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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
A BBB-accredited company agrees to abide by a set of accreditation standards BBB says are "attributes of a better business." These include honesty in advertising, transparency, and responsiveness ...
The Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching ( ARLT) was founded in the United Kingdom in 1913 by the distinguished Classical scholar W. H. D. Rouse. It is now known as the Association for Latin Teaching . It arose from Summer Schools which Rouse organised in order to train Latin teachers in the Direct Method of language teaching, which ...
The credit rating is a financial indicator to potential investors of debt securities such as bonds. These are assigned by credit rating agencies such as Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch, which publish code designations (such as AAA, B, CC) to express their assessment of the risk quality of a bond. Moody's assigns bond credit ratings of Aaa ...
Crocus (mythology) Kingdom of Flora by Nicolas Poussin. Canvas painting, 1631, 181×131 cm. In Classical mythology, Crocus ( Ancient Greek: Κρόκος, Krókos) was a mortal youth who was changed by the gods into a saffron flower. [ 1]
Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall. The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally The Pumpkinification of ( the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called ...
Oestrus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Oestrus or Oistros ( Ancient Greek: Οἴστρῳ, meaning 'gadfly' or 'sting') was one of the leaders of the satyrs [1] who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India. [2]
In Greek mythology, Thelxinoë / θɛlkˈsɪnoʊ.iː / [ 1] ( Greek: Θελξινόη, translit. Thelxinóē; English translation: "mind charming") was a name attributed to four individuals. Thelxinoë, one of the sirens. Also known as Thelxiope or Thelxiepia. [ 2] Thelxinoë, one of the four later recognized muses in Greek tradition.