In a few countries such as Jordan and Singapore ( see Singapore Civil Defence Force ), civil defense is essentially the same organisation as the fire brigade.

In the United Kingdom the roles carried out by Civil Defence fall to voluntary groups such as RAYNET, Search and Rescue Teams and 4x4 Response.

In Ireland, the Civil Defence is still very much an active organisation and is occasionally called upon for its Auxiliary Fire Service and ambulance / rescue services when emergencies such as flash flooding occur and require additional manpower.

* Civil Defence Ireland

* Civil Defence New Zealand

* Cyprus Civil Defence

* Norwegian Civil Defence

* Civil Defence Harir in Kurdistan-Iraq

* Singapore Civil Defence Force

* Civil Defence Corps

* The UK Civil Defence Project-History & Photos

* National Civil Defence College, Nagpur INDIA link by Ajoy VU2JHM

* Dublin Civil Defence Ireland

* SEBEV Search and Rescue ( originally a Civil Defence team in the UK

* " Civil Defence " – A site with details of the UK's Civil Defence preparations, including those implemented during the Cold War such as the Burlington Central Government War HQ., at Corsham, Wiltshire.

* The official Civil Defence site for the Republic of Ireland

* The Norwegian Civil Defence

*** Heads of the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, see Military of Switzerland

Beyond fire-fighting duties, the Corps has an extensive Civil Defence brief.

The Armed Forces for the Defence of Mozambique ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique ) or FADM were formed in mid August 1994 from the previous warring factions of the Mozambique Civil War, which ended in 1992.

In peacetime, the armed forces are led by the Chief of the Armed Forces ( Chef der Armee ), who reports to the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports and to the Swiss Federal Council as a whole.

Category: Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

During the Civil War the commander cadres were trained at the Nicholas General Staff Academy of the Russian Empire, which became the Frunze Military Academy in the 1920s.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

The National Academy did not solve the problems facing a nation in Civil War as the Lazzaroni had hoped, nor did it centralize American scientific efforts.

Senator Ewing secured an appointment for the 16-year-old Sherman as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he roomed and became good friends with another important future Civil War General, George H. Thomas.

* Volgo-Vyatsky Region Civil Service Academy

It held the campus of the U. S. Naval Academy during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), when the undergraduate officer training school was temporarily moved north from Annapolis, Maryland.

Born was deposed on 9 December 2011, as a respondent in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case of alleged disability discrimination filed by former United States Air Force Academy economics professor David Mullin, who was also a client of the U. S. Civil Rights organization, Military Religious Freedom Foundation ( MRFF ).

He was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and he served in the U. S. Army for 20 years before the American Civil War broke out in 1861.

Custer graduated as the last of 34 cadets in the Class of June 1861 from the United States Military Academy, just after the start of the Civil War.

The school opened in 1859 as the Bunker Hill Academy, but closed during the American Civil War.

* Thomas Gamble Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.

* Thomas G. Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.

Although thousands of Union troops were encamped in the fields surrounding the Academy during the Civil War, the school was not touched.

After the American Civil War, Bridgeton's industrial prowess and commercial centrality in this area of high agricultural production, along with its high profile as an educational center ( it was home to the South Jersey Institute, the West Jersey Academy, and two notable academies for women ), made it the most prosperous town in the state.

Stewart, 1821 – 1908, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and served throughout the American Civil War as a commanding officer in the Confederate States ' Army of Tennessee.

The boy ’ s school closed in 1861 during the Civil War but boys were eventually admitted to the seminary and it came to be called Parsons Seminary and eventually Parsons Academy.

* Civil Services Academy Lahore

His brother, John G. Barnard was a career engineering officer in the U. S. Army, serving as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and then as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

* Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

By the time Canon Carver retired from the position of Master in 1882, Dulwich College was said to have expanded more rapidly in the previous 25 years than any other establishment and to be holding its own at universities, to have won a large number of places of honour in the Indian and Home Civil Service and at the Royal Military College of Woolwich and to be well represented among the public schools medals of the Royal Geographic Society and the prizes of the Art Schools of the Royal Academy.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

The Naked Civil Servant won a British Academy Television Award ( BAFTA ) for its star John Hurt as well as a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and a prize at the Prix Italia ; Rock Follies won a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award, while Widows also gained BAFTA nominations and ratings of over 12 million — unusually for a drama serial, it picked up viewers over the course of its six-week run.