Commons (disambiguation)
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People

  • John R. Commons
    John R. Commons
    John Rogers Commons was an American institutional economist and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Biography:Born in Hollansburg, Ohio, John R. Commons had a religious upbringing which led him to be an advocate for social justice early in life...

    , economist and labour historian.
  • Kris Commons
    Kris Commons
    Kris Commons is an English-born Scottish footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Scottish Premier League club Celtic and the Scotland national team...

    , Scottish footballer, currently playing for Celtic F.C.
    Celtic F.C.
    Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

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Places

  • Boston Common
    Boston Common
    Boston Common is a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as the "Boston Commons". Dating from 1634, it is the oldest city park in the United States. The Boston Common consists of of land bounded by Tremont Street, Park Street, Beacon Street,...

    , a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Algonquin Commons
    Algonquin Commons
    Algonquin Commons is an upper-tier outdoor shopping mall, or lifestyle center, located along Randall Road in Algonquin, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The mall is located in Kane County, Illinois, just south of the McHenry County line...

    , a large outdoor shopping center in Algonquin, Illinois, often referred to as "the Commons".
  • Ithaca Commons
    Ithaca Commons
    The Ithaca Commons is a two-block pedestrian mall in downtown Ithaca, New York, built in 1974. Its boundaries are Green Street to the south, Cayuga Street to the west, Seneca Street to the north, and Aurora Street to the east. It sits at the intersection of Tioga and State Streets...

    , a shopping street in Ithaca, New York.

Things

  • Common good
    Common good
    The common good is a term that can refer to several different concepts. In the popular meaning, the common good describes a specific "good" that is shared and beneficial for all members of a given community...

  • Common land
    Common land
    Common land is land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel...

    , shared area of land
  • The commons
    The commons
    The commons is terminology referring to resources that are owned in common or shared between or among communities populations. These resources are said to be "held in common" and can include everything from natural resources and common land to software. The commons contains public property and...

    , shared resources
  • Commons (road), place where multiple roadways share pavement
  • The House of Commons
    House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the name of the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of Ireland and North Carolina...

  • Wikimedia Commons
    Wikimedia Commons
    Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation....

    , a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files
  • Creative Commons
    Creative Commons
    Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...

    , licensing system for creative works
  • Digital Commons
    Digital commons
    Digital Commons is a hosted repository platform. This hosted service is licensed by the Berkeley Electronic Press. It is used by associations, consortia, universities and colleges to preserve and showcase their scholarly output.- History :...

    , public domain knowledge reproduced in digital formats
  • Apache Commons, repository of reusable Java programming language components
  • The Commonlands, area in EverQuest
    EverQuest
    EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...

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  • Asia Commons
    Asia Commons
    The Asia Commons is an attempt to see how ideas of the Commons are specifically applicable to Asian conditions, and may be distinctive from other forms.It is also the name of a conference, held in early June 2006 in Bangkok, the capital in Thailand...

    , specifically applicable to Asian conditions
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