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Fraternal

Fraternal correction, the admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming or, if possible, preventing the neighbor's sinful indulgence

Fraternal Day, a legal holiday in the state of Alabama in the United States

Fraternal party, a political party officially affiliated with another, often larger and/or international, political party or governmental party


1933 Pulitzer Prize

New York World-Telegram for its series of articles on veterans relief, on the real estate bond evil, the campaign urging voters in the late New York City municipal election to "write in" the name of Joseph V. McKee, and also the articles exposing the lottery schemes of several fraternal organizations.

Albert Maier

At the same time Ludwig von Gerdtell, who had made direct contact with Professor Thomas Turner of the English Fraternal Visitor magazine, was leading a Gemeinde in Berlin with the Christadelphian Ludwig Knupfer.

Bolesław Gebert

In 1936 he went to work for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in charge of efforts to organize fraternal organizations of foreign-born Americans.

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

Catholic Order of Foresters

On 30 July 1879, some members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Boston, Massachusetts, most of them Irish immigrants, desiring to have a Catholic fraternal insurance society, organized one on the plan of the "courts" of the Independent Order of Foresters and called it the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters.

Chief of police

The fraternal organization International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is an organization often associated with many Chiefs of Police.

Circle City, Arizona

The development was built in the late 1950s by the The Workmen's Circle, a Jewish fraternal and mutual aid society with roots in the Socialist movement of the early 20th century, as a retirement community for its aging members.

Clinton and Russell

At Columbia, Russell had been a member of St. Anthony Hall, the secret fraternal college society, and within a year of his joining his great uncle's firm, in 1879, Renwick completed the first St. A's Chapter House, at 25 East 28th Street, likely with Russell involved in the design work.

Committee for a Revolutionary Socialist Party

A First National Conference attended by 100 members and fraternal representatives of these groups met in Union, Washington Oct. 6-9, 1978.

Cristóbal, Colón

In 1907 the Cristóbal Women's Club was founded and fraternal orders for men, including Masonic and Elks lodges were active.

Cristobalites eventually had their own commissary, post office, police, fire and railroad stations, churches, yacht club, YMCA, VFW, American Legion, several fraternal lodges and a masonic temple.

Deer Park Farