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Union

Definition: Union

Union

Adjective

1. Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman".

2. Of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract".

Noun

1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job".

2. The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale".

3. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring".

4. The state of being united; "there is strength in union".

5. State of being husband and wife; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union".

6. Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

7. A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union".

8. A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B".

9. The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals".

10. : a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).

11. : making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Union" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Union \Un"ion\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression unio oneness, union, single large pearl, kind of onion, from unus one. See One, and compare to Onion, Unit.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Union

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

An ailing individual frequently troubled by scabs and liable to strike without warning. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Aerospace

In Boolean algebra, the operation in which concepts are described by stating that they have the characteristics of one or more of the classes involved. Union is expressed as OR. (references)

Computing

Relational algebra:algebraic operator. The union of two relations R and S returns a new relation U containing the tuples of both R and S. If a tuple is part of both R and S, it will appear only once in U. Source: European Union. (references)

Electrical Engineering

A form of pipe fitting where two extension pipes are joined at a separable coupling. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

The place wherethe stock and scion have grown together. Source: European Union. (references)

Math

A matrix having the same number of items in each row. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

A pipe fitting similar to a coupling, but composed of three detachable parts-two being screwed on to the tubes and the third(a nut)being used to tighten them. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

A confederation or league of independant individuals (as nations or persons) for some commun end or purpose. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Eastern Rite

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Eastern Rites are the Christian churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that are in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church but do not follow the Latin Rite. They are also called Eastern Catholic or Uniate churches.

Western (or "Latin-Rite") Catholic bishops are subject directly to the Pope, but each Eastern-rite Catholic bishop is subject indirectly to the pope via one of six Catholic "patriarchs of the east", who sit in Alexandria, Antioch, Antelias, Baghdad, Beirut, and Damascus. (There is a seventh patriarch of the east in Jerusalem, but his church follows the Latin Rite.)

These churches accept Catholic dogma, but retain their own hierarchies and liturgies, and follow some laws and customs that differ from those of Western church. For example, their priests need not be celibate, and their parish priests, rather than diocesan bishops, normally confirm parishioners, using the chrismation rite rather than the rite used in the west.

It should be noted that not all the "Western" churches follow the Roman rite, in fact, several Italian dioceses have their own rites and usually the orders will have their own rites (Dominicans, Jesuits).

List of Eastern-Rite churches

See also

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European Union

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The European Union or EU is an international organisation of European states, established by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht treaty). The European Union is the most powerful international organisation so far in history. In some ways it resembles a state. Some legal scholars believe that it should not be considered as an international organisation at all, but rather as a sui generis entity.

European Union
(In Detail)
motto¹
Einheit in Vielfalt (German)
Unité dans la diversité (French)
United in diversity (English)
Unità nella diversità (Italian)
Unidad en la diversidad (Spanish)
Mangfoldighed og enhed (Danish)
Ενότητα στην πολυμερία (Greek)
Eenheid in verscheidenheid (Dutch)
Unidade na diversidade (Portuguese)
Erilaisina yhdessä (Finnish)
Mångfald och enhet (Swedish)
Official languages²
see Languages of the European Union 		Español (Spanish),
Dansk (Danish),
Deutsch (German),
Ελληνική; (Greek),
English,
Français (French),
Italiano (Italian),
Nederlands (Dutch),
Português (Portuguese),
Suomi (Finnish )
Svenska (Swedish)
Capital Brussels
President of the European Council Italy (Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi)
(until December 31, 2003)
President of the European Commission Romano Prodi
President of the European Parliament Pat Cox
Area
 - Total
 - % water		Ranked 8th³
3,191,100 km2
xx% / Negligible
Population
 - Total (2003)
 - Density		Ranked 3rd³
378,560,000
117.5/km²
Formation
 - Declared
 - Recognised 		Maastricht treaty


February 7, 1992
November 1, 1993

Currency Euro (EUR)4
Time zone UTC 0 to +2
EU anthem Ode to Joy
Internet TLD.EU.INT, .EU5;
Calling CodesIn zones 3 and 4
(1) Not official, this is the motto proposed in the constitution, see European motto.
(2) Official languages of the Union, not in the Union. Member states set official language(s) in their territories. Some territories have official languages that are not official languages of the Union.
(3) If the EU is counted as a singular country
(4) The Euro is the currency of the Union and of all Member States excluding Denmark (DKK), Sweden (SEK) and the United Kingdom (GBP).
(5) The .eu TLD has been approved by ICANN and the EU, but is not currently active.

Current Issues

Major issues concerning the European Union at the moment include its enlargement south and east (see below), the European constitution proposed by the Convention, the Union's relationship with the United States of America and participation in the Euro by those member states currently outside the Eurozone.

Origins

The original impetus for the founding of (what was later to become) the European Union was the desire to rebuild Europe after the disastrous events of World War II, and to prevent Europe from ever again falling victim to the scourge of war.

Methods

To accomplish this aim, the European Union attempts to form infrastructure that crosses state borders. The harmonized standards create a larger, more efficient market, because the member states can form a single customs union without loss of health or safety. For example, states whose people would never agree to eat the same food might still agree on standards for labelling and cleanliness.

The power of the European Union reaches far beyond its borders because to sell within it, it is helpful to conform to its standards. Once a non-member country's factories, farmers and merchants conform to EU standards, most of the costs of joining the union have been sunk. At that point, harmonizing laws to become a full member creates more wealth (by eliminating the customs costs) with only the tiny investment of actually changing the laws. In Internet terms, the EU is a "viral state."

History

The body was originally known as the European Economic Community (informally called the Common Market in the UK), this later changed to the European Community and then to the European Union. The EU has evolved from a trade body into an economic and political partnership.

For a more detailed history, see the article History of the European Union.

Member States

At present, the European Union comprises 15 member states. In 1950 the six founding members were:

Nine further states have joined in successive waves of enlargement:

Note: In 1990 the European Union territory was effectively enlarged when East and West Germany were united.

EU territories outside Europe

Note: Ceuta, Melilla, Gibraltar and the Åland Islands are in the EU but not the customs union.

All other member states territories not in Europe are not in the EU (and not in the customs union), partial list:

In addition, the British crown dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man (which are not territories of the United Kingdom) are not in the EU proper, but are included in the customs union.

Maps

The European Commission made maps available online [1], [1].

Extension of the EU

The total area of the European Union is 3,235,000 km². Were it a country, it would be the eighth largest in the world by area. The number of EU citizens (all EU member State citizens are EU citizens under the terms of the Maastricht treaty) is approximately 379 million as of October 2001. This is the third largest in the world after India and China.

See Enlargement of the European Union for details of future enlargement.

Economic Status

The EU, considered as a unit, has the second largest economy in the world, with a 2002 GDP of 8,447 billion euro, second only to that of the United States (9,239 billion euro, 2002 equivalent). The EU economy is expected to grow further over the next decade as more countries join the union - although the new States are usually poorer than the EU average, and hence GDP per capita over the whole Union will fall over the short-term.

Main Policies

The trend has been for political power to shift from the individual states, mostly upwards to the EU but also downwards to the European regions.

Many of these objectives depend on the harmonisation of laws across the member states and so European Union Law is increasingly present in the systems of the member states.

All prospective members must enact legislation in order to bring them into line with the common European legal framework (see also EFTA, EEA and Single European Sky).

Structure of the European Union

How does the European Community (EC) fit in?

In practice, the European Community is simply the old name for the European Union.

Legally, however, they must be distinguished. The European Union has no legal personality; it is not an international organisation, but a mere bloc of states. The European Community is one of two international organisations these states are members of -- the other is the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). There was once a third organisation, the European Coal and Steel Community, but it ceased to exist in 2002. These three organisations used to have separate institutions; but in 1961 their institutions were merged, though legally speaking they are still separate organisations (ie: the single Commission acts for EC and Euratom, which are legally separate organisations).

The legal system imposed by the EU is correctly called EC Law not EU law for this reason.

Intergovernmentalism vs. Supranationalism

A basic tension exists within the European Union between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism. Intergovernmentalism is a method of decision-making in international organisations where power is possessed by the member-states and decisions are made by unanimity. Independent appointees of the governments or elected representatives have solely advisory or implementational functions. Intergovernmentalism is used by most international organisations today.

An alternative method of decision-making in international organisations is supranationalism. In supranationalism power is held by independent appointed officials or by representatives elected by the legislatures or people of the member states. Member-state governments still have power, but they must share this power with other actors. Furthermore, decisions are made by majority votes, hence it is possible for a member-state to be forced by the other member-states to implement a decision against its will.

Some forces in European Union politics favour the intergovernmental approach, while others favour the supranational path. Supporters of supranationalism argue that it allows integration to proceed at a faster pace than would otherwise be possible. Where decisions must be made by governments acting unanimously, decisions can take years to make, if they are ever made. Supporters of intergovernmentalism argue that supranationalism is a threat to national sovereignty, and to democracy, claiming that only national governments can possess the necessary democratic legitimacy. Intergovernmentalism has historically been favoured by France, and by more Eurosceptic nations such as Britain and Denmark; while more integrationist nations such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy have tended to prefer the supranational approach.

In practice the European Union strikes a balance between two approaches. This balance however is complex, resulting in the often labyrinthine complexity of its decision-making procedures.

Starting in March 2002, a Convention on the Future of Europe will again look at this balance, among other things, and propose changes. These changes could in turn be adopted by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC).

The Three Pillars

European Union policies are divided into three main areas, called pillars. The first or 'Community' pillar concerns economic, social and environmental policies. The second or 'Common Foreign and Security Policy' (CFSP) pillar concerns foreign policy and military matters. The third or 'Justice and Home Affairs' (JHA) pillar concerns co-operation in the fight against crime.

Within each pillar, a different balance is struck between the supranational and intergovernmental principles. Supranationalism is strongest in the first pillar, while the other two pillars function along more intergovernmental lines. In the CFSP and JHA pillars the powers of the Parliament, Commission and European Court of Justice with respect to the Council are significantly limited, without however being altogether eliminated. The balance struck in the first pillar is frequently referred to as the "community method", since it is that used by the European Community.

Why the three pillars structure?

The pillar structure had its historical origins in the negotiations leading up to the Maastricht treaty. It was desired to add powers to the Community in the areas of foreign policy, security and defence policy, asylum and immigration policy, criminal co-operation, and judicial co-operation.

However, some member-states opposed the addition of these powers to the Community on the grounds that they were too sensitive to national sovereignty for the community method to be used, and that these matters were better handled intergovernmentally. To the extent that at that time the Community dealt with these matters at all, they were being handled intergovernmentally, principally in European Political Co-operation (EPC).

As a result, these additional matters were not included in the European Community; but were tacked on externally to the European Community in the form of two additional 'pillars'. The first additional pillar (Common Foreign and Security Policy, CFSP) deal with foreign policy, security and defence issues, while the second additional pillar (JHA, Justice and Home Affairs), dealt with the remainder.

Recent amendments in the treaties of Amsterdam and Nice have made the additional pillars increasingly supranational. Most important among these has been the transfer of policy on asylum, migration and judicial co-operation in civil matters to the Community pillar, effected by the Amsterdam treaty. Thus the third pillar has been renamed Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters, or PJCC.

The Single Institutional Framework

The three communities, and the three pillars possess a common institutional structure. The European Union has five institutions: There are also two advisory committees to the above institutions, which advise them on economic and social (principally relations between workers and employers) and regional issues: There are also several other bodies to implement particular policies, established either under the treaties or by secondary legislation: Finally the European Ombudsman watches for abuses of power by EU institutions.

See also

European Union Law, United States of Europe, European flag, List of Europeans, Trade bloc, History of the European Union, Enlargement of the European Union, Holy Roman Empire

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "European Union."

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Labor union

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A labor union (American English) or trade union (British English) is a commercial entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the trades workers in a particular industry. The union is formed for the purpose of collectively negotiating with an employer (or employers) over wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.

History

The concept of labor unions began early in the industrial revolution. More and more people left farming as an occupation and began to work for employers, often in appalling conditions and for very low wages. The labor movement arose as an outgrowth of the disparity between the power of employers and the powerlessness of individual employees.

Labor unions were illegal for many years in most countries. There were severe penalties for attempting to organize labor unions, up to and including execution. Despite this, labor unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labor law which not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into labor unions. Many consider it an issue of fairness that workers be allowed to pool their resources in a special legal entity in a similar way to the pooling of capital resources in the form of corporations.

Today a government-imposed ban on joining a union is often considered to be a human rights abuse. Most democratic countries have many unions, while most authoritarian regimes do not.

Unions not guilds

Unions are sometimes mistakenly thought to be successors to medieval guilds. Although guilds also existed to protect and enhance their members' livelihoods, guilds were groups of self-employed skilled craftsmen who had ownership and control over the materials and tools they needed to produce their goods. Guilds, in other words, were small business associations.

A union, in sharp contrast, is an organisation of hired workers who, generally speaking, own and control only their own ability to labor, not the tools or materials they work on. While industrial era unions could and often did consist of highly skilled factory workers, one of the radical breaks with the past was that unions could be constituted for essentially unskilled workers, even poor agricultural labourers.

Shop types

Companies that employ workers with a union generally operate on one of several models:

The Problem of International Comparison

As labor law is very diverse in different countries, so is the function of Labor Unions. For instance in Germany, only open shops are legal. This affects the function and services of the union. On the other hand, German unions have played a greater role in management decisions through participation in corporate boards and co-determination than have unions in the United States.

In addition, unions have very different relationships with political parties in different countries. In many countries unions are integrally associated with a particular political party, usally those which are left-wing or socialist. In the United States, by contrast, while the labor movement is historically aligned with the Democratic Party, the labor movement is by no means monolithic on that point; the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has supported Republican Party candidates on a number of occasions and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980, shortly before he destroyed it and banned all of its striking members from employment as air traffic controllers in 1981. In the United Kingdom the labor movement's relationship with the Labour Party is fraying as Party leadership embarks on privatization plans at odds with workers' interests.

