• list of notable persons who have served as volunteers in the United States Peace Corps, along with their terms of service. Each volunteer is listed only...
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    The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development...
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    The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC; Russian: Русский добровольческий корпус, РДК, romanized: Russkiy dobrovolcheskiy korpus, RDK) is a far-right paramilitary...
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  • expressed in Peace Corps service. The Peace Corps is a volunteer-sending program run by the United States government. Congress authorized the Peace Corps Commemorative...
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    National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) maintains a database comprising around 150,000 records of volunteers, including figures such as the Peace Corps' founder...
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  • creditors by trading places with his college roommate Kent, jumping on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand. On the plane, he meets Washington State graduate...
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    Sam Brown (activist) (category University of Redlands alumni)
    Brown a barrage of over 100 questions including why Brown had dropped a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism and...
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  • The International Secretariat for Volunteer Service (ISVS; formerly the International Peace Corps Secretariat), was created by the United States to encourage...
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    as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA is an acronym for Volunteers in Service...
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    served in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a multinational volunteer force of the Shanghai International Settlement. Volunteers from both Serbia and the...
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    Loret Miller Ruppe (category Peace Corps directors)
    7, 1996) was a Director of the Peace Corps and US Ambassador to Norway. She was the wife of U. S. Congressman Philip Ruppe of Michigan. Loret Miller was...
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    Lillian Gordy Carter (category Mothers of presidents of the United States)
    as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She was also known for her contributions as a Peace Corps volunteer in India and for writing...
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    Devon Volunteers, formed in 1852, who became the 1st Devonshire Rifle Volunteers (and were often referred to as the 1st Rifle Volunteer Corps), and the...
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    opposed to volunteers and reached a peak strength of 9,886 men. After the Red Army entered Serbia and Belgrade was liberated in October 1944, the corps retreated...
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  • Inns of Court Volunteers' was one of the Volunteer Corps raised in June 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was formed by the residents of the...
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  • structure. The Peace Corps was organized by the United States as an "army" of volunteers. Some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are known as corps. Examples...
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  • Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is...
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    broke down in 1803. The Bridlington Volunteer Artillery disbanded in 1814. A number of new Artillery Volunteer Corps (AVCs) were formed in the East Riding...
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    Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, the Orkney RGA...
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    Taylor Hackford (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, where he started using Super 8 film in his spare time. The camera was purchased for him by fellow Peace Corps volunteer...
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  • creation of Volunteer Corps. This move addressed the disbanding of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment in 1874. The Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers was originally...
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    Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor, often for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained...
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  • would train citizens for service, a Peace by Investment Corporation, and the transfer of agencies such as the Peace Corps, Agency for International Development...
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  • is a list of films featuring the United States Marine Corps. Beginning with The Star Spangled Banner (1918), the Marines discovered the use of motion...
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    Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
    appointed major general of volunteers and commanded the II Corps in the Army of the Ohio during the Perryville Campaign although his corps was only lightly engaged...
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  • The Leeds Volunteer Corps (1794–1802, 1803–1808) was line infantry regiment of volunteers in the West Riding of Yorkshire. They were active during the...
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  • episodes, a Canadian animated television series created by Asaph Fipke. The series is produced by the Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment....
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  • ISBN 1-872424-57-0. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham:...
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  • известный германский мистик-антисемит" ["Slavic Corps" returns to Syria: The recruitment of volunteers willing to risk their lives for Bashar al-Assad...
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    Paul Coverdell (category Peace Corps directors)
    with Peace Corps volunteers serving around the world. During the time Coverdell was in office, the World Wise Schools program connected volunteers with...
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