| List of largest companies in the United States by revenue |
This list comprises the largest companies in the United States by revenue as of 2022, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies. Retail corporation Walmart has been the largest company in the US by revenue since 2014. |
| Pacific Ocean Areas |
Pacific Ocean Areas was a major Allied military command in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. It was one of four major Allied commands during the Pacific War, and one of three United States commands in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz of the U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, headed the command throughout its existence. |
| Timeline of Apple Inc. products |
This timeline of Apple Inc. products is a list of all stand-alone Apple II, Macintosh, and other computers, as well as computer peripherals, expansion cards, ancillary products, and consumer electronics sold by Apple Inc. |
| The Walt Disney Company |
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.\nDisney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. |
| Diversification rates |
Diversification rates are the rates at which new species form (the Speciation rate, λ) and living species go extinct (the extinction rate, μ). Diversification rates can be estimated from fossils, data on the species diversity of clades and their ages, or phylogenetic trees. |
| Successful (song) |
"Successful" is a song by Canadian rapper Drake and R&B singer Trey Songz . The song features guest appearances from Drake's mentor and labelmate Lil Wayne. |
| Conspicuous consumption |
In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical. The sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury commodities (goods and services) specifically as a public display of economic power — the income and the accumulated wealth of the buyer. |
| Resource consumption |
Resource consumption is about the consumption of non-renewable, or less often, renewable resources. Specifically, it may refer to:\n\nwater consumption\nenergy consumption\nelectric energy consumption\nworld energy consumption\nnatural gas consumption/gas depletion\noil consumption/oil depletion\nlogging/deforestation\nfishing/overfishing\nland use/land loss or\nresource depletion and\ngeneral exploitation and associated environmental degradationMeasures of resource consumption are resource intensity and resource efficiency. |
| Comparison of music streaming services |
The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services. These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, without the listener necessarily having to purchase a file for download. |
| Global Trade Item Number |
The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is an identifier for trade items, developed by the international organization GS1. Such identifiers are used to look up product information in a database (often by entering the number through a barcode scanner pointed at an actual product) which may belong to a retailer, manufacturer, collector, researcher, or other entity. |
| Revenue recognition |
The revenue recognition principle is a cornerstone of accrual accounting together with the matching principle. They both determine the accounting period in which revenues and expenses are recognized. |
| Additional Mathematics |
Additional Mathematics is a qualification in mathematics, commonly taken by students in high-school (or GCSE exam takers in the United Kingdom). It is applied to a range of problems set out in a different format and wider content to the standard Mathematics at the same level. |
| Sport management |
Sport management is the field of business dealing with sports and recreation. Sports management involves any combination of skills that correspond with planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading, or evaluating of any organization or business within the sports field. |
| Supermarket |
A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earlier grocery stores, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market. |
| Communes of France |
The commune (French pronunciation: [kɔmyn]) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy or municipios in Spain. |
| Service of process |
Service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to force that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body, or other tribunal.\nNotice is furnished by delivering a set of court documents (called "process") to the person to be served. |
| CoDel |
CoDel (Controlled Delay; pronounced "coddle") is an active queue management (AQM) algorithm in network routing, developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols and published as RFC8289. It is designed to overcome bufferbloat in networking hardware, such as routers, by setting limits on the delay network packets experience as they pass through buffers in this equipment. |
| Finance |
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related with, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services. |
| Bible |
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology—a compilation of texts of a variety of forms—originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. |
| Social media |
Social media are interactive digital channels that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of social media arise due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features:\nSocial media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. |
| Pierre Poilievre |
Pierre Marcel Poilievre ( pawl-ee-EV; born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of Parliament (MP) since 2004. A member of the Conservative Party, Poilievre previously served as minister for democratic reform from 2013 to 2015 and minister of employment and social development in 2015. |
| Suicide watch |
Suicide watch (sometimes shortened to SW) is an intensive monitoring process used to ensure that any person cannot attempt suicide. Usually the term is used in reference to inmates or patients in a prison, hospital, psychiatric hospital or military base. |