Finally, the structure of employment laws affects unions' roles. In many western European countries wages and benefits are largely set by governmental action. The United States takes a more laissez faire approach, setting some minimum standards but leaving most workers' wages and benefits to collective bargaining and market forces.

Trade Unions in Britain

The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees. Most British unions are members of the TUC, the Trades Union Congress, which is the country's sole national trade union center.

Labor Unions in the US

Most labor unions in the United States are members of the AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947 over the veto of President Harry Truman, severely limits the powers of unions in the United States, and remains in effect. Closed shops are forbidden; union shops are allowed within the limits allowed by the statute and subject to additional conditions imposed by the National Labor Relations Board and the courts. Jurisdictional strikes (where two unions each claim work that they believe should be assigned to the workers they represent) and secondary boycotts (boycotts against an allegedly neutral company that does business with another company with which a union has labor dispute) were made illegal. Unions are no longer allowed to donate money to federal political campaigns.

Most importantly, the bill provided the executive branch of the Federal government with the ability to obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an actual or impending strike "imperiled the national health or safety", a test that has been in practice interpreted loosely by the courts.

Many US unions lost much of their prestige when links to organized crime were discovered. Union membership has been steadily declining for the past decade or so in all but the public sector (that is, unions of government employees).

Other

Some countries such as Sweden have strong, centralized unions, where every type of work has a specific union, which are then gathered in large national unions. The largest Swedish union is LO, Landsorganisationen. LO has over 2.1 million members, which is more than a fifth of Sweden's population. The largest organization of trade union members in the world is the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which today has 231 affiliated organisations in 150 countries and territories, with a combined membership of 158 million.

News

There are several sources of current news about the trade union movement in the world. These include LabourStart and the official website of the international trade union movement Global Unions.

See also Salting, Labor law, List of labor unions, strike

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Labor union."

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Oxford Union

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The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a private debating society whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. A parallel organisation exists in Cambridge. Founded in 1823, it has gained a worldwide reputation for the cut and thrust of its debate, proving a valuable training ground for many future British prime ministers.


Oxford Union Society' s Victorian (new) debating chamber
The Oxford Union is often confused by visitors with the Oxford University Student Union, a completely separate organisation at Oxford which is the recognised student government of the University.

The Oxford Union buildings are located in Frewin Court, off the Cornmarket, and contain a library and restaurant, as well as the famous debating chamber, which has played host to such figures as the Dalai Lama, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, Jon Bon Jovi,... and Kermit the Frog!

The society is run by a committee of students, elected every term from the membership. The post of President of the Oxford Union is much sought-after, and is often the starting point for a successful political career. Famous past presidents include:

Official Web Site

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Topology

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Topology is the study or science of places. It derives its name from the Greek words τοπος meaning place and λογος meaning study, talk.

See also: earth science, physical geography, human geography, geomorphology

In architecture, topology is a term used to describe spatial effects which can not be described by topography, i.e., social, economical, spatial or phenomenological interactions.

In mathematics, topology is a branch concerned with the study of topological spaces. (The term topology is also used for a set of open sets used to define topological spaces, but this article focuses on the branch of mathematics. Wiring and computer network topologies are discussed in network topology.) Roughly speaking, topology is the study of geometric objects without considering their dimensions.

The topology glossary contains definitions of terms used throughout topology.

History

The root of topology was in the study of geometry in ancient cultures. Leonhard Euler's paper on Seven Bridges of Königsberg is regarded as one of the first result on geometry that does not depend on any measurements, i.e., on topology.

Maurice Fréchet introduced the concept of metric space in 1906.

George Cantor, the inventor of set theory, studied extensively on limits.

In 1914, Hausdorff coined the term "topological space" and gave definition to what is now called Hausdorff space.

The current concept of topological space was described by Kuratowski in 1922.

Elementary introduction

Topological spaces show up naturally in mathematical analysis, abstract algebra and geometry. This has made topology one of the great unifying ideas of mathematics. General topology, or point-set topology, defines and studies some useful properties of spaces and maps, such as connectedness, compactness and continuity. Algebraic topology is a powerful tool to study topological spaces, and the maps between them. It associates "discrete", more computable invariants to maps and spaces, often in a functorial way. Ideas from algebraic topology have had strong influence on algebra and algebraic geometry.

The motivating insight behind topology is that some geometric problems depend not on the exact shape of the objects involved, but rather on the "way they are connected together". One of the first papers in topology was the demonstration, by Leonhard Euler, that it was impossible to find a route through the town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) that would cross each of its seven bridges exactly once. This result did not depend on the lengths of the bridges, nor on their distance from one another, but only on connectivity properties: which bridges are connected to which islands or riverbanks. This problem, the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, is now a famous problem in introductory mathematics.

Similarly, the hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology says that "one cannot comb the hair on a ball smooth". This fact is immediately convincing to most people, even though they might not recognize the more formal statement of the theorem, that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on the sphere. As with the Bridges of Königsberg, the result does not depend on the exact shape of the sphere; it applies to pear shapes and in fact any kind of blob, as long as it has no holes.

In order to deal with these problems that do not rely on the exact shape of the objects, one must be clear about just what properties these problems do rely on. From this need arises the notion of topological equivalence. The impossibility of crossing each bridge just once applies to any arrangement of bridges topologically equivalent to those in Königsberg, and the hairy ball theorem applies to any space topologically equivalent to a sphere. Formally, two spaces are topologically equivalent if there is a homeomorphism between them. In that case the spaces are said to be homeomorphic, and they are considered to be essentially the same for the purposes of topology.

Formally, a homeomorphism is defined as a continuous bijection with a continuous inverse, which is not terribly intuitive even to one who knows what the words in the definition mean. A more informal criterion gives a better visual sense: two spaces are topologically equivalent if one can be deformed into the other without cutting it apart or gluing pieces of it together. The traditional joke is that the topologist can't tell the coffee cup she is drinking out of from the donut she is eating, since a sufficiently pliable donut could be reshaped to the form of a coffee cup by creating a dimple and progressively enlarging it, while shrinking the hole into a handle.

One simple introductory exercise is to classify the letters of the English alphabet according to topological equivalence. To be simple, it is assumed that the lines of the letters have nonzero width. Then in most fonts, there is a class {a,b,d,e,g,o,p,q} of letters with a hole, a class {c,f,h,k,l,m,n,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z} of letters without a hole, and a class {i,j} of letters consisting of two pieces. For a more complicated exercise, it may be assumed that the lines have zero width; one can get several different classifications depending on which font is used.

Some useful theorems

Some useful notions from algebraic topology

See also list of algebraic topology topics.

Sketchy outline of the deeper theory

Generalizations

Occasionally, one needs to use the tools of topology but a "set of points" is not available. In pointless topology one considers instead the lattice of open sets as the basic notion of the theory, while Grothendieck topologies are certain structures defined on arbitrary categories which allow the definition of sheaves on those categories, and with that the definition of quite general cohomology theories.

Related articles

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Union

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A Union is a single entity which is a collection of two or more entities.

Other references are:

(not to be confused with places named Uniontown and Unionville)
(There are also Union Beach, New Jersey and Union Springs, Alabama.)

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Union (commerce)

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A union is a commercial entity that, unlike a corporation, is governed democratically with one vote per member.

Common examples include:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Union (commerce)."

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Union (set theory)

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In set theory and other branches of mathematics, the union of some sets is the set that contains everything that belongs to any of the sets, but nothing else.

Basic definition


A∪B in Venn diagram

If A and B are sets, then the union of A and B is the set that contains all elements of A and all elements of B, but no other elements. The union of A and B is standardly written "A ∪ B". Formally:

x is an element of A ∪ B if and only if
  • x is an element of A or
x is an element of B.
(This is an inclusive "or".)

For example, the union of the sets {1,2,3} and {2,3,4} is {1,2,3,4}. The number 9 is not contained in the union of the set of prime numbers {2,3,5,7,11,...} and the set of even numbers {2,4,6,8,10,...}, because 9 is neither prime nor even.

More generally, one can take the union of several sets at once. The union of A, B, and C, for example, contains all elements of A, all elements of B, and all elements of C, and nothing else. Formally, x is an element of A ∪ B ∪ C ∪ D iff x is in A or x is in B or x is in C.

Algebraic properties

Binary union (the union of just two sets at a time) is an associative operation; that is, A ∪ (B ∪ C) = (A ∪ B) ∪ C. In fact, A ∪ B ∪ C is equal to both of these sets as well, so parentheses are never needed when writing only unions. Similarly, union is commutative, so you can write the sets in any order. The empty set is an identity element for the operation of union. That is, {} ∪ A = A, for any set A. Thus one can think of the empty set as the union of zero sets. In terms of the definitions, these facts follow from analogous facts about logical disjunction.

Together with intersection and complement, union makes any power set into a Boolean algebra. For example union and intersection distributes over each other, and all three operations are combined in de Morgan's laws. If you want a Boolean ring instead of a Boolean algebra, then you can replace union with symmetric difference.

Infinitary unions

The most general notion is the union of an arbitrary collection of sets. If M is a set whose elements are themselves sets, then x is an element of the union of M if and only if for at least one element A of M, x is an element of A. In symbols:

That this union of M is a set no matter how large a set M itself might be, is the content of the axiom of union in formal set theory.

This idea subsumes the above paragraphs, in that for example, A ∪ B ∪ C is the union of the collection {A,B,C}. Also, if M is the empty collection, then the union of M is the empty set. The analogy between finitary unions and logical disjunction extends to one between infinitary unions and existential quantification.

The notation for the general concept can vary considerably. Hardcore set theorists will simply write

while most people will instead write
The latter notation can be generalised to
which refers to the union of the collection {Ai : i is in I}. Here I is a set, and Ai is a set for every i in I. In the case that the index set I is the set of natural numbers, the notation is analogous that that of summation:
When formatting is difficult, this can also be written "A1 ∪ A2 ∪ A3 ∪ ···". (This last example, a union of countably many sets, is very common in analysis; for an example see the article on σalgebras.) Finally, let us note that whenever the symbol "∪" is placed before other symbols instead of between them, it is of a larger size.

Intersection distributes over infinitary union, in the sense that

We can also combine ifinitary union with infinitary intersection to get the law

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Union (set theory)."

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Union County, Arkansas

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 45,629. The county seat is El Dorado.

Union County was formed on 2 November 1829 and was named from the citizen's petition for a new county which stated that they were petitioning "in the spirit of Union and Unity".

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,733 km² (1,055 mi²). 2,691 km² (1,039 mi²) of it is land and 42 km² (16 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.55% water.

Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 45,629 people, 17,989 households, and 12,646 families residing in the county. The population density is 17/km² (44/mi²). There are 20,676 housing units at an average density of 8/km² (20/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 66.15% White, 31.97% Black or African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.46% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. 1.14% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 17,989 households out of which 32.20% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.30% are married couples living together, 15.20% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.70% are non-families. 26.90% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.10% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.48 and the average family size is 3.00.

In the county the population is spread out with 25.90% under the age of 18, 8.30% from 18 to 24, 27.00% from 25 to 44, 22.70% from 45 to 64, and 16.10% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 91.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.00 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $29,809, and the median income for a family is $36,805. Males have a median income of $31,868 versus $19,740 for females. The per capita income for the county is $16,063. 18.70% of the population and 14.70% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 25.80% are under the age of 18 and 14.30% are 65 or older.

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Union County, Georgia

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. State of Georgia. As of 2000, the population is 17,289. The county's county seat is Blairsville, Georgia6.

Geography


According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 852 km² (329 mi²). 835 km² (323 mi²) of it is land and 17 km² (6 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.97% water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 17,289 people, 7,159 households, and 5,211 families residing in the county. The population density is 21/km² (54/mi²). There are 10,001 housing units at an average density of 12/km² (31/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 97.94% White, 0.58% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. 0.88% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 7,159 households out of which 24.80% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.90% are married couples living together, 7.10% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.20% are non-families. 24.20% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.00% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.35 and the average family size is 2.77. In the county the population is spread out with 20.00% under the age of 18, 6.60% from 18 to 24, 23.60% from 25 to 44, 28.20% from 45 to 64, and 21.60% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 45 years. For every 100 females there are 96.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.60 males. The median income for a household in the county is $31,893, and the median income for a family is $39,776. Males have a median income of $29,127 versus $20,871 for females. The per capita income for the county is $18,845. 12.50% of the population and 9.30% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.10% are under the age of 18 and 15.90% are 65 or older.

Cities and towns


*Blairsville

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Union County, Iowa

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. State of Iowa. As of 2000, the population is 12,309. Its county seat is Creston, Iowa6.

Geography


According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,103 km² (426 mi²). 1,099 km² (424 mi²) of it is land and 4 km² (2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.37% water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 12,309 people, 5,242 households, and 3,354 families residing in the county. The population density is 11/km² (29/mi²). There are 5,657 housing units at an average density of 5/km² (13/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 98.44% White, 0.23% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 0.58% from two or more races. 1.02% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 5,242 households out of which 27.50% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.10% are married couples living together, 8.00% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.00% are non-families. 31.30% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.40% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.29 and the average family size is 2.87. In the county the population is spread out with 23.30% under the age of 18, 8.70% from 18 to 24, 25.30% from 25 to 44, 24.00% from 45 to 64, and 18.70% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 92.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.00 males. The median income for a household in the county is $31,905, and the median income for a family is $41,453. Males have a median income of $27,700 versus $20,760 for females. The per capita income for the county is $16,690. 11.40% of the population and 7.40% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.80% are under the age of 18 and 9.30% are 65 or older.

Cities and towns


*Afton
*Arispe
*Creston
*Cromwell
*Kent
*Lorimor
*Thayer

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Union County, Oregon

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. State of Oregon. The county was named for the town of Union, Oregon, located within its boundaries. As of 2000, the population is 24,530.

