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State of Yue
The State of Yue (越国) was an ancient Chinese state of the Spring and Autumn period, best known for King Goujian's revival and revenge against Wu.
State of Zeng
The State of Zeng (鄫国) was a small state of the Spring and Autumn period in present-day Lanling, Shandong, ruled by a Si-surname viscount and destroyed by Ju in 567 BC.
State of Zhu
The State of Zhu (邾国) was a small vassal state of the Zhou dynasty in southern Shandong, founded by tradition when King Wu enfeoffed Cao Xia.
State of Zou
The State of Zou (邹国), earlier known as Zhu, was a small Eastern Zhou vassal state in present-day Zoucheng, Shandong, destroyed by Chu after twenty-nine generations of rulers.
State Opening of Parliament
State Opening of Parliament: the UK ceremony opening a parliamentary session, where the monarch reads the King's Speech (written by the government) in the House of Lords, with Gunpowder Plot cellar searches and Black Rod's slammed door.
State park
State park: a natural, recreational, or historical protected area managed by a state-level government, chiefly in the United States. Over 5,000 units versus fewer than 500 national parks; movement organized at the 1921 Mather conference; earliest surviving example is New York's Niagara Falls (1885).
State parks of the Western United States
State parks of the Western United States are protected areas managed by individual western state governments, holding 65 percent of the nation's state park acreage with 18 percent of its population.
State pattern
The State pattern is a behavioral design pattern in which an object changes its behavior when its internal state changes, replacing bulky conditionals with one class per state.
State Peace and Development Council
The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) was Myanmar's military junta, renamed from SLORC on 15 November 1997, led by Senior General Than Shwe, ruling by decree with subordinate Peace and Development Councils until its dissolution on 30 March 2011.
State police
State police are government agencies enforcing laws throughout an entire state, distinct from city or county police; the first U.S. agency was formed in Massachusetts in 1865.
State police (United States)
State police (United States): statewide law enforcement agencies with general jurisdiction; first was the Pennsylvania State Police (1905), model for 49 states, distinct from highway patrols and sheriffs.
State Post Bureau
The State Post Bureau (国家邮政局) is China's postal regulatory authority, a sub-ministry-level bureau under the Ministry of Transport that supervises the postal market and express delivery.
State Power Investment
State Power Investment Corporation Limited (国家电力投资集团, SPIC) is one of China's five major power generation groups, formed in July 2015 by merging China Power Investment with SNPTC.
State practice (international law)
State practice is the conduct of a State, through its executive, legislative, judicial, or other organs, that serves as the objective element of a rule of customary international law.
State Preeminent Science and Technology Award
The State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (国家最高科学技术奖) is China's highest scientific honor, created in 2000 and conferred by the President on at most two citizens per award.
State President of South Africa
State President (Staatspresident) of South Africa: head of state 1961–1994, created when the republic replaced the Governor-General. Ceremonial until 1984, executive under P.W. Botha and F.W. de Klerk, replaced in 1994 by the President.
State Prize for Literature
The State Prize for Literature (Státní cena za literaturu) is the highest Czech state award for literature, granted annually on 28 October by the Ministry of Culture.
State Prize of the USSR
The State Prize of the USSR (Государственная премия СССР) was a Soviet award given annually from 1966 to 1991 for science, technology, literature, and art.
State Prize of Vietnam
The State Prize of Vietnam (Giải thưởng Nhà nước) is one of Vietnam's two highest state awards for outstanding scientific, technological, and literary or artistic works.
State public television networks in the United States
State public television networks are statewide noncommercial educational TV systems, such as Alabama Public Television (first, 1955), Maryland Public Television, and NJ PBS, where state agencies or commissions hold FCC licenses, receive state appropriations, and face restructuring after the 2025 CPB defunding.
State religion
A state religion, also called an established or official religion, is one a country's constitution or law explicitly names as official. In 2015, 43 countries had one, most commonly Islam.
State responsibility
State responsibility is the international law regime governing when states incur responsibility for internationally wrongful acts, codified in the ILC's 2001 ARSIWA (59 articles, non-binding but treated as customary), covering attribution, breach, reparation, and countermeasures.
State school
State school: a government-funded, tuition-free school, as defined by CESSDA ELSST and Cambridge Dictionary. Covers UK, US, Australian and New Zealand usage, funding splits, academies, grammar selection, and enrolment shares.
State Science and Technology Progress Award
The State Science and Technology Progress Award (国家科学技术进步奖) is one of China's five State Science and Technology Awards, honoring outstanding application and dissemination of research results, with First, Second, and Special Prizes.
State Secretariat of the West Ukrainian People's Republic
The State Secretariat of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, also called the Council of State Secretaries, was the government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic from 1918 to 1919.
State Security Department of Lithuania
The State Security Department of Lithuania (VSD) is the country's main counterintelligence institution and one of two national intelligence agencies, established in March 1990 after independence.
State Security Police
State security police, or secret police, are internal security agencies targeting political opponents through surveillance, arrest, and detention; examples include the Soviet Cheka/KGB, Nazi SiPo, Stasi, and South Africa's Security Branch.
State Security Service (Nigeria)
State Security Service (SSS), also Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria's domestic intelligence agency under the National Security Agencies Act 1986, created in 1986 from the NSO, handling internal security, classified matters, and VIP protection.
State socialism
State socialism: a socialist doctrine and historical system in which the state owns or administers the major means of production through central planning, as in the Soviet bloc and Maoist China; distinct from market socialism, social democracy, and state capitalism.
State Space Labs, Inc.
State Space Labs, Inc., doing business as Aimlabs, is a New York-based technology company founded by Wayne E. Mackey in 2017 that develops performance analytics and AI training tools for gamers and esports athletes.