glenorie in Sydney, Southern Coast Transit in Perth in Australia
• National Car Rental National Car Rental is a rental car company based in Clayton, Missouri. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947. It has grown from 60 locations in the United States in 1947 to over 2000 locations worldwide as of 2005
• National College of Natural Medicine National College of Natural Medicine is a school of Naturopathic Medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1956, it is the oldest programmatically of the six accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America. Until July 1, 2006, NCNM was known as the National College of Naturopathic, a medical school in Portland, Oregon, USA
• National High School, in West Bengal India
• National Hockey League The National Hockey League , often abbreviated to the NHL, is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which six are located in Canada and twenty-four in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is widely considered to be the premier, US ice hockey organization
• National Motor Vehicle Company The National Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles in Indianapolis, Indiana between 1900 and 1924. Its president, Arthur C. Newby, was one of the investors who created the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1900-1924 US automobile company
• National Party, several unrelated political parties around the world
• National Radio Company
• National Semiconductor National Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer, specializing in analog devices and subsystems, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor include power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's, an American semiconductor manufacturer
• National Supermarkets
• National String Instrument Corporation The company was formed by John Dopyera, the luthier who had invented the resonator, and George Beauchamp, the steel guitar player who had suggested to Dopyera the need for a louder guitar able to play a melody that would be heard among brass and other wind instruments, a company formed in the 1920s to manufacture the first resonator guitars
• National Reso-Phonic Guitars National Reso-Phonic Guitars is a manufacturer of resonator guitars and other resonator instruments including mandolins, ukuleles and 12 string guitars, a company formed in the 1980s to manufacture resonator guitars and the current owners of the National brand in the USA
• National Records National Records was a record label that was started in New York by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted till early 1951, a record label
• Championnat National The Championnat de France National , or simply the National, is the third highest division in French football, one division below Ligue 2, one above the Championnat de France Amateurs (also known as National), French football league competition
• Nationals - In 1981, a players' strike in the middle of the season forced the season to be split into two halves. Montreal won the division in the second half, despite having the second best record in the division when considering the entire season, two games behind St. Louis (Washington Nationals), professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., USA

Other

• National, Utah, ghost town in the US
• National academy A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanities. Typically the country's learned societies in individual disciplines will liaise with or be co-
• National anthem A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people
• National archive
• National bank In the past, the term "national bank" has been used synonymously with "central bank", but it is no longer used in this sense today. Some central banks may have the words "National Bank" in their name; conversely if a bank is named in this way, it is not automatically considered a central bank. For example, National-
• National church National church is a concept of a Christian church associated with a specific nation . The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of modern nationalism. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that
• National Comics (series), 1940s comic book series published by Quality Comics
• National Day The National Day is a designated date on which celebrations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign country. This nationhood can be symbolized by the date of independence, of becoming republic or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler . Often the day is not called ”National Day” but serves and can be considered as one. The
• National emblem A national emblem symbolically represents a nation. Most national emblems originate in the natural world, such as animals or birds, but another object may serve. National emblems may appear on many things such as the national flag, coat of arms, or other patriotic materials. One should not confuse a formal national emblem with less formal symbols
• National flag A national flag is a flag that symbolizes a country. The flag is flown by the government, but usually can be flown by citizens of that country as well
• National government A national government is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency
• National language A national language is a language which has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a people and perhaps by extension the territory they occupy. The term is used variously. A national language may for instance represent the national identity of a nation or country. National language may alternatively be a designation given to one or more
• National library A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works
• National museum Categories: National museums | Types of museum | Lists of museums
• National Road The National Road or Cumberland Road was one of the first major improved highways in the United States to be built by the federal government. Construction began in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. It crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia on the Ohio River in 1818. Plans were
• National security National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the nation-state through the use of economic, military and political power and the exercise of diplomacy
• National sport A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation. Some sports are de facto national sports, as baseball is in the U.S., while others are de jure as lacrosse and ice hockey are in Canada
• National stadium
• National university A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations. For example, the National University of Ireland in the early days of

See also

• All pages beginning with "National"
• All pages with titles containing "National"
• The National (disambiguation)
• Nacional
• Le National, various newspapers and a television program
• Nationalisation Nationalization, also spelled nationalisation, is the act of taking an industry or assets into the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to private assets, but may also mean assets owned by lower levels of government, such as municipalities, being transferred to the public sector to be operated by or
• National Football League (disambiguation)
• National Gallery (disambiguation)
• National League (disambiguation)
• National park (disambiguation)
• National police (disambiguation)
• National school (disambiguation)
• National Theatre (disambiguation)
• China National (disambiguation)
• Front National (disambiguation)

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