Economy


The initial economic interest in the area was mining, but most of the mines were in the portion Baker County annexed in 1901. Farming (wheat, fruit, vegetables, and grass seeds), cattle, sheep raising, and timber have replaced mining as the primary economic forces in the county. Nearby mountains and streams offer hunting, fishing, skiing, and camping, which attract vacationers. The Forest Service owns 47% of the lands inside the county boundaries.

Geography


According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,280 km² (2,039 mi²). 5,275 km² (2,037 mi²) of it is land and 5 km² (2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.10% water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 24,530 people, 9,740 households, and 6,516 families residing in the county. The population density is 5/km² (12/mi²). There are 10,603 housing units at an average density of 2/km² (5/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 94.29% White, 0.51% Black or African American, 0.85% Native American, 0.85% Asian, 0.62% Pacific Islander, 1.22% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. 2.45% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 9,740 households out of which 30.00% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.10% are married couples living together, 8.50% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.10% are non-families. 26.10% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.80% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.45 and the average family size is 2.94. In the county, the population is spread out with 24.60% under the age of 18, 12.10% from 18 to 24, 23.50% from 25 to 44, 25.00% from 45 to 64, and 14.70% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 95.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.40 males. The median income for a household in the county is $33,738, and the median income for a family is $40,520. Males have a median income of $33,028 versus $21,740 for females. The per capita income for the county is $16,907. 13.80% of the population and 8.50% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.60% are under the age of 18 and 9.50% are 65 or older.

History


Population growth in eastern Oregon during the early 1860s prompted the State Legislature to split Umatilla and Baker Counties from Wasco County in 1862. Further settlement in the Grande Ronde Valley led to the creation of Union County from Baker County on October 14, 1864. The establishment of a county seat resulted in competition, based on geography and on economic and population growth, between La Grande and the city of Union. The county seat alternated between Union and La Grande until it permanently came to rest at La Grande in 1905. Between 1875 and 1913, adjustments were made between Union County's borders and the borders of Baker, Umatilla, and Wallowa Counties.

Cities and towns


*Cove
*Elgin
*Imbler
*Island City
*La Grande
*North Powder
*Summerville
*Union

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Union County, Pennsylvania

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population is 41,624. Its county seat is Lewisburg6.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 821 km² (317 mi²). 820 km² (317 mi²) of it is land and 1 km² (0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.12% water.

Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 41,624 people, 13,178 households, and 9,211 families residing in the county. The population density is 51/km² (131/mi²). There are 14,684 housing units at an average density of 18/km² (46/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 90.08% White, 6.91% Black or African American, 0.16% Native American, 1.06% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.37% from other races, and 1.37% from two or more races. 3.90% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 13,178 households out of which 31.10% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.90% are married couples living together, 6.90% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.10% are non-families. 25.30% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.80% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.50 and the average family size is 3.00.

In the county, the population is spread out with 20.10% under the age of 18, 13.90% from 18 to 24, 30.90% from 25 to 44, 21.70% from 45 to 64, and 13.40% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 123.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 128.50 males.

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Union, Alabama

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Union is a town located in Greene County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 227.

Geography


Union is located at 32°59'39" North, 87°54'19" West (32.994164, -87.905313)1. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²). 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 227 people, 85 households, and 53 families residing in the town. The population density is 106.9/km² (276.8/mi²). There are 103 housing units at an average density of 48.5/km² (125.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 7.93% White, 92.07% Black or African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 85 households out of which 32.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.2% are married couples living together, 18.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 37.6% are non-families. 35.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.67 and the average family size is 3.58. In the town the population is spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 11.5% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 106.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $22,031, and the median income for a family is $28,125. Males have a median income of $30,625 versus $17,083 for females. The per capita income for the town is $10,842. 32.6% of the population and 36.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 42.5% are under the age of 18 and 60.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Burnett County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Burnett County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 351.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 98.1 km² (37.9 mi²). 89.3 km² (34.5 mi²) of it is land and 8.8 km² (3.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.93% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 351 people, 171 households, and 115 families residing in the town. The population density is 3.9/km² (10.2/mi²). There are 422 housing units at an average density of 4.7/km² (12.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.01% White, 0.00% African American, 1.42% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. 0.28% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 171 households out of which 12.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.4% are married couples living together, 3.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.7% are non-families. 25.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.05 and the average family size is 2.43. In the town the population is spread out with 12.0% under the age of 18, 2.6% from 18 to 24, 18.8% from 25 to 44, 41.3% from 45 to 64, and 25.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 56 years. For every 100 females there are 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $31,250, and the median income for a family is $33,906. Males have a median income of $30,625 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,404. 8.0% of the population and 3.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 5.6% are 65 or older.

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Union, Connecticut

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Union is a town located in Tolland County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 693.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 77.3 km² (29.8 mi²). 74.4 km² (28.7 mi²) of it is land and 2.9 km² (1.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.75% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 693 people, 285 households, and 200 families residing in the town. The population density is 9.3/km² (24.1/mi²). There are 332 housing units at an average density of 4.5/km² (11.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.56% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.14% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.30% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 285 households out of which 27.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% are married couples living together, 4.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.5% are non-families. 22.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.43 and the average family size is 2.87. In the town the population is spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 3.3% from 18 to 24, 34.6% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 103.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 103.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $58,214, and the median income for a family is $65,417. Males have a median income of $48,021 versus $35,469 for females. The per capita income for the town is $27,900. 3.5% of the population and 2.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 5.9% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Door County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Door County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 880.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 93.0 km² (35.9 mi²). 54.8 km² (21.2 mi²) of it is land and 38.2 km² (14.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 41.02% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 880 people, 335 households, and 259 families residing in the town. The population density is 16.0/km² (41.6/mi²). There are 512 housing units at an average density of 9.3/km² (24.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.20% White, 0.34% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.23% from two or more races. 0.45% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 335 households out of which 31.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.0% are married couples living together, 5.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% are non-families. 17.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.63 and the average family size is 3.00. In the town the population is spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 102.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $47,604, and the median income for a family is $51,917. Males have a median income of $32,250 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $19,372. 5.1% of the population and 4.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.4% are under the age of 18 and 7.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,402.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 73.6 km² (28.4 mi²). 72.4 km² (27.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.69% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,402 people, 856 households, and 678 families residing in the town. The population density is 33.2/km² (86.0/mi²). There are 878 housing units at an average density of 12.1/km² (31.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 95.88% White, 0.04% African American, 0.54% Native American, 3.04% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.17% from other races, and 0.33% from two or more races. 0.42% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 856 households out of which 33.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.2% are married couples living together, 6.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.7% are non-families. 14.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.79 and the average family size is 3.08. In the town the population is spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 26.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $52,333, and the median income for a family is $55,921. Males have a median income of $31,750 versus $25,588 for females. The per capita income for the town is $20,518. 5.4% of the population and 5.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.9% are under the age of 18 and 11.3% are 65 or older.

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Union, Illinois

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Union is a village located in McHenry County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 576.

Geography


Union is located at 42°14'7" North, 88°32'33" West (42.235237, -88.542379)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 576 people, 204 households, and 158 families residing in the village. The population density is 364.6/km² (950.4/mi²). There are 208 housing units at an average density of 131.7/km² (343.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.09% White, 0.00% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.87% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. 3.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 204 households out of which 37.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.7% are married couples living together, 9.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% are non-families. 15.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.82 and the average family size is 3.15. In the village the population is spread out with 28.0% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 34.2% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 92.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.6 males. The median income for a household in the village is $56,528, and the median income for a family is $57,500. Males have a median income of $38,393 versus $25,536 for females. The per capita income for the village is $21,218. 5.2% of the population and 5.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.9% are under the age of 18 and 16.7% are 65 or older.

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Union, Iowa

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Union is a city located in Hardin County, Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 427.

Geography


Union is located at 42°14'41" North, 93°3'51" West (42.244715, -93.064240)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.4 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 427 people, 183 households, and 124 families residing in the city. The population density is 299.8/km² (772.8/mi²). There are 209 housing units at an average density of 146.7/km² (378.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.06% White, 0.23% African American, 0.70% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.70% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 183 households out of which 27.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.0% are married couples living together, 4.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.2% are non-families. 29.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 19.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.33 and the average family size is 2.87. In the city the population is spread out with 24.1% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 21.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $34,792, and the median income for a family is $39,792. Males have a median income of $25,417 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,370. 12.0% of the population and 8.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.0% are under the age of 18 and 6.2% are 65 or older.

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Union, Kentucky

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Union is a city located in Boone County, Kentucky. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,893.

Geography

Union is located at 38°56'43" North, 84°40'19" West (38.945185, -84.671866)1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.4 km² (3.2 mi²). 8.4 km² (3.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 2,893 people, 850 households, and 783 families residing in the city. The population density is 345.8/km² (894.4/mi²). There are 879 housing units at an average density of 105.1/km² (271.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.02% White, 0.55% African American, 0.17% Native American, 1.90% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.45% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races. 0.83% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 850 households out of which 62.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 85.3% are married couples living together, 5.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 7.8% are non-families. 5.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 1.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.40 and the average family size is 3.55.

In the city the population is spread out with 37.6% under the age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 35.9% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 2.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 100.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $85,454, and the median income for a family is $85,859. Males have a median income of $61,531 versus $34,861 for females. The per capita income for the city is $27,626. 1.4% of the population and 1.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.1% are under the age of 18 and 3.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Maine

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Union is a town located in Knox County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,209.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 89.3 km² (34.5 mi²). 83.1 km² (32.1 mi²) of it is land and 6.1 km² (2.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 6.88% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,209 people, 863 households, and 632 families residing in the town. The population density is 26.6/km² (68.8/mi²). There are 1,052 housing units at an average density of 12.7/km² (32.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.64% White, 0.09% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.81% from two or more races. 0.27% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 863 households out of which 31.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.2% are married couples living together, 9.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.7% are non-families. 20.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.51 and the average family size is 2.85. In the town the population is spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 95.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $37,679, and the median income for a family is $41,050. Males have a median income of $30,984 versus $23,438 for females. The per capita income for the town is $16,240. 9.6% of the population and 6.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.3% are under the age of 18 and 5.5% are 65 or older.

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Union, Mississippi

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Union is a town located in Mississippi. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,021.

Geography


Union is located at 32°34'17" North, 89°7'5" West (32.571320, -89.118118)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.9 km² (3.4 mi²). None of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,021 people, 780 households, and 509 families residing in the town. The population density is 227.5/km² (589.0/mi²). There are 884 housing units at an average density of 99.5/km² (257.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 62.84% White, 35.53% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.05% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. 0.64% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 780 households out of which 31.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% are married couples living together, 18.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.7% are non-families. 32.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 18.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.46 and the average family size is 3.12. In the town the population is spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 21.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 79.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 74.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $21,696, and the median income for a family is $28,542. Males have a median income of $26,667 versus $17,328 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,176. 35.2% of the population and 28.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 49.7% are under the age of 18 and 37.4% are 65 or older.

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Union, Missouri

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Union is a city located in Franklin County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 7,757. It is the county seat of Franklin County6.

Geography


Union is located at 38°26'48" North, 91°0'22" West (38.446684, -91.006070)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20.9 km² (8.1 mi²). 20.9 km² (8.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 7,757 people, 2,940 households, and 2,002 families residing in the city. The population density is 370.7/km² (959.9/mi²). There are 3,133 housing units at an average density of 149.7/km² (387.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.44% White, 1.43% African American, 0.30% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 1.43% from two or more races. 0.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,940 households out of which 35.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.7% are married couples living together, 11.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 31.9% are non-families. 26.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.56 and the average family size is 3.10. In the city the population is spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $39,596, and the median income for a family is $44,474. Males have a median income of $31,852 versus $22,924 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,885. 7.2% of the population and 4.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.8% are under the age of 18 and 11.2% are 65 or older.

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Union, Nebraska

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Union is a village located in Cass County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 260.

Geography


Union is located at 40°48'50" North, 95°55'20" West (40.813763, -95.922336)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 260 people, 102 households, and 78 families residing in the village. The population density is 478.0/km² (1,252.8/mi²). There are 112 housing units at an average density of 205.9/km² (539.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.31% White, 0.00% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.77% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.54% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 102 households out of which 35.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.6% are married couples living together, 4.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.5% are non-families. 21.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.55 and the average family size is 2.94. In the village the population is spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 106.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 103.2 males. The median income for a household in the village is $35,000, and the median income for a family is $39,375. Males have a median income of $32,500 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the village is $14,839. 5.2% of the population and 7.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.6% are under the age of 18 and 8.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, New Jersey

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Union is a town located in Union County, New Jersey. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 54,405.

Geography


Union is located at 40°41'49" North, 74°16'14" West (40.696951, -74.270439)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 23.6 km² (9.1 mi²). 23.6 km² (9.1 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 54,405 people, 19,534 households, and 14,162 families residing in the town. The population density is 2,303.3/km² (5,968.1/mi²). There are 20,001 housing units at an average density of 846.8/km² (2,194.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 67.66% White, 19.76% African American, 0.15% Native American, 7.72% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.44% from other races, and 2.24% from two or more races. 8.93% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 19,534 households out of which 32.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.5% are married couples living together, 13.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% are non-families. 23.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.71 and the average family size is 3.25. In the town the population is spread out with 22.3% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 87.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $59,173, and the median income for a family is $68,707. Males have a median income of $45,299 versus $35,604 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,768. 4.2% of the population and 3.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.6% are under the age of 18 and 5.5% are 65 or older.

