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Pac
Pac or PAC may refer to: Aviation * IATA code PAC Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport in Panama City, Panama * Pacific Aerospace Corporation, New Zealand, manufacturer of aircraft: ** PAC 750XL ** PAC Cresco ** PAC CT/4 ** PAC Fletcher * Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, aerospace manufacturer * Polar Air Cargo airline, Purchase, New York, US Commerce * Panasonic Avionics Corporation, produces equipment and services for in-flight entertainment, etc. * Peruvian Amazon Company, a former rubber company * Planned Amortization Class, a type of Collateralized mortgage obligation#Schedule bonds (also called PAC or TAC bonds), collateralized mortgage obligation * Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, an investment plan in Brazil Education * Panasonic Academic Challenge, a US national competition * Postgraduate Applications Centre, Ireland * Prince Alfred College, Australia * Peres Academic Center, a private college in Israel Military * Civil Defense Patrols (''Patrulla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (; born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor, regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time. Academics regard him as one of the most influential music artists of the 20th century and a prominent political activist for Black America. In addition to his music career, Shakur also wrote poetry and starred in films. He is among the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. His lyrical content has been noted for addressing social injustice, political issues, and the marginalization of other African-Americans, but he was also synonymous with gangsta rap and violent lyrics. Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were both political activists and Black Panther Party members. Raised by his mother, Afeni Shakur, he relocated to Baltimore in 1984 and to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrook "Marcos A
Albrook may refer to the following entities in Panama: *Albrook (Panama Metro), a Panama City Metro station * Albrook Air Force Station, a former U.S. Air Force base near Panama Canal ** Albrook (area), a complex of buildings formerly part of the airbase; see International Maritime University of Panama *Albrook Mall Albrook Mall is a large shopping mall and leisure complex located in Panama City, Panama. As of July 2022 it was the 25th largest mall in the world and second largest in the Americas. History The mall was opened in 2002 on the site of Albrook ..., Panama City * Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport, west of Panama City *Albrook Massacre, the execution of military officers following a failed coup {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MIM-104 Patriot
The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system. The AN/MPQ-53 at the heart of the system is known as the "Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target", which is a backronym for "Patriot". In 1984, the Patriot system began to replace the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. Army's primary high to medium air defense (HIMAD) system and the MIM-23 Hawk system as the U.S. Army's medium tactical air defense system. In addition to these roles, Patriot has been given a function in the U.S. Army's anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system. , the system is expected to stay fielded until at least 2040. Patriot uses an advanced aerial interceptor missile and high-performance radar systems. Patriot was developed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Accounts Committee (India)
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected Member of parliament (India), members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of auditing the revenue and the expenditure of the Government of India. They check that parliament exercises over the executive stems from the basic principle that parliament embodies the will of the people. This committee along with the Estimates Committee (India), Estimates committee (EC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (India), Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) are the three Parliamentary Committees of India, financial standing committees of the Parliament of India. It serves as a check on the government especially with respect to its expenditure bill and its primary function is to examine the audit report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) after it is laid in the Parliament. C&AG assists the committee during the course of investigation. None of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish American Congress
The Polish American Congress (PAC) is an American umbrella organization of Polish-Americans and Polish-American organizations. Its members include individuals as well as fraternal, educational, veterans, religious, cultural, social, business, and political organizations. As of January 2009, it lists 20 national organizations as members. It is subdivided into 41 divisions and chapters. Traditionally, the PAC National President has also been the president of the largest Polish-American fraternal organization, the Polish National Alliance (PNA). History In response to the threat to Poland's freedom caused by Soviet and German aggression, a large Congress of Polonia met in Buffalo, New York, from May 28 to June 1, 1944. Composed of roughly 2,600 delegates representing Polish and Polish-American organizations, the Congress created the PAC, defining its goal of a free Poland and underscoring its support for the US war effort against the Axis powers. The PAC incorporatedBukowczyk, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Affairs Committee (British Guiana)
The Political Affairs Committee (PAC) was a political party in British Guiana. History The PAC was formed on 6 November 1946 by Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Ashton Chase and Jocelyn Hubbard.The Political Affairs Committee Guyana.org On the same day it started producing the ''PAC Bulletin'', printing 60 copies. The bulletin was usually published once or twice a month. Guyana.org The party called for the introduction of universal suffrage
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Political Action Committee
In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation. The legal term PAC was created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States. Democracies of other countries use different terms for the units of campaign spending or spending on political competition (see political finance). At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Act). At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state's election laws. Contributions to PACs from corporate or labor union treasuries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoples' Aman Committee
The Peoples' Aman Committee () was an alleged militant group tied to the Pakistan Peoples Party and based in Karachi, Pakistan. The PAC was founded by the infamous Karachi gangster Rehman Dakait in 2008 and is accused of being involved in organized crime and gang wars. After Rehman's death in 2009, leadership of the group was taken over by Uzair Baloch. The PAC is avowedly a support group for the Pakistan Peoples Party, the ruling party in Pakistan from 2008 until the 2013 elections. The organization initially only served Lyari, but soon offices were set up in other Baloch people, Baloch populated neighbourhoods of Karachi, such as Dalmiya (Shantinagar), Malir, Gadap, Old Golimar, Mawach Goth, and even in some nearby town and villages in Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan. The PAC has a bitter rivalry with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the city of Karachi. In March 2011, the PAC agreed to disband after its parent organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Africanist Congress
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, often shortened to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a South African pan-Africanist national liberation movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert Sobukwe, that broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959, as the PAC objected to the ANC's theory that "the land belongs to all who live in it both white and black" and also rejected a multiracialist worldview, instead advocating a South Africa based on African nationalism. History The PAC was formally launched on 6 April 1959 at Orlando Communal Hall in Soweto. A number of African National Congress (ANC) members broke away because they objected to the substitution of the 1949 ''Programme of Action'' with the Freedom Charter adopted in 1955, which used multiracialist language as opposed to Africanist affirmations. The PAC at the time considered South Africa to be an African state by an "inalienable right of the indigenou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Proletarians For Communism
Armed Proletarians for Communism (Italian ''Proletari Armati per il Comunismo'' or PAC) was an Italian far-left terrorist group founded in 1976 and disbanded three years later, during the " Years of Lead". History Armed Proletarians for Communism was founded in 1976, as one of the numerous armed groups spun out of Italian Autonomism (''Autonomia Operaia''). As opposed to the Red Brigades, the PAC was structured "horizontally", with independently constituted cells with their own actions. Most of the early members were young workers, unemployed people and teachers. An estimate 60 people were involved in the groupValerio Evangelisti, ''Valerio Evangelisti Répond À 50 Questions''/ref> in Lombardy and Veneto. The leaders of the PAC were Sebastiano Masala and Arrigo Cavallina who was considered to be the ideologue of the group. The group was dissolved in 1979. Fred Vargas« Cesare Battisti : À la recherche de la justice perdue » ''in'' ''La Règle du Jeu'', n°30 (01/2006) Doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Corruption Party
The Anti-Corruption Party (, PAC) is a political party in Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, .... It was founded by sports journalist/television presenter Salvador Nasralla, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2013 Honduran presidential election. As of 2022, the party holds one seat in the national legislature and is currently led by Marlene Alvarenga. References Political parties in Honduras Political parties established in 2012 2012 establishments in Honduras Anti-corruption parties {{Honduras-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