| The Interrupters |
The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chicago drew national headlines for violence and murder that plagued the city. |
| Atomic Weapons Establishment |
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at Burghfield, Blacknest and RNAD Coulport. |
| Nevertheless, she persisted |
"Nevertheless, she persisted" is an expression adopted by the feminist movement, especially in the United States. It became popular in 2017 after the United States Senate voted to require Senator Elizabeth Warren to stop speaking during the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. |
| Million Dollar Baby |
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. |
| Consolidated Film Industries |
Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades. CFI processed negatives and made prints for motion pictures and television. |
| Travel agency |
A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destination. Travel agencies can provide outdoor recreation activities, airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, travel insurance, package tours, insurance, guide books, VIP airport lounge access, arranging logistics for luggage and medical items delivery for travellers upon request, public transport timetables, car rentals, and bureau de change services. |
| Différance |
Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida. It is a central concept in Derrida's deconstruction, a critical outlook concerned with the relationship between text and meaning. |
| New York City Fire Department |
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is an American department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection, technical rescue services, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services responses to the five boroughs of New York City.\nThe New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. |
| Book rental service |
Libraries have been lending books to the public for thousands of years. First libraries date back to 2600 BC during Sumerian civilization. |
| C4 model |
C4 model is a lean graphical notation technique for modelling the architecture of software systems. It is based on a structural decomposition of a system into containers and components and relies on existing modelling techniques such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML) or Entity Relation Diagrams (ERD) for the more detailed decomposition of the architectural building blocks. |
| Continuous integration |
In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. Grady Booch first proposed the term CI in his 1991 method, although he did not advocate integrating several times a day. |
| List of people from Calgary |
This is a list of notable people who were born, or lived for a significant period of time, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ordered by last name:\n\n\n== A ==\nWilliam Aberhart (1878–1943), former Premier of Alberta\nTesho Akindele (born 1992), soccer player\nDavid Albahari (born 1948), Serbian-born author\nJocelyn Alice, vocalist for the soul pop duo Jocelyn & Lisa\nCody Almond (born 1989), Canadian-born Swiss professional ice hockey centre\nBrooke Apshkrum (born 1999), luger\nJann Arden (born 1962), singer\nMark Astley (born 1969), former NHL player\n\n\n== B ==\nScott Bailey (born 1972), ice hockey goaltender\nCori Bartel (born 1971), curler\nDaniel Bartholomew-Poyser, orchestral conductor\nBob Bassen (born 1965), NHL forward\nHank Bassen (1932–2009), former NHL goalie\nNolan Baumgartner (born 1976), professional ice hockey player\nIan Willoughby Bazalgette (1918–1944), Calgary-born recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions in the skies above France in the Second World War\nJay Beagle (born 1985), NHL player (Arizona Coyotes)\nChelsey Bell (born 1982), curler\nJill Belland, television host and producer\nRichard Bennett (1870–1947), former prime minister of Canada\nCheryl Bernard (born 1966), curler\nManmeet Bhullar (1980–2015), Progressive Conservative politician\nEarle Birney (1904–1995), poet\nJason Block (born 1989), swimmer\nHeather Blush, singer\nBruce Boa (1930–2004), actor\nBill Borger (born 1974), first Canadian to both swim the English Channel and climb Mount Everest\nNoah Bowman (born 1992), freestyle skiing\nTrevor Boys (born 1957), NASCAR driver\nPaul Brandt (born 1972), Country Music Singer\nAnnie Glen Broder (1857–1937), musician, writer and lecturer\nDave Bronconnier (born 1962), politician\nAanders Brorson (born 1988), American curler\nAnastasia Bucsis (born 1989), speed skater\nNate Burleson (born 1981), professional American football player, Detroit Lions\nPat Burns (1856–1937), rancher, businessman, and Canadian Senator\nRon Butlin (1925–2014), ice hockey executive\n\n\n== C ==\nDon Cairns (born 1955), professional ice hockey player\nEric Cameron (born 1935), visual artist\nTommy Campbell (born 1978), actor and stand-up comedian\nCartel Madras, hip-hop duo\nSean Cheesman, dancer and choreographer\nDavid Chernushenko (born 1963), politician\nDean Chynoweth (born 1968), ice hockey defenceman\nAleisha Cline (born 1970), cross skier\nAllen Coage (1943–2007), professional wrestler known as "Bad News Allen"\nBraydon Coburn (born 1985), ice hockey defenceman\nJoe Colborne (born 1990), ice hockey forward\nJordan Connor (born 1991), actor, most well known for his role as Sweet Pea from the hit CW series "Riverdale".\nPaul Cranmer (born 1969), former CFL player\nTed Cruz (born 1970), U.S. Senator from Texas since 2013 and ex-Republican Presidential nomination candidate during 2016 election. |
| LeEco |
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular, segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract. |
| The Good Guys (Australian company) |
The Good Guys is a chain of consumer electronics retail stores in Australia and formerly New Zealand. Its national headquarters is in the Melbourne suburb of Southbank, Victoria. |