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Union, New York

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Union is a town located in Broome County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 56,298.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 92.8 km² (35.8 mi²). 91.1 km² (35.2 mi²) of it is land and 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.87% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 56,298 people, 24,538 households, and 14,551 families residing in the town. The population density is 618.0/km² (1,600.8/mi²). There are 26,507 housing units at an average density of 291.0/km² (753.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 92.72% White, 2.45% African American, 0.17% Native American, 2.68% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.58% from other races, and 1.38% from two or more races. 1.53% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 24,538 households out of which 26.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.0% are married couples living together, 10.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 40.7% are non-families. 34.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.24 and the average family size is 2.90. In the town the population is spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $34,101, and the median income for a family is $46,170. Males have a median income of $35,891 versus $24,120 for females. The per capita income for the town is $20,077. 11.3% of the population and 8.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.4% are under the age of 18 and 6.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Ohio

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Union is a city located in Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,574.

Geography


Union is located at 39°54'1" North, 84°18'49" West (39.900154, -84.313494)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.1 km² (4.3 mi²). None of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 5,574 people, 2,080 households, and 1,609 families residing in the city. The population density is 502.8/km² (1,302.0/mi²). There are 2,167 housing units at an average density of 195.5/km² (506.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.88% White, 0.91% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 1.33% from two or more races. 1.18% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,080 households out of which 40.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.1% are married couples living together, 11.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.6% are non-families. 18.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.68 and the average family size is 3.05. In the city the population is spread out with 28.7% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $50,471, and the median income for a family is $55,139. Males have a median income of $39,944 versus $25,430 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,260. 3.7% of the population and 2.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 3.5% are under the age of 18 and 3.5% are 65 or older.

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Union, Oregon

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Union is a city located in Union County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,926.

Geography


Union is located at 45°12'36" North, 117°51'53" West (45.210034, -117.864818)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.4 km² (2.5 mi²). 6.4 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,926 people, 766 households, and 550 families residing in the city. The population density is 298.6/km² (773.0/mi²). There are 821 housing units at an average density of 127.3/km² (329.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.21% White, 0.10% African American, 0.99% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.73% from other races, and 1.56% from two or more races. 1.30% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 766 households out of which 30.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% are married couples living together, 9.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% are non-families. 24.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.51 and the average family size is 2.97. In the city the population is spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $28,529, and the median income for a family is $34,286. Males have a median income of $32,148 versus $16,776 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,406. 13.0% of the population and 12.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.3% are under the age of 18 and 16.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, Pierce County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Pierce County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 618.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 90.9 km² (35.1 mi²). 90.4 km² (34.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.51% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 618 people, 212 households, and 168 families residing in the town. The population density is 6.8/km² (17.7/mi²). There are 215 housing units at an average density of 2.4/km² (6.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.51% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.49% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 212 households out of which 40.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.0% are married couples living together, 4.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.3% are non-families. 17.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.92 and the average family size is 3.30. In the town the population is spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 116.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 117.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $35,375, and the median income for a family is $38,125. Males have a median income of $25,441 versus $24,583 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,892. 9.9% of the population and 8.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.3% are under the age of 18 and 8.5% are 65 or older.

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Union, Rock County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Rock County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,860.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 88.3 km² (34.1 mi²). 88.2 km² (34.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.09% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,860 people, 693 households, and 539 families residing in the town. The population density is 21.1/km² (54.6/mi²). There are 718 housing units at an average density of 8.1/km² (21.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.47% White, 0.16% African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.43% from other races, and 1.02% from two or more races. 0.54% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 693 households out of which 39.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.0% are married couples living together, 6.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.1% are non-families. 17.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.68 and the average family size is 3.02. In the town the population is spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 105.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $55,385, and the median income for a family is $60,208. Males have a median income of $39,185 versus $31,211 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,609. 3.6% of the population and 2.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.2% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

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Union, South Carolina

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Union is a city located in Union County, South Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,793. This was the home of murderer Susan Smith. It is the county seat of Union County6.

On October 25, 1995, the two sons of Susan Smith went missing. They were later found drowned in their mother's red Mazda in the bottom of the lake. The mother would be charged for drowning her two sons.

Geography


Union is located at 34°43'2" North, 81°37'30" West (34.717308, -81.624924)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20.6 km² (8.0 mi²). 20.6 km² (8.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 8,793 people, 3,791 households, and 2,399 families residing in the city. The population density is 426.5/km² (1,105.0/mi²). There are 4,240 housing units at an average density of 205.7/km² (532.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 56.48% White, 42.12% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.05% from other races, and 0.73% from two or more races. 0.68% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 3,791 households out of which 25.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.5% are married couples living together, 21.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.7% are non-families. 33.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.28 and the average family size is 2.91. In the city the population is spread out with 22.9% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 20.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 79.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 74.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $26,110, and the median income for a family is $34,714. Males have a median income of $29,071 versus $19,966 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,175. 20.8% of the population and 17.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 29.1% are under the age of 18 and 15.3% are 65 or older.

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Union, Vernon County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Vernon County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 531.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²). 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 531 people, 165 households, and 131 families residing in the town. The population density is 5.7/km² (14.8/mi²). There are 244 housing units at an average density of 2.6/km² (6.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.44% White, 0.00% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.19% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.19% from two or more races. 0.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 165 households out of which 41.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.9% are married couples living together, 6.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.6% are non-families. 17.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.22 and the average family size is 3.66. In the town the population is spread out with 37.1% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 89.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 98.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $35,417, and the median income for a family is $38,571. Males have a median income of $26,389 versus $18,646 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,501. 18.6% of the population and 10.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 30.2% are under the age of 18 and 6.7% are 65 or older.

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Union, Waupaca County, Wisconsin

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Union is a town located in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 804.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 93.6 km² (36.1 mi²). 93.0 km² (35.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.61% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 804 people, 291 households, and 233 families residing in the town. The population density is 8.6/km² (22.4/mi²). There are 335 housing units at an average density of 3.6/km² (9.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.88% White, 0.00% African American, 0.37% Native American, 0.62% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.12% from two or more races. 1.12% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 291 households out of which 34.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.1% are married couples living together, 3.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 19.6% are non-families. 17.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.76 and the average family size is 3.07. In the town the population is spread out with 26.6% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 104.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 106.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $42,875, and the median income for a family is $46,518. Males have a median income of $30,833 versus $20,625 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,529. 14.9% of the population and 11.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.9% are under the age of 18 and 17.4% are 65 or older.

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Union, West Virginia

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Union is a town located in Monroe County, West Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 548. It is the county seat of Monroe County6.

Geography


Union is located at 37°35'28" North, 80°32'35" West (37.591211, -80.543022)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.2 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census1 of 2000, there are 548 people, 267 households, and 148 families residing in the town. The population density is 470.2/km² (1,216.6/mi²). There are 309 housing units at an average density of 265.1/km² (686.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 94.16% White, 3.47% African American, 0.91% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.09% from two or more races. 0.18% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 267 households out of which 21.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.4% are married couples living together, 10.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 44.2% are non-families. 40.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 21.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.05 and the average family size is 2.75. In the town the population is spread out with 19.7% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 21.9% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 45 years. For every 100 females there are 85.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 79.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $21,797, and the median income for a family is $30,833. Males have a median income of $22,500 versus $14,773 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,870. 17.8% of the population and 15.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.0% are under the age of 18 and 9.2% are 65 or older.

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Union, Wisconsin

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Union is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:
*Union, Burnett County, Wisconsin
*Union, Door County, Wisconsin
*Union, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
*Union, Pierce County, Wisconsin
*Union, Rock County, Wisconsin
*Union, Vernon County, Wisconsin
*Union, Waupaca County, Wisconsin

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United Kingdom

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simple:United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland comprises Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland. Also known as simply the United Kingdom (UK), it is situated just off the north-western coast of mainland Europe, surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, though not part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of Overseas Territories.

United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland (English)
Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr
a Gogledd Iwerddon (Welsh)
An Rìoghachd Aonaichte na Breatainn Mhòr
agus Eirinn mu Thuath (Scots Gaelic)
Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire
agus Thuaisceart Éireann (Irish)
Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain
an Northren Ireland (Scots)
(In Detail) (Full size)
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit
(French: God and my right)
Official language None. English is de facto;
also Scottish Gaelic and
Welsh in Scotland and
Wales respectively.
CapitalLondon
Largest CityLondon
QueenElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Area
 - Total
 - % water		Ranked 76th
244,101 km²
1.3%
Population
 - Total (2003)
 - Density 		Ranked 21st
60,094,648
246/km²
Establishment11801 Act of Union
Currency Pound Sterling
Time zone UTC, Summer: +1 UTC
National anthemGod Save the Queen (unofficial)
Internet TLD.UK (but ISO 3166-1 is GB)
Calling Code44
International call prefix00
(1) Formed as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Name changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.

History

Main article: History of the United Kingdom

England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century. Wales, under English control since the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the 1536 Act of Union. In the 1707 Act of Union, the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland, having shared the same monarch since 1603, agreed to permanent union as the Kingdom of Great Britain. The 1801 Act of Union, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1603, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. With the formation of 26 Irish counties into the Irish Free State in 1922, the six remaining Ulster counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland, the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The nation had two periods of republican rule in the 17th century before reverting to a monarchy in 1660.

The United Kingdom, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one quarter of the earth's surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. The UK is currently weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it has chosen to defer its participation in Euro Zone owing to internal political considerations. Constitutional reform is also a current issue in the UK. The House of Lords has been subjected to ongoing reforms and National assemblies with varying degrees of power were created in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1999. Further assemblies for the English regions are also under consideration. The British republican movement is also gaining increasing media attention, although general support for monarchy remains high.

The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former Empire), the European Union and NATO. It is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council and holds a veto power.

See also: Monarchs; history of Britain; history of England; history of Ireland; history of Scotland; history of Wales, UK local history terms

Politics

Main article: Politics of the United Kingdom

In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with government, though carried out in the monarch's name, answerable to parliament and through it the electorate. It is governed from its capital, London (although see below). The UK's current monarch and head of state is Queen Elizabeth II who acceded to the throne in 1952 and was crowned in 1953. Today, her role is mainly ceremonial, with the country's real political power being delegated to the Prime Minister.

The United Kingdom is a very centralised state, with London's Westminster Parliament holding responsibility for most of the political affairs of the Kingdom. In recent years however, each of the countries apart from England has been granted its own governmental body responsible in varying degree for some internal matters.

See also:

Countries, Regions, Counties, Areas and Districts

Main article: Subdivisions of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is made up of the four countries England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which are in turn made up of the following subdivisions:

Wales and England are grouped into England and Wales for legal purposes.

England is divided into nine Government Office Regions - North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, Eastern, Greater London, South East, South West. Each region is made up of Counties and/or Metropolitan Counties and/or unitary authorities, apart from London which consists of London boroughs. There is growing support for the regions to be empowered via democratically elected assemblies - particularly in the northern regions and the West Midlands.

Scotland consists of 32 Council Areas. Wales consists of 22 Unitary Authorities, styled as 10 County Boroughs, 9 Counties, and 3 Cities. Northern Ireland is divided into 24 Districts, 2 Cities, and 6 Counties.

There are also a number of different dependencies belonging to the United Kingdom, see Crown colony.

The Isle of Man and Channel Islands are not legally part of the United Kingdom; they are British crown dependencies, though the United Kingdom is responsible for their external affairs.

The monarchy of the United Kingdom is symbolically shared with 16 other sovereign countries that are known as Commonwealth Realms, although Britain has very little political influence over these independent nations.

Other articles: Cities of the United Kingdom, Towns of the United Kingdom, Local government in England

Geography

Main article: Geography of the United Kingdom

Most of England consists of rolling terrain, but the country is more mountainous in the north; the dividing line between terrain types is usually identified as the Tees-Exe line. The main rivers are the Thames and the Severn; major cities include London, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne. Near Dover, the Channel Tunnel links the United Kingdom with France.

Wales is mostly mountainous, the highest peak being Snowdon, at 1,085 m above sea level. North of the mainland is the island of Anglesey. Main and capital city is Cardiff, located in the south of Wales.

Scotland's geography is varied, with lowlands in the south and east and highlands in the north and west, including Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain (1343 m). There are many long and deep sea arms, firths, and lochs. A multitude of islands west and north of Scotland are also included, notably the Hebrides, Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands. Main cities are Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Northern Ireland, making up the northeastern part of Ireland, is mostly hilly. Main cities are Belfast and Londonderry.

Economy

Main article: Economy of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom, a leading trading power and financial centre, has an essentially capitalist economy, one of the largest of Western Europe. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership by means of privatization programmes, and has contained the growth of the Welfare State. Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 1% of the labour force. The UK has large coal, natural gas, and oil reserves; primary energy production accounts for 10% of GDP, one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. Services, particularly banking, insurance, and business services, account for by far the largest proportion of GDP while industry continues to decline in importance.

The Blair government has put off the question of participation in the Euro system, citing five economic tests that would need to be met before a referendum can take place.

  1. Are business cycles and economic structures compatible with European interest rates on a permanent basis?
  2. If problems emerge, is there sufficient flexibility to deal with them?
  3. What impact would entry into the euro have on the UK's financial services industry?
  4. Would joining the euro create better conditions for firms making long-term decisions to invest in Britain?
  5. Would joining the euro promote higher growth, stability and a lasting increase in jobs?

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of the United Kingdom

The primary language spoken is English. Other languages include Welsh, Gaelic, Irish and various dialects of Scots. Recent immigrants from elsewhere in the Commonwealth speak other languages, including Urdu.

Culture

Main article: Culture of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has two of the world's most famous universities in its borders, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, and has brought forth great scientists and engineers such as Isaac Newton, James Watt, Charles Darwin, and Alexander Fleming.

Playwright William Shakespeare is arguably the most famous writer in the world; other well-known writers include the Bronte sisters, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J. R. R. Tolkien. Important poets include Robert Burns, Thomas Hardy, John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas and William Wordsworth.

