In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).

* Association of Drainage Authorities, membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom

Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

* Animal ( clothing ), a sportswear retailer and brand based in the United Kingdom

Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field ( agriculture ) | fields like this one in Dorset, England, United Kingdom

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

* United Kingdom comparative: about one third larger ( 30 %) than Wales

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.

* Human experimentation in the United States

Under current United States law, bio-agents which have been declared by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U. S. Department of Agriculture to have the " potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety " are officially defined as " select agents ".

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

It is currently a member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

As a sport, cycling is governed internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland, USA Cycling ( merged with the United States Cycling Federation in 1995 ) in the United States, ( for upright bicycles ) and by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association ( for other HPVs, or human-powered vehicles ).

As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per capita income, Human Development Index ( 0. 962 ), and median household income in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta., Georgia, as seen from Emory University

* 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He is also accredited to: Tanzania, the Comoros, United Nations Environment Programme, and United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

The European Court of Human Rights did not rule upon the right to life until 1995, when in McCann v. United Kingdom it ruled that the exception contained in the second paragraph do not constitute situations when it is permitted to kill, but situations where it is permitted to use force which might result in the deprivation of life.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

While the bodies that proposed, argued, agreed upon and ultimately adopted existing international agreements vary according to each agreement, certain conferences, including 1972's United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1983's World Commission on Environment and Development, 1992's United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and 2002's World Summit on Sustainable Development have been particularly important.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA or USFDA ) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.

There is no one organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, although there are two organizations that are inclusive of many of the LGBT community issues: InterPride by coordinating and networking gay pride events worldwide, and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ), which addresses human rights violations against LGBT and HIV-positive people and works with the United Nations.

Many of the basic ideas that animated the movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust, culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

United Network for Organ Sharing, the organization that coordinates available organs with recipients, does not factor a patient ’ s prison status when determining suitability for a transplant.

The Center for Ethical Solutions, an American bioethics think tank, is currently working on a project called " Solving the Organ Shortage ," in which it is studying the Iranian kidney procurement system in order to better inform the debate over solving the organ shortfall in the United States.

The United Network for Organ Sharing and the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network ( OPTN ) regulate Organ Procurement Organizations ( OPO ) with regard to procurement and distribution ethics and standards.

The History of the Organ in the United States.

* National Pipe Organ Register, featuring history and specifications of 28, 000 pipe organs in the United Kingdom

The overwhelming majority of deceased-donor organs in the United States are allocated by federal contract to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN ), held since it was created by the Organ Transplant Act of 1984 by the United Network for Organ Sharing or UNOS.

In the United States, The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 made organ sales illegal.

It was introduced to the United States In April 1982 on the Nationwide Television Show " P M Magazine " produced by " Group W Productions " of San Francisco as " The Chicken Dance " and featured Wisconsin Orchestra Leader Norm Edlebeck playing it on a $ 25K Electronic Organ and presented in a " Blue Grass " rendition.

* UNOS: United Network of Organ Sharing, U. S.

In his first speech, Organ condemned the Iraq War as unjust, in breach of United Nations resolutions, and likely to lead to higher risks of terrorism.

The Wicks Organ Company is an organ manufacturer in Highland, Illinois in the United States ; where they build, repair, and restore organs.

The History of the Organ in the United States.

The organ was originally built by Hill, Norman & Beard ( of England ) in 1929 and was recently rebuilt and enlarged by Schantz Organ Company of the United States of America.

At any one time, there are about 250 people registered for heart – lung transplantation at the United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS ) in the USA, of which around forty will die before a suitable donor is found.

The park is the only place in the United States where the Organ Pipe Cactus grows wild.

Reginald Green wrote two books: the first called " The Nicholas Effect " ( Il Dono di Nicholas, in Italiano ) and the second called " The Gift that Heals " ( Il Dono che Guarisce, in Italian ), published jointly with UNOS ( United Network for Organ Sharing )-the non-profit organization that manages the United States's organ transplant system under contract with the federal government.