A commissary is a government official charged with oversight or an ecclesiastical official who exercises in special circumstances the jurisdiction of a...
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A prison commissary or canteen is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing...
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A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization...
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A war commissary or armed forces commissary (German: Kriegskommissar, French:commissaire des armées) is a military official responsible for supplying...
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The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), headquartered at Fort Lee, Virginia, is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that operates...
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The term Commissary Court is in use in Scots law and in the Church of England. At the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the system of consistorial courts where...
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Commissary notes were financial certificates issued by the departments of the quartermaster and commissary-general on behalf of the Continental Army during...
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Suffragan bishop (redirect from Episcopal commissary)
the full-time bishop senior by consecration) who becomes the episcopal commissary, but may be referred to by any number of phrases (since the commission...
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MOI Kompong Dewa FA (redirect from National Police Commissary F.C.)
MOI Kompong Dewa FC (Khmer: អឹម អូ អាយ កំពង់ដេវ៉ា អេហ្វស៊ី), is an association football club based in Sihanoukville, Preah Sihanouk province. Historically...
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department or organization commanded by a commissary or by a corps of commissaries. In many countries, commissary is a police rank. In those countries, a...
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Salt River Range (redirect from Commissary Ridge)
42°46′N 110°51′W / 42.767°N 110.850°W / 42.767; -110.850 The Salt River Range is a mountain range in western Wyoming. The 56-mile-long (90 km) range...
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The ABC Commissary is a restaurant on Commissary Lane at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World. The restaurant...
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1778), son of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, was the first commissary general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...
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Cheka (redirect from All-Russian Extraordinary Commissary against the Counterrevolution and Sabotage)
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Russian: Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, romanized: Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, IPA: [fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə...
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Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission (redirect from Commissary Provisional Government of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
The Provisional Government Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; also, the Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission (Lithuanian: Lietuvos laikinosios...
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English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically...
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Commissaire de police (redirect from Police Commissary)
It should not be confused with the French appointment of "armed forces commissary" (commissaire des armées) which is an administrative military position...
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A Commissary Apostolic (Latin: Commissarius Apostolicus) is an office in the Catholic church. The Pope appoints commissaries as delegates for judicial...
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San Antonio Zoo (redirect from Monkey House/Commissary (San Antonio Zoo))
and the Zoological Association of America (ZAA). The Monkey House and Commissary at the San Antonio Zoo was built between 1935 and 1937. It was designed...
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The Skyline Commissary (also known as the Rock Store) is a historic building in Skyline, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1935 as part of Skyline...
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major reorganisation of army supply and transport capabilities: the commissaries of the Commissariat and the officers of the Military Train were amalgamated...
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prerogatives of their respective consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries". August 13 – Parliament of Great Britain passes Pitt's India Act (An...
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found in states with predominantly capitalist or mixed-market economies. Commissaries are grocery stores run by militaries or prisons to provide goods to enlistees...
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Sir George Maclean KCB (1795-1861) was a Commissary General in the British Army. Born in Dysart, Fife, in 1795, George Maclean was the son of William Maclean...
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Joseph Pannell Taylor (category Commissary General of Subsistence (United States Army))
Commissary General of Subsistence with the rank of captain on March 10, 1829, and promoted to major with essentially the same assignment (commissary,...
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department stores run by militaries to provide goods to enlistees. Prison commissaries are small-scale markets that provide retail goods to prisoners. For decades...
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Tioga Commissary is located in Tioga, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1986. Located north of Alexandria...
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Vienna International Centre (section Commissary)
work at the VIC, which also offers catering and shopping facilities (see Commissary below) and a post office (postal code 1400 Wien). Two banks (Bank Austria...
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Commissary-general Sir Edward Pine Coffin (1784 – 1862) was an English commissary officer. Edward Pine Coffin, youngest son of the Rev. John Pine, was...
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Commissary Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces (Swedish: Försvarets intendentkår, Intk) was a joint administrative corps for ordnance officers of the Swedish...
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