Composers William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, John Blow, Henry Purcell, Edward Elgar, Arthur Sullivan, William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett have made major contributions to British music, and are known internationally. Living composers include John Tavener, Harrison Birtwistle and Oliver Knussen.

Britain has been described as a land without music, but it supports a number of major orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and its several music colleges have helped to teach many well known musicians. Because of its location and other economic factors London is one of the most important cities for music in the world, and has several important concert halls and is also home to the Royal Opera House, one of the world's leading opera houses. British traditional music has also been very influential abroad.

The UK has also produced the famous Rock and roll bands The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Oasis, and Radiohead. It has also pioneered in various forms of electronic dance music such as acid house, drum and bass and trip hop, which were in whole or part developed in the United Kingdom and have spawned various internationally known acts such as Underworld, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers and Portishead. The United Kingdom is one of three countries which have a profitable recorded music industry, based mostly on popular music, the others being the United States and Sweden. (see main article: Music of the United Kingdom).

Visual artists from the United Kingdom include such luminaries as John Constable, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake and J.M.W. Turner. In the 20th century, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, and the pop artists Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake are of note. More recently still, the so-called Young British Artists have gained some notoriety, particularly Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

The United Kingdom also has a vibrant tradition of theatre, and London has many theatres which put on plays and musicals, including the National Theatre.

UK topics on Wikipedia

See list of United Kingdom topics for a comprehensive listing of UK related links on Wikipedia.

Public & Bank Holidays
DateName
1 JanuaryNew Year's Day
2 January(Scotland only)
The Friday before Easter SundayGood Friday
First Sunday after the first full moon since the vernal equinoxEaster Sunday
The day after Easter SundayEaster Monday
First Monday in MayMay Day Bank Holiday
Last Monday in MaySpring Bank Holiday
Last Monday in AugustSummer Bank Holiday
25 DecemberChristmas Day
26 DecemberBoxing Day (not Scotland)
17 MarchSt Patrick's Day (Northern Ireland only)
12 JulyBattle of the Boyne - Orangemen's Day (Northern Ireland only)

External links

European Union:
Austria  |  Belgium  |  Denmark  |  Finland  |  France  |  Germany  |  Greece  |  Ireland
Italy  |  Luxembourg  |  Netherlands  |  Portugal  |  Spain  |  Sweden  |  United Kingdom

Countries acceding to membership on May 1, 2004:
Cyprus  |  Czech Republic  |  Estonia  |  Hungary  |  Latvia  |  Lithuania  |  Malta  |  Poland  |  Slovakia  |  Slovenia

Countries of the world  |  Europe  |  Council of Europe

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United States

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The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S.), America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. Founded along the Atlantic coast, it spread westward to the Pacific Ocean. It shares land borders with Canada in the north and Mexico in the south, shares a marine border with Russia in the west, and has a collection of districts, territories, and possessions around the globe. The country has 50 states, which have a level of local autonomy.

The United States traces its national origin to the declaration by 13 British colonies in 1776 that they were free and independent states. Since the mid-20th century it has eclipsed every other nation in terms of economic, political, military, and cultural influence.

United States of America
(In Detail) Great Seal
National mottos
(1776 - ): E Pluribus Unum
(Latin: "Out of many, one")
(1956 - ): In God We Trust
Official language None at federal level,
some states specify
English de facto
Capital Washington, DC
Largest City New York City
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Area
 - Total
 - % water 		Ranked 3rd
9,372,610 km²
2.198%
Population
 - Total (2000)
 - Density 		Ranked 3rd
281,421,906
31/km²
Independence
 - Declared
 - Recognized 		Revolutionary War
July 4, 1776
September 3, 1783
GDP (base PPP)
 - Total (2002)
 - GDP/head 		Ranked 1st
10,40 trillions $
37,600 $
Currency US dollar ($)
Time zone UTC -5 to UTC -10
National anthem The Star-Spangled Banner
Internet TLD.US .EDU .GOV .MIL
Calling Code1

History

Main article: History of the United States

Following the European colonization of the Americas, the United States became the world's first modern democracy after its break with Great Britain, with a Declaration of Independence in 1776. The original political structure was a confederation in 1777, ratified in 1781 as the Articles of Confederation. After long debate, this was supplanted by the Constitution of a more centralized federal government in 1789. During the 19th century, many new states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. Two of the major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the American Civil War (1861-65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the U.S. remains the world's most powerful nation-state.

See also: Military History of the United States, Timeline of United States history

Politics

Main article: Politics of the United States

The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over state law. In general, matters that lie entirely within state borders are the exclusive concern of state governments. These include internal communications; regulations relating to property, industry, business, and public utilities; the state criminal code; and working conditions within the state. Many state laws are quite similar from state to state. Finally, there are many areas of overlap between state and federal jurisdictions.

In recent years, the federal government has assumed broader responsibility in such matters as health, education, welfare, transportation, and housing and urban development. The constitutions of the various states differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people and a plan for organizing the government. On such matters as the operation of businesses, banks, public utilities, and charitable institutions, state constitutions are often more detailed and explicit than the federal constitution.

The federal government itself consists of three branches: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. The head of the executive branch is the President of the United States. The legislative branch consists of the United States Congress, while the Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch. The President is elected to a four year term by the U.S. Electoral College. The various electors are in turn chosen primarily by the popular votes in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Members of Congress are elected at varying dates, as are state Governors and state legislatures.

The federal and state government is dominated by two political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. The dominant political culture in the United States is, as a whole, somewhat to the right of the dominant political culture in European democracies. Given their complex support bases it is difficult to specifically categorise the two major parties' appeal. Within the US political culture, the Republican Party is described as center-right and the Democratic Party is described as center-left. Minor party and independent candidates are very occasionally elected, usually to local or state office, but the United States political system has historically supported catch all parties rather than coalition governments. The ideology and policies of the sitting President of the United States commonly play a large role in determining the direction of his political party, as well as the platform of the opposition.

The two parties exist on both the state and federal level, although the parties' organization, platform, and ideologies are not necessarily uniform across all levels of government.

Both major parties draw some support from all the diverse socio-economic classes which compose the mature multi-ethnic capitalist society which makes up the United States. Business interests provide the major funding and support to the Republican Party while labor unions and minority ethnic groups provide major support to the Democrats. Access to funds is vital in the political system due to the financial costs of mounting political campaigns. Thus, through lobbying, corporations, unions, and other organized groups that provide funds and political support to parties and politicians can play a large role in determining the political agendas and government decision-making.

Political divisions

Main article: United States territory

States

Main article: States of the United States

At the Declaration of Independence, the United States consisted of 13 states. In the following years, this number has grown steadily due to expansion to the west, conquest and purchase of lands by the American government, and division of existing states to the current number of 50 :

  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

The contiguous part of the US (i.e. without Hawaii and Alaska) is called continental United States.

The states are divided into smaller administrative regions, called counties in most states--exceptions being Alaska (boroughs) and Louisiana (parishes). Counties can include a number of cities and towns, or sometimes just a part of a city. See County (United States).

Federal district

The District of Columbia is a separate federal district not part of any state and is under the direct authority of Congress. It is there that the nation's capital city—the seat of the federal government—resides.

Dependent areas

Several islands in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea are dependent territories of the United States:

  • American Samoa
  • Baker Island (uninhabited)
  • Guam
  • Howland Island (uninhabited)
  • Jarvis Island (uninhabited)
  • Johnston Atoll (uninhabited)
  • Kingman Reef (uninhabited)
  • Midway Islands
  • Navassa Island (uninhabited)
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Palmyra Atoll (uninhabited)
  • Puerto Rico
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Wake Island (uninhabited)

Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States.

US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease.

The US has made no territorial claim in Antarctica but has reserved the right to do so.

From July 18, 1947 until October 1, 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, but recently entered into a new political relationship with all four political units.

Occupying Power

The United States is currently an occupying power of the following countries:

Geography

Main article: Geography of the United States

As the world's third largest nation (land area), the United States landscape varies greatly: temperate forestland on the East coast, mangrove forests in Florida, the Great Plains in the centre of the country, the Mississippi-Missouri river system, the Rocky Mountains west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and temperate rainforests in the Pacific Northwest. The arctic regions of Alaska and the volcanic islands of Hawaii only increase the geographic and climactic diversity.

The climate varies along with the landscape, from sub-tropic in Florida to tundra in Alaska. Large parts of the country have a continental climate, with warm summers and cold winters. Some parts of the United States, particularly parts of California, have a Mediterranean climate.

Economy

Main article: Economy of the United States

The economy of the United States is organized on the capitalist model and is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, a large trade deficit, and rapid advances in technology. The American economy can be regarded as the most important in the world. Several countries have coupled their currency with the dollar, or even use it as a currency, and the American stock markets are globally seen as an indicator of world economy.

The country has rich mineral resources, with extensive gold, oil, coal and uranium deposits. Agriculture brings the country among the top producers of, among others, maize, wheat, sugar and tobacco. American industry produces cars, airplanes and electronics. The biggest sector is however service industries; about three-quarters of Americans are employed in that sector.

The largest trading partner of the USA is its northern neighbor, Canada. Other major partners are Mexico, the European Union and the industrialized nations in the Far East, such as Japan and South Korea. Trade with China is also significant.

See also: List of American companies

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of the United States

Most of the 280 million people currently living in the United States descend from European immigrants that have arrived since the establishment of the first colonies. Major components of the European segment of the United States population are descended from immigrants from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy with many immigrants also from Scandinavian countries and the Slavic and other populations of eastern and southern Europe and French Canada; few immigrants came directly from France. Likewise, while there were few immigrants directly from Spain, Hispanics from Mexico and South and Central America are considered the largest minority group in the country, comprising 13.4% of the population (38.6 million people) in 2002. This has brought increasing use of the Spanish language in the United States (see Languages in the United States). About 12% (2000 census) of the people are African Americans who largely descend from the African slaves that were brought to America. A third significant minority is the Asian American population (3.6%), who are most concentrated on the West Coast. The native population of Native Americans, such as American Indians and Inuit make up less than 1% of the population.

The level of Christian religious devotion in the US is showing a gradual decline, from 86.2% calling themselves Christian in 1990 to 76.5% doing so in 2001 (ARIS 2001). The religious affiliations in 2001 were Protestant 52%, Catholic 24.5%, none 13.2%, Jewish 1.3% and 0.5-0.3% for Muslim, Buddhist, Agnostic, Atheist, Hindu and Unitarian Universalist. There is a significant difference between those who declare themselves to be of a religion and those who are members of a church of that religion. Census Bureau figures (PDF file) show that church membership in 2001 was 53% Christian, 2.3% Jewish and 0.1% Muslim, others lower.

The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence. However, in terms of relative wealth, most Americans enjoy a standard of personal economic wealth that is far greater than that known in the majority of the world. For example, 51% of all households have access to a computer and 41% had access to the Internet in 2000. Furthermore, 67.9% of US households owned their dwellings in 2002.

Culture

Main article: Culture of the United States

American culture has a large influence on the rest of the world, especially the Western world. American music is heard all over the world, and American movies and television shows can be seen almost anywhere. This is in stark contrast to the early days of the American republic, when the country was generally seen as an agricultural backwater with little to offer the culturally advanced world centers of Asia and Europe. Nearing the end of its third century, nearly every major American city offers classical and popular music; historical, scientific and art research centers and museums; dance performances, musicals and plays; outdoor art projects and internationally significant architecture. This development is a result of both contributions by private philanthropists and government funding.

The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which include schools considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world. Among these are the eight Ivy League Universities, elite private universities, numerous private colleges, which provide primarily undergraduate education, and an extensive system of public universities and colleges.

Holidays
Date Name Remarks
January 1 New Year's Day celebrates beginning of year, marks traditional end of "holiday season"
January, third Monday Martin Luther King, Jr Day honors King, Civil Rights leader
February, third Monday Presidents' Day honors former American Presidents, especially Washington and Lincoln
May, last Monday Memorial Day honors service men and women who died in service, marks traditional beginning of summer
July 4 Independence Day celebrates Declaration of Independence, usually called "The Fourth of July"
September, first Monday Labor Day celebrate achievements of workers, marks traditional end of summer
October, second Monday Columbus Day honors Christopher Columbus, traditional discover of the Americas
November 11 Veteran's Day traditional observation of a moment of silence at 11 AM remembering those who fought for peace
November, fourth Thursday Thanksgiving give thanks for autumn harvest, marks traditional beginning of "holiday season"
December 25 Christmas celebrates the nativity of Jesus Christ, also celebrated as secular winter holiday

Related Topics

Main article: List of United States of America-related topics

External links

United States government

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United States Army

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Army is that branch of the United States Armed Forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. Historically, the Army was formed before the Republic, in 1775, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War.

Components of the U.S. Army

The U.S. Army has three components:

All three components have taken part in every war of the United States from World War I onward. The use of the Army Reserve and National Guard increased after the Vietnam War. Reserve and Guard units took part in the Gulf War, peacekeeping in Kosovo, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Structure of the U.S. Army

The U.S. Army is structured roughly:

  1. army group - when required
  2. field army
  3. corps
  4. division
  5. brigade or group: Most American Army divisions are organized in three or more brigades. (See also regiment for cavalry units.)
  6. battalion or squadron: Infantry and artillery units are organized into battalions. Cavalry or armor units are formed into squadrons. A battalion-sized unit is commanded by a lieutenant colonel.
  7. company (military unit) or battery or troop: Artillery units are formed into batteries. Cavalry units are formed into troops. A company-sized unit is usually led by a captain.
  8. platoon
  9. squad or section
  10. crew or fire team

The Army is organized by function. Combat forces include Infantry, Armor, Cavalry, and Special Operations Forces. Combat support troops include Artillery, Army Aviation, combat engineers, Army Logistics, Army Medical Corps, Army Transportation, Army Ordnance, Adjutant General's Corps, Signal Corps, and the Judge Advocate Generals Corps.

Rank Structure

The Officer Corps provides leadership and managerial functions, and is composed of

There are several sources of commissioned officers: Officers receive a "Commission" assigning them to the Officer Corps by act of Congress. Commissioned officers are assigned to a branch of service until they reach the rank of Brigadier General, where it is assumed that they are competent to command soldiers of all branches.

Once commissioned, an officer attends several levels of professional education, starting with branch qualification in their respective branch and concluding in Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Professional education is required for promotion at certain grades.

The Warrant Officer Corps is largely composed of highly trained specialists in certain select areas who must have a rank commensurate with their responsibility. Warrant officers receive the same pay as an analagous commissioned officer (a WO1 is paid the same as a second lieutenant, CW2 as a first lieutenant, CW3 as a captain, and CW4 as a major) but rank below commissioned officers and above non-commissioned officers.

The primary sources for Warrant Officers are the various Warrant Officer Training Programs at military posts and installations around the United States.

The Non-Commissioned Officer Corps (or NCO Corps) is the first line of leadership for the Enlisted members of the Army, and includes the ranks of

Training for Non-Commissioned Officers takes place at any of the various NCO training centers around the world.

It should be noted here that it is the outstanding quality of the Non-Commissioned Officer ranks which has largely built the excellent reputation of the United States Army. Until relatively recent history, most countries depended upon their officer corps to micromanage strategy, tactics and virtually every other aspect of military operations. With the development of the NCO Corps, the United States Army took a giant step toward utilizing the skills, intelligence, adaptability and independence of its citizens during times of conflict. The confidence and esteem in which the Officer Corps holds the NCOs which serve in the United States Army is based upon hard-won combat experience. This experience has repeatedly shown that rank is no indicator of leadership ability, and that leaders will emerge during times of hardship and conflict. Many military historians have held that this is the true strength of any military organization which serves a democracy.

Enlisted ranks are

Training for enlisted soldiers usually consists of Basic Training, and Advanced Individual Training in their primary Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) at any of the numerous MOS training facilities around the world.

All members of the Army must take an oath upon being sworn in as members, swearing (or affirming) to "protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic." This emphasis on the defense of the United States Constitution illustrates the concern of the framers that the military be subordinate to legitimate civilian authority. The civilian executive is the Secretary of the Army, formerly the Secretary of War, at the founding of the Republic.

Leadership

The professional head of the United States Army is the Army Chief of Staff. This position is filled by a four star general who sits on the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. As with the other members of that committee, the Army Chief of Staff is not in the direct chain of command. His function is administrative and policy making. The current Army Chief of Staff is General Peter Schoomaker.

The most senior Army generals who are directly in the chain of command are those who head up the regional joint commands around the world. An example is General John Abazaid, CINCCENTCOM, the Commander-in-Chief Central Command. Three star positions in the Army include some deputy commanders-in-chief of the regional commands, heads of the army sections of those commands, and the general officers commanding of corps.

Major Commands of the United States Army

Major Commands of the US Army
Major Command and CommandersLocation of Headquarters
Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM)-Major General Keith B. Alexander Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Criminal Investigation Command (CID)-Major General Donald J. Ryder Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Corps of Engineers (USACE)-Lieutenant General Robert B. FlowersWashington, D.C.
Medical Command (MEDCOM)-Lieutenant General James B. Peake Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Army Materiel Command (AMC)-General Paul J. Kern Alexandria, Virginia
Training & Doctrine Command (TRADOC)-Leiutenant General Larry R. Jordan Fort Monroe, Virginia
Forces Command (FORSCOM)-General Larry R. Ellis Fort McPherson, Georgia
US Army South (ARSO)-Major General Alfred A. ValenzuelaFort Sam Houston, Texas
Special Operations Command (ARSOC)-Lieutenant General Philip R. Kesinger Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC)-Major General Ann E. Dunwoody Fort Eustis, Alexandria, Virginia
Space & Missile Defense Command (SMDC)-Lieutenant General Joseph M. Consumano, Jr.Arlington, Virginia
8th US Army (EUSA)-Lieutenant General Charles C. CampbellYongsan Army Garrison, Seoul
Army Pacific Command (ARPAC)-Lieutenant General James L. CampbellFort Shafter, Hawaii
US Army Europe, 7th Army (AREUR)-General B. B. BellCampbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany
Army Central Command (ARCENT)-Lieutenant General David D. McKiernanFort McPherson, Georgia
Arny Reserve Command (ARC)-Lieutenant General James R. Helmly Fort McPherson, Georgia
Army National Guard (ARNG)-Lieutenant General Roger G. Schultz Washington, D.C.

Formations of the United States Army

First Army "First In Deed" (Reserve)

78th "Lightning" Division, Edison, NJ (Training Support)
1st Brigade (Training Support)
2nd Brigade (Training Support)
3rd Brigade (Training Support)
4th Brigade (Training Support)
5th Brigade "We Dare" (Training Support)

85th "Custer" Division (Training Support)
1st Brigade (Training Support)
2nd Brigade (Training Support)
3rd Brigade (Training Support)
4th Brigade (Training Support)

87th Division "Golden Acorn", Birmingham, AL (Training Support)
1st Brigade (Training Support)
2nd Brigade (Training Support)
3rd Brigade (Training Support)
4th Brigade (Training Support)
5th Brigade (Training Support)

Army Units
4th Cavalry Brigade (Training Support)
157th Infantry Brigade (Training Support)
188th Infantry Brigade (Training Support)
205th Infantry Brigade (Separate) (Light)

Third Army: Army Central Command (ARCENT)

C/JTF-Kuwait
ARCENT Kuwait
ARCENT Saudi
ARCENT Qatar
Army Prepositioned Stock (APS-3)
Army Prepositioned Stock (APS-5)

Fifth Army (Reserve)

7th Infantry Division "Bayonets", Carson, CO (Light)
39th Infantry Brigade (Light) (Separate)
41st Infantry Brigade (Light) (Separate)
45th Infantry Brigade (Light) (Separate)

75th Division, Houston, TX (Training Support)
1st Brigade (Training Support)
2nd Brigade (Training Support)
3rd Brigade (Training Support)
4th Brigade (Training Support)

91st Division, Houston, TX (Training Support)
1st Brigade (Training Support)
2nd Brigade (Training Support)
3rd Brigade (Training Support)
4th Brigade (Training Support)

Army Units
5th Armored Brigade (Training Support)
120th Infantry Brigade (Training Support)
166th Aviation Brigade (Training Support)
191st Infantry Brigade (Training Support)

Seventh Army: United States Army Europe

V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany
1st Infantry Division ("The Big Red One")
1st Armored Divsion-- Wiesbaden, Germany

Eighth Army: Korea

2nd Infantry Division ("Indian Head" Division)
25th Infantry Division (Light) ("Tropic Lightning")

I Corps, Fort Lewis, Washington ("America's Corps")
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Light)
1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light)

III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas
1st Cavalry Division
4th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
--III Corps U.S. Army National Guard
7th Infantry Division (Light) ("Bayonet" Division)
XVIII Airborne Corps
3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized} ("Rock of the Marne")
3rd Brigade ("Sledgehammer").

10th Mountain Division (Light}
1st Brigade
2nd Brigade
27th Brigade (Orions)-- New York National Guard
82nd Airborne Division
82nd Aviation Brigade

325th Airborne Infantry Regiment
2nd Battalion 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment
3rd Battalion 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
1st Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
3rd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment

505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
2nd Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
3rd Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (Screaming Eagles)-- Fort Campbell, Kentucky

XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery
18th Field Artillery Brigadet

2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment

16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne)

18th Aviation Brigade (Airborne)

20th Engineer Brigade (Combat)(Airborne)

35th Signal Brigade (Airborne)

108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade

229th Aviation Regiment (Attack)
1-229th Attack Helicopter Battalion

3-229th Attack Helicopter Regiment

525th Military Intelligence Brigade (Airborne)

See also:

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United States Union Party

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Union Party was a short-lived political party in the United States, formed in 1936 by a coalition of radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend, and Gerald L.K. Smith, who had taken control of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth movement after Long's death in 1935. Each of those people hoped to channel their wide followings into support for the Union Party, which proposed a radical populist alternative to the New Deal reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, but critics charged that the Union Party was in fact controlled by Father Coughlin, a former Roosevelt supporter who had broken with Roosevelt and had begun an ugly slide into anti-Semitism and demagoguery by 1936.

The Union Party nominated William Lemke, a U.S. Congressman from North Dakota, for the U.S. presidential election, 1936. Lemke received 892,267 votes nationwide, or less than 2% of the total popular vote. The Union Party was disbanded shortly thereafter.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "United States Union Party."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Union

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
UNIEnglishUnion Network InternationalN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Union

Synonyms: brotherhood (n), conglutination (n), conjugation (n), coupling (n), join (n), labor union (n), marriage (n), mating (n), matrimony (n), pairing (n), sexual union (n), sum (n), trade union (n), trades union (n), unification (n), uniting (n), wedlock (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: nonunion (adj), separation (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Union

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agreement

Conformity; conformance; uniformity; consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.

Combination

Noun: combination; mixture; junction; union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization.

Concord

Noun: concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue; agreement; sympathy, empathy; (love); response; union, unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace; unanimity; (assent); league; happy family.

Concurrence

Noun: concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union; agreement; consilience; consent, coincidence; (assent); alliance; concert, additivity, synergy; partnership.

Cooperation

Noun: cooperation; coadjuvancy, coadjutancy; coagency, coefficiency; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation; union; additivity, combination; collusion.

Government

National government, nation, state, country, nation-state, dominion, republic, empire, union, democratic republic; kingdom, principality.

Marriage

Noun: marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie.

Party

Society, association; institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination; Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue; freemasonry; party spirit; (cooperation).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Union

English words defined with "Union": company union, Constitutional Union Party, craft union, customs union ♦ industrial union ♦ labor union, Legislative Union ♦ Postal Union, Primary union ♦ Secondary union ♦ Teamsters Union, trade union, trades union ♦ union card, Union down, Union joint, union member, union representative, union shop, Union soldier ♦ vertical union. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Union": affiliated union ♦ BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE, LABOR UNION ♦ discriminated union, disjoint union ♦ European Monetary Union, European Union Eco-labelling Board ♦ Hotel and Restaurant Union ♦ independent union ♦ local union ♦ non-affiliated union ♦ occupational union ♦ preferential union shop ♦ sectoral union, single trade union centre ♦ trade union representative ♦ unaffiliated union, union label, Union membership, Union Network International, union of automata, unitary trade union centre. (references)
Etymologies containing "Union": Zollverein. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Union" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (community, union), French (all-union, association, conjunction, union, unity), German (joining, junction, union), Papiamen (union), Spanish (union), Swedish (union), Welsh (direct, exact, just, straight).

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Modern Usage: Union

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Who now has the strength to stand up against both Saruman and Sauronand the union of the two towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Actually, I was thinking of filing a grievance with the union. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

I know, we gotta rewrite the State of the Union. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

It's a union job. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

We both want a fair union contract (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Lyrics

The union of the snake is on the climb (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran)

And the union people crawled away (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I don't pay no union dues, ("King of the Road"; performing artist: Roger Miller)

Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues (KING OF THE ROAD; performing artist: Roger Miller)

The in flies a guy who's dressed up just like Union Jack (GET OFF OF MY CLOUD; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Clever

British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply (references; author: unknown)

We make great money! We have great benefits! We do no work! We are union members! (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Triumphant Union and the Canadian Confederation: 1863-1867 (1969)

Union Station (1950)

State of the Union (1948)

Western Union (1941)

Union Pacific (1939)

Song Titles

Don’t Give In to Him (performing artist: Gary Pucket and the Union Gap)

WOMAN WOMAN  (performing artist: Gary Puckett & Union Gap )

Lady Willpower (performing artist: Gary Puckett and The Union Gap)

Over You (performing artist: Gary Puckett and The Union Gap)

This Girl Is a Woman Now (performing artist: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Union

DomainTitle

References

  • Bangkok Union Insurance Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Brau Union Hungaria: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Davao Union Cement Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • First Union Real Estate Equity & Mortgage Investments: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Thai Rung Union Car Public Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (reference)

  • Acuition: Computer Applications: Current Developments in College Union Activities (reference)

  • Afl-Cio Guide to Union Sponsored Scholarships, Awards and Student Financial Aid (reference)

  • Not Your Father's Union Movement: Inside the Afl-Cio (reference)

  • Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, Afl-Cio, 1960-1993 (Labor and Human Resources) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Directory Of 9 300 Trade And Professional Associations In The European Union (reference)

  • Access To European Union (reference)

  • Pratt Credit Union Accountant (reference)

  • Argus Of Fremont Newark And Union City California (reference)

  • Australian Education Union South Australian Branch Journal (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Divided Union - The Story of the Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. 5 - Conclusion at Appomatox (reference)

  • Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Rozhdestvensky, Boylan, Glushchak, European Union Opera (reference)

  • The Divided Union - The Story of the Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. 2 - Bloody Stalemate (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Union

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William Bowie Chief of geodesy from 1909 till 1936 retirement Bowie Medal of American Geophysical Union established in his honor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Aerial photograph of Lake Union, Seattle NOAA ship base in lower center of photograph. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Lake Union in Seattle". The present-day NOAA Ship base is located in the near left corner of the lake. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 78. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Heading toward Ballard Locks from Lake Union. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Damage caused by Union City Tornado. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Union City Tornado. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

"Distribution of Earthquakes" as published in the "Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, p. 93, May, 1936. Captain Nicholas Heck of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey noted that earthquakes were associated with the Mid- Atlantic Ridge in his accompanying paper. Heck first produced a world seismicity map showing the activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1932. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Happy crew members as the RAINIER approaches Lake Union ship base at the end of a long surveying season. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Deceased fighter pilots from the former Soviet Union are buried in this graveyard near Mari Air Base, Estonia. Tail fins from the pilots' aircraft were used to make the tombstones for their graves. (P.; photo by Senior Master Sgt. Terry Porch)..

Decked out in a Civil War Union soldier's uniform, Master Sgt. Jari Villanueva stands at a bugle display table at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., during a living history performance of military buglers. Villanueva is holding a keyed bugle, which was an.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Union
 

"Union Pacific and Sky" by Luke Partridge
Commentary: "Shiny, new Union Pacific Tanker cars. Lomo."		"Union Jack" by Vi Xs
Commentary: "Union Jack."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Union".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Stagecoach; horse; trot; neigh; transportation; transport; western union.Wedding; church; groom; bride; bells; bells; bridal; espousal; marriage; marriage ceremony; matrimony; nuptial rite; nuptials; spousal; union; wedlock.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Union

AuthorQuotation

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Aesop

In union there is strength.

Bishop Jeremy Taylor

The union of hands and hearts.

Daniel Webster

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

Millard Fillmore

Peace at Any Price; Peace and Union.

President Abraham Lincoln.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Sallust

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Samuel Butler

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Union

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

So that their politic societies all began from a voluntary union, and the mutual agreement of men freely acting in the choice of their governors, and forms of government. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Rome, May 26, 1906. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Union

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

There was a languor, a want of spirits, a want of union, which could not be got over

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

I tried to make this clear to her also, adding some warnings on the dangers that surely awaited a union in which mutual love was wanting

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Secresy to these wretches is the unity which serves as a basis of union.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His face was kind and he joined gently the fingers of each hand, forming a frail cage by the union of their tips

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Union

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Enzymes are classified according to the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry. (references)

The definitions are derived from official public sources including the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and the European Union [EU]. (references)

Diphyllobothriasis occurs in areas where lakes and rivers coexist with human consumption of raw or undercooked freshwater fish.  Such areas are found in the Northern Hemisphere (Europe, newly independent states of the former Soviet Union (NIS), North America, Asia), and in Uganda and Chile. (references)

Business

In 1987 CANITEC created UNION DE COMPRAS CANITEC. (references)

This can protect undemocratic or corrupt union leaders. (references)

Countries from the Europeon Union offer close competition. (references)

Children

Romania

Inspectors who visited institutions and identified humanitarian needs at the request of the European Union Commission reported that while conditions were not equally poor in all institutions, the general situation was unacceptable in terms of basic infrastructure as well as hygiene, medical care, nutrition, and general assistance. (references)

India

In February 2000, NHRC Chairman Justice J.S. Verma asked chief ministers of all the states and administrators of all the union territories "to issue clear directions to the inspector generals of prisons to ensure that mentally ill persons are not kept in jail under any circumstances." However, there was little follow-up to the NHRC direction. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

Of these 117 were from the countries of the former Soviet Union. (references)

Economic History

Bermuda

The major companies have union contracts. (references)

Japan

Labor union membership is about 12 million. (references)

Kenya

Ruling party, Kenya African National Union. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The taxi union criticized the Government's action. (references)

India

The All Manipur Students Union (AMSU) called on all 60 members of the state legislature to resign. (references)

Iraq

In 2000 unknown persons killed the leader of the Democratic Nationalist Union of Kurdistan, Sirbit Mahmud. (references)

Minorities

Bulgaria

For the first time, the MRF has representation on boards that will distribute European Union accession funds for development. (references)

Latvia

After independence the status of approximately 670,000 persons, mostly ethnic Russians, changed from citizens of the Soviet Union to noncitizen residents in Latvia. (references)

Hong Kong

An Indonesian Migrant Workers Union was established in 2000 to unite Indonesian domestic helpers throughout Asia and to protect members from abuse and exploitation. (references)

Political Economy

Argentina

The Radical Civic Union (UCR) is the country's oldest party. (references)

France

Both Chirac and Jospin are strong advocates of the European Union. (references)

JORDAN

If the Ministry fails to act within two weeks, the union may strike. (references)

Political Rights

Romania

The PSD governed as a minority government, with support from the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). (references)

Somalia

Several new political parties were formed in Puntland during the year, including the Union of the People of Somaliland (UDSL). (references)

Tanzania

Some transportation operators were asked by union officials to transport citizens from the mainland to Zanzibar without charge. (references)

Trade

Sweden

EU Customs Union System applies to all imports. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The GCC is not yet, however, a full-fledged customs union. (references)

Finland

It is involved in cooperation in the OECD, EU and Berne Union. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Workers in any company with 10 or more employees have the right to union representation. (references)

Senegal

It is possible for U.S. visitors to receive wire transfer money via Western Union and Money Gram. (references)

Morocco

U.S. citizens and member countries of the European Union do not need a visa for entry into Morocco. (references)

Women

Sweden

A third option, and by far the most common, involves settling allegations with the employee's labor union as mediator. (references)

Spain

A 1999 report by the General Workers' Union shows that women's salaries were 30 percent less than those of their male counterparts. (references)

Turkmenistan

However, in April the Women's Union, a government-sponsored NGO cohosted a seminar on women's rights that focused on domestic violence. (references)

Worker Rights

Uzbekistan

No alternative union structures exist. (references)

Chile

Registering a union is a simple process. (references)

Korea

As few as two employees may form a union. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Union

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Kevin Kline

We used the Emma Willard School for Girls up in Troy, New York for the exteriors and the interiors were actually shot here in New York City up at Union Seminary and a bit at St. John the Divine. We just had to find big kind of neo-gothic architecture.

Robert Novak

Mr. Daniels, the veteran watchdog organization, the National Taxpayers Union, doesn't quite accept the president's posture as the guardian of fiscal responsibility.

Rush Limbaugh

Take your complaints to the former eastern bloc of the Soviet Union or to Africa, or Third World nations, wherever you want, and tell them to clean up.

Walter Cronkite

I know they were. But look what happened, we turned Europe into a viable organization and indeed, by so doing, fostered the European Union even now. Elimination, almost, of a danger war in that area. But we've got to do this now in the Middle East.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Union

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809I am happy in this opportunity of committing the arduous affairs of our Government to the collected wisdom of the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Fifteen years ago North Vietnam, with the logistical support of Communist China and the Soviet Union, launched a campaign to impose a Communist government on South Vietnam by instigating and supporting a revolution.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Taken in sum, I can report that the state of the Union is good.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Militarily, politically, economically, and in spirit, the state of our Union is sound.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Together, they weathered the storm and preserved the union.

George Bush

1989-1993I'm here to speak to you and to the American people about the State of the Union about our world, the changes we've seen, the challenges we face.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Ladies and gentlemen, the state of our Union is strong.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Union

"Union" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 76.08% of the time. "Union" is used about 17,588 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (common)76.08%13,381681
Noun (proper)23.92%4,2082,335
                    Total100.00%17,588N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Union

The following table summarizes the usage of "Union" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
UnionLast name20036,611
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Union

CountryNameCountryName
Austria

Brau Union Osterreich A.G.

Canada

Union Gas Limited

France

Union de Banques Arabes et Francaises

Hong Kong

Oriental Union Holdings Ltd.

Hungary

Brau Union Hungaria

Israel

Union Bank of Israel Limited

Japan

Union Optical Co., Ltd.

Norway

Union Bank of Norway

Peru

Union de Cervecerias Peruanas Backus y Johnston S.A.

Philippines

Davao Union Cement Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Union


1. Union, AL (town, FIPS 77616)
Location: 32.99343 N, 87.90550 W
Population (1990): 321 (120 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Union, IA (city, FIPS 79545)
Location: 42.24294 N, 93.06263 W
Population (1990): 448 (223 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 50258
Country: USA

3. Union, IL (village, FIPS 76706)
Location: 42.23428 N, 88.54351 W
Population (1990): 542 (199 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 60180
Country: USA

4. Union, KY (city, FIPS 78384)
Location: 38.95291 N, 84.66917 W
Population (1990): 1001 (314 housing units)
Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 41091
Country: USA

5. Union, ME
Zip Code(s): 04862
Country: USA

6. Union, MI
Zip Code(s): 49130
Country: USA

7. Union, MO (city, FIPS 74626)
Location: 38.44826 N, 91.01262 W
Population (1990): 5909 (2306 housing units)
Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 63084
Country: USA

8. Union, MS (town, FIPS 75360)
Location: 32.57146 N, 89.11631 W
Population (1990): 1875 (829 housing units)
Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 39365
Country: USA

9. Union, NE (village, FIPS 49635)
Location: 40.81468 N, 95.92073 W
Population (1990): 299 (125 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 68455
Country: USA

10. Union, NH
Zip Code(s): 03887
Country: USA

11. Union, NJ (CDP, FIPS 74510)
Location: 40.69530 N, 74.26974 W
Population (1990): 50024 (19334 housing units)
Area: 23.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 07083
Country: USA

12. Union, OH (city, FIPS 78470)
Location: 39.90270 N, 84.30992 W
Population (1990): 5501 (1826 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 45322
Country: USA

13. Union, OR (city, FIPS 75850)
Location: 45.20901 N, 117.86713 W
Population (1990): 1847 (802 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 97883
Country: USA

14. Union, SC (city, FIPS 73105)
Location: 34.72280 N, 81.62381 W
Population (1990): 9836 (4158 housing units)
Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 29379
Country: USA

15. Union, UT (CDP, FIPS 78110)
Location: 40.61910 N, 111.87257 W
Population (1990): 13684 (5399 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

16. Union, WA
Zip Code(s): 98592
Country: USA

17. Union, WV (town, FIPS 81940)
Location: 37.59063 N, 80.54319 W
Population (1990): 566 (296 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 24983
Country: USA

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Expressions: Union

Expressions using "Union": a happy union ♦ Act of Union ♦ affiliated union ♦ art union ♦ be a member in the ranks of a union ♦ belonging to the trade union ♦ bond of union ♦ bring about a union ♦ cement a union ♦ company union ♦ connubial union ♦ constitutional Union Party ♦ Cooper Union ♦ Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ♦ craft union ♦ credit union ♦ customs union ♦ discriminated union ♦ disjoint union ♦ European Broadcasting Union ♦ European Union ♦ Evangelical Union ♦ Fork Union ♦ fraternal union ♦ Hotel and Restaurant Union ♦ Hypostatic union ♦ Illegitimate union ♦ independent union ♦ industrial union ♦ inside union ♦ International Scientific Radio Union ♦ International Telecommunication Union ♦ international Telecommunications Union ♦ International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ♦ join a union ♦ labor union ♦ labour union ♦ Latin union ♦ Legislative Union ♦ live together in perfect union ♦ local union ♦ Mano River Union ♦ Mount Union ♦ occupational union ♦ Pam American Union ♦ pipe union ♦ postal Union ♦ preferential union shop ♦ primary union ♦ seamen's union ♦ secondary union ♦ sectoral union ♦ serve in the ranks of an union ♦ sexual union ♦ single trade union centre ♦ socket union ♦ soviet union ♦ student union ♦ teamsters Union ♦ Tee piece union ♦ the european union ♦ the Hypostatic Union ♦ the soviet union ♦ the union ♦ the union of england and scotland ♦ the union of great britain and ireland ♦ trade union ♦ trade union congress ♦ trade union member ♦ trade union movement ♦ trade union representative ♦ trade union supporter ♦ trades union ♦ unaffiliated union ♦ union Army ♦ Union Beach ♦ union boss ♦ Union Bridge ♦ Union by the first ♦ union by the first intention ♦ union by the second intention ♦ union card ♦ Union Center ♦ Union Church ♦ Union City ♦ Union County ♦ Union Dale ♦ union density ♦ union down ♦ union dues ♦ union flag ♦ union gap ♦ Union Grove ♦ Union Hall ♦ Union Hill ♦ union jack ♦ union joint ♦ union label ♦ union leader ♦ Union Lists [Publication Type] ♦ union member. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Union": union-african, union-agreed, union-backed, union-based, union-bashing, union-building, union-busting, union-controlled, union-corporate, union-czechoslovak, union-dominated, union-focused, union-government, union-independent, union-jack, union-jack-encrusted, Union-jack-i'm-backing-britain, union-led, union-management, union-negotiated, union-organized, union-oriented, union-party, union-patriotic, union-public, union-recognition, union-related, union-republic, union-republican, union-set, union-shipping, union-smashing, union-sponsored, union-style, union-to-union, union-united, union-wide.

Ending with "Union": all-union, anti-trade-union, anti-union, ex-union, inter-union, intra-union, management-union, non-union, pre-union, pro-union, re-union, single-union, trades-union, trade-union.

