The use of articles in the names of places, some buildings, public organizations

Names of places, buildings, etc. The definite article No article
Historical events the French Revolution  
Public / Political Organizations the Senate, the Houses of Parliament, the United Nations, theGovernment, the FBI, the BBC, the CNN NATO, Parliament, Congress
Public / Historical buildings, Churches, monuments the Bank of England, the Old Bailey, the Royal Exchange, the Winter Palace, theTower of London, the Bronze Horse Man, the Sphinx, the Taj Mahal, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eiffel Tower Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge
Documents, conferences, prizes, awards theConstitution, the Washington Summit, the Yalta Conference, the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Grammy Award  
Parties the Labour Party, the Tory  
Names of newspapers and periodicals the Times, the Washington Post (foreign) Pravda, Der Spiegel, USA Today, Variety, Newsweek, Time, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Vogue
Businesses and Chains of Shops   General Motors, Sony, Shell
Ships, Trains, Spacecraft theOrient Express, theTitanic Apollo, Challenger
Theatres, Cinemas the Globe, theBolshoy, the Odeon, the Arbat Her Majesty’s, Carnegie Hall, City Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Museums theBritish Museum, the hermitage, the Tate Gallery  
Parks The Botanical Gardens, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the London Gardens, the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Tivoli Gardens, the Snowdonia National Park Hyde Park, St. James’s Park,
Schools, colleges, Universities the University of London, the George Washington University, the John Hopkins University Carnegy College, London University, Manchester Grammar School
Restaurants the Cage Royal Leoni’s
Hotels theHilton Brown’s, Holiday Inn
Stations and Airports   Heathrow, Sheremetyevo
The names Counties, States, Streets, Squares, bridges, highways but the High street, theMall, theStrand, the Arbat, the Cathedral Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pan American Highway, the FDR Drive, names of streets in foreign countries: the Rue de Rivoli, the Via Manzoni Yorkshire, Texas, Oxford Street , Fifth Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London Bridge
Holidays The Fourth of July, the Cherry Festival, the Jazz festival Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Mardi Grass

Special difficulties in the use of articles

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