Containing "Union": non-union-regulated, trades-union-mark, trade-union-sponsored.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Union

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

western union

8,485

gabrielle union

830

navy federal credit union

7,427

america first credit union

815

credit union

5,953

union bank

792

trans union

5,750

federal credit union

712

first union

4,218

union city ca

697

san diego union tribune

2,703

union nj

688

first union bank

2,146

arrowhead credit union

685

european union

2,138

marine federal credit union

677

union

1,985

union station

676

florida times union

1,855

suncoast school federal credit union

673

union bank of california

1,767

arizona federal credit union

614

union planter bank

1,701

union leader

602

pentagon federal credit union

1,572

mountain america credit union

593

union planter

1,512

teacher federal credit union

581

times union

1,330

first union center

570

albany times union

1,126

golden one credit union

570

union tribune

1,043

wescom credit union

541

labor union

893

golden 1 credit union

529

state employee credit union

884

union pacific railroad

516

union pacific

839

desert school federal credit union

516
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Union

Language Translations for "Union"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

union (community), sindikatë (combine, syndicate, syndication, trade union), shoqatë (association, college, conference, fold, league, sodality), rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, circuit, compass, concerning, coterie, disc, district, gabion, girth, gyre, periphery, range, region, rim, ring, rondure, round, somewhere), rakord (faucet), martesë (cross, espousal, marriage, match, matrimony, noose, nuptial, splice, wedding, wedlock), bashkues (connective, coupler, coupling, pin, solder), bashkim profesional (trade union), bashkim (affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, coalescence, community, compound, confederation, conflux, conjunction, consolidation, coupling, fusion, hookup, integration, interconnection, interflow, interfusion, joinder, joining, joint, junction, league, ligature, linkage, merger, reconcilability, reunion, seam, soldering, splice, unification, welding). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نقابي (syndicalistic, trade unionist), ‏نقابة عمال (trade union), ‏وصيلة, ‏توحيد (conjunction, consolidation, integration, unification), ‏زواج (espousal, getting married, marriage, match, matrimony, splice, wedding, wedlock), ‏الاتحاد, ‏إتحادي (federal, federative), ‏إتحاد (all-union, association, combination, confederation, conference, federation, incorporation, league, merger, oneness, unification, unity), ‏رمز الإتحاد, ‏شمل إتحاد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съюз (alliance, conjunction, connective, federation, guild, hookup, league, line up), съчетание (combination, composite, concord, wedding), съгласие (accord, accordance, agreement, approval, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, congruence, consensus, consent, consonance, consort, fiat, grant, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding, unison, unity, yea, yes), съединение (coalescence, combination, compound, conjugation, conjunction, fault, hookup, interconnection, interconnexion, interlock, join, joining, joint, junction, link, linkage, meeting), университетски клуб за дебати, сглобка, хармония (accord, agreement, balance, concord, euphony, harmony, rapport, tune, unison, unity), трейдюнион (trade union), обединение (coalition, combine, consolidation, incorporation, merger, syndicate, trust), женитба (contract, espousal, hymen, marriage, match), единство (marriage, oneness, solidarity, uniformity, unity), брак (dross, hymen, loss, marriage, match, matrimony, scraps, wastage, waste, waster, wedlock, write off), професионален съюз (brotherhood, trade union), приют за бедни (alms house, poor house, workhouse). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

联合 (Coalesce, Coalesced, Coalescing, Coalition, Confederated, Confederating, jointly), 聯盟 (alliance, coalition), 盟 (oath, pledge, to ally), 會 (accounting, association, be able to, be possible, can, group, to assemble, to balance an account, to gather, to meet, to see), 工會 , 和 (and, cap, harmony, mix together, peace, respond in singing, soft, to blend, together with, warm, with). (various references)

   

Czech

  

unie, svaz (association, confederation, federation, fellowship, league, the union), spojování (coupling), spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, link, rapport, relation), soulad (community, concordance, harmony), shoda (accord, accordance, agreement, community, compliance, concord, conformity, congruence, conjuncture, correspondence, Deuce, harmony, oneness, parity, unanimity, understanding, unity), sdružení (association, clearing house, corporation, guild, society, syndicate), konfederace (commonwealth, confederation), jednota (club, oneness, unity), federace (federation). (various references)

   

Danish

  

union, sammenvoksning (accretion, coalescence, coalition, concrescence, concretion, concretions, conjunctiva, synechia), overgang (disruptive breakdown, junction, stop, transition), muffesamlestykke (socket union), muffeforskruning (socket union), foreningsmængde. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vereniging (academy, association, circle, club, combination, joining, junction, society), unie (disjunction, INCLUSIVE-OR operation, logical add, OR operation). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

unuigo (combination, joining, junction), unio. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sameining (combination, joining, junction), felagsskapur (academy, circle, club, corporation, society, trade-union). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یگانگی وحدت , پیوند (Confederacy, Consociation, Graft, Link, Slur, Zonule), پیوستگی (Affinity, Bond, Coalition, Cohesion, Continuity, Incorporation, Joinder, Juncture, Unity, Zygosis), وصلت , الحاق (Access, Addendum, Adhesion, Incorporation, Insertion, Inset, Interpolation, Joinder, Juncture, Supplement), اتحادیه (Circuit, Confederacy, Guild, League), اتحادواتفاق , اتصال (Coitus, Conjuncture, Connexion, Contact, Continuity, Incorporation, Junction, Juncture, Linkage), اشتراک منافع . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhtymä (combine, concern), yhteenliittyminen (coalition), yhdiste (compound), valtioliitto, liitto (alliance, connection, federation, league, treaty), liitos (join, joint, scarf, seam), kiinnikasvu. (various references)

   

French

  

union (unity), syndicat (trade union). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

uny. (various references)

   

German

  

Vereinigung (academy, amalgamation, association, bringing together, coalescence, coalition, combining, consolidation, consortium, coordination, coupling, federation, fraternity, fusion, guild, incorporation, merging, organization, pooling, unification, uniting), Vereinigungsmenge, Verein (association, club, guild, joint, organization, outfit, social club, society), Gewerkschaft (labor union, trade union, tradeunion, trade-union). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ένωση (amalgamation, combination, coupling, fusion, guild, join, junction, juncture, vinculum). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

Bashkimi Sovjetik (Soviet Union, USSR). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יחוד (distinction, privacy, setting aside, singularity, speciality, unification, uniqueness), לכוד (consolidation, hooked, unity), אגוד (association, binding together, guild, joined, organization, society, tied), ארצות הברית (united states), התאחות (accretion, linking), התאחדות (confederation, federation, organization), התאגדות (association, organization, syndicate), הסתדרות (arrangement, association, coming out well, federation, organization). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

unió, szakszervezet (labour organization, labour union, the union, trade union, trades union), egyesítés (amalgamation, fusion, incorporation, integration, join up, joinder, synthesis, unification). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

Sovétríkin (Soviet Union, USSR). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penyatuan, ikatan (bond, knot, league, loop, society, tie). (various references)

   

Italian

  

unione (agreement, alliance, association, blending, club, cohesion, combination, harmony, unity), sindacato (association, labor union, labour union, syndicate, trade union, tradeunion), lega (alliance, alloy, cartel, combine, confederacy, league, waistband). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

結束 (unity), 一致 (agreement, coincidence, conformity, consistency, co-operation, match), 合併 (affiliation, amalgamation, annexation, coalition, combination, consolidation, fusion, incorporation, merger). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ごうどう (amalgamation, combination, congruence, fusion, incorporation), けっそく (unity), けつごう (combination, missing issue), むすび (conclusion, ending), わごう (agreement, concord, harmony, unity), れんめい (alliance, federation, joint signature, league), れんごう (alliance, combination), れんぽう (commonwealth, confederation, federation, federation of states, mountain range), ごうへい (affiliation, amalgamation, annexation, coalition, combination, consolidation, fusion, incorporation, merger), だんけつ (combination, unity), ごういつ (oneness, unification), がっぺい (affiliation, amalgamation, annexation, coalition, combination, consolidation, fusion, incorporation, merger), いっち (agreement, coincidence, conformity, consistency, co-operation, match), いっちだんけつ (solidarity, total cooperation), いっしんどうたい (one flesh), せつごう (joining), せつぞく (changing trains, connection, join, link), どうめい (alliance, league, same name), くみあい (association), ユニオン , ごうりゅう (confluence, linking up, merge). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

조합 (Combination, combinatorial). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheshaght keirdee (trade union), keird-heshaght (trade union), keird-chummyn (trade union), junt T (T union). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

Sovjetunionen (Soviet Union, USSR). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

union. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ionunay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

união (bond, coalescence, concert, confederacy, coupling, joinder, junction, knitting, knot, link-up, marriage, matchup, unity, yoke), soldadura (brazing). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

unitate (concurrence, conformity, identity, integer, oneness, organization, uniformity, unit, unity, whole), unire (accord, agreement, alliance, coalescence, coalition, combination, confederacy, confluence, conjugation, conjunction, connection, harmony, hook up, reunion, solder, solidarity, unity), unional, uniune (association, club, society), racord (connection, coupling, inlet, joint, tap), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, uniformity, unison, unity), alianţã (agnation, alliance, confederacy, connection, league), asociaţie (association, company, foundation, guild, junction, organization, society), bunã înţelegere (peace), cãsãtorie (espousal, marriage, matrimony, splice, tie, wedlock), înfrãţire, coalizare (coalition), sindical (syndicalist), sindicaliza (syndicate), sindicat (combine, syndicate, trade union), coaliţie (coalition, league). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

союз (alliance, cement, confederation, conjunction, guild, joinder, league). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

unija, ujedinjenje (coalition, consolidation, joinder, unification), veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, rapport, relation, stay, tie, touch), studentski klub, sjedinjenje (coalescence), savez (alliance, covenant, league, marriage), bračna zajednica (alliance, conjugality). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

unión (coalescence, coalition, commune, community, confederation, consolidation, coupling, federation, join, joining, joint, junction, league, link up, linkage, marriage, mating, merger, total), sindicato (labor union, labour union, syndicate, trade union). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

union, sammanslutning (association, coalition, combine, federation, fellowship), koppling (clutch, connection, coupling, gear, junction), förening (annexation, association, coalescence, combination, compound, joinder, junction, society, unification, uniting), förbund (alliance, association, compact, confederacy, confederation, covenant, federation, joinder, league). (various references)

   

Thai

  

โซเวียต (Soviet Union), สหภาพแรงงาน (labor union). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vida yuvası, sendika (syndicate, trade union), kavuşma (coming together, convergence, convergency, synod), ittifak (agreement, alliance, confederation, federation, hookup), evlilik (conjugal, connubial, hymen, marital, marriage, matrimony, nuptial, spousal, wedlock), dernek (association, club, college, corporation, fellowship, fraternity, gild, guild, institution, league, society), darülaceze (almshouse, hospice, hospital, poorhouse, workhouse), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, unit, unity), birleşme (accord, alliance, association, coalescence, coalition, cohesion, concrescence, concretion, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, fusion, hookup, incorporation, integration, joinder, joining, juncture, meeting, merger, reunion, unification), bilezik (bangle, bracelet, collet, wristlet). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

soяuz, birleюik. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

унія, союз (alliance, confederation, federation, junction), з'єднання (articulation, association, coalescence, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, coupling, hookup, joinder, joining, junction, ligature, link up, linkage, linking, mounting), професійна спілка. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự liên kết (association, binding, coalition, conjunction), sự kết hợp (aggregation, association, combination, conjunction, linkage), sự hoà hợp hiệp hội, sự hợp nhất (amalgamation, incorporatedness, mergence, unification), sự cộng đồng, sự đoàn kết (solidarity), liên minh (allied, confederate, league), liên hiệp sự nhất trí, liên hiệp (confederate), liên bang sự kết hôn, ống nối (adapter), đồng minh (league). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

undebol (united), undeb (unity), cyfundeb (connection), cyfalle (spouse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Union

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adfinitate, adfinitatum, adunatio, coetu, coetum, coetus, coetuum, coitu, coitum, coitus, concordia, congregatio, congregatus, congregatusque, congressus, conpositio, conpositione, conpositionem, conpositionis, conspiratio, conventus, copulatione. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Union

Derivations

Words beginning with "Union": unionisation, unionisations, unionise, unionised, unionises, unionising, unionism, unionisms, unionist, unionists, unionization, unionizations, unionize, unionized, unionizes, unionizing, unions. (additional references)

Words ending with "Union": antiunion, bunion, communion, disunion, grunion, intercommunion, interunion, misunion, multiunion, nonunion, preunion, prounion, reunion. (additional references)

Words containing "Union": bunions, communions, disunionist, disunionists, disunions, grunions, intercommunions, interunions, misunions, nonunionized, nonunions, preunions, reunionist, reunionistic, reunionists, reunions. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Union" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ennion, funion, gunion, nion, nuin, runyon, Uginon, Uginox, uion, Unamo, unan, undon, uni, Unibond, unido, unie, unii, Unione, uniono, unixon, unown, Unton, unvon, unwon, unzin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Union"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Union" (pronounced yuw"nyun)
6y uw" n y u ncommunion, disunion, nonunion.
5-uw" n y u nreunion.
4-n y u nbanyan, Canyon, companion, dominion, grunion, minion, onion, opinion, pinion.
3-y u nbattalion, billion, bullion, civilian, jillion, medallion, million, multibillion, multimillion, octillion, pavilion, pillion, rebellion, scallion, scullion, stallion, trillion, vaudevillian, vermilion, Vermillion, zillion.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Union

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-n-n-o-u"

-1 letter: noun.

-2 letters: inn, ion, nun.

-3 letters: in, no, nu, on, un.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-n-o-u"
 

+1 letter: bunion, nuncio, unions, unison.

 

+2 letters: bunions, grunion, inbound, inconnu, inwound, linuron, munnion, nonsuit, nuncios, quinone, reunion, unction, undoing, unicorn, unisons, unjoint, unnoisy.

 

+3 letters: anginous, bouncing, bounding, buncoing, bunkoing, conquian, continua, continue, continuo, countian, counting, disunion, enginous, founding, fountain, function, grunions, gunpoint, hounding, inbounds, inconnus, infusion, innuendo, jouncing, junction, knouting, linurons, lounging, lunation, misunion, mounding, mountain, mounting, mourning, munition, munnions, neuronic, neutrino, nonfluid, nonguilt, nonissue, nonmusic, nonsuits, nonunion, nonusing, notturni, numinous, nutation, pouncing, pounding, preunion, prounion, punition, quinolin, quinones, quoining, reunions, rounding, snouting, sounding, swouning, tonguing, trunnion, unboxing, uncoffin, uncoined, unctions, undoings, unicorns, unionise, unionism, unionist, unionize, unironed, unisonal, unjoined, unjoints, unloving, unmoving, unrobing, unsonsie, unyoking, wounding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction 		13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency 		17. Names: Frequency
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Cities
20. Expressions 		21. Expressions: Internet
22. Translations: Modern
23. Translations: Ancient
24. Abbreviations 		25. Acronyms
26. Derivations
27. Rhymes
28. Anagrams 		29. Bibliography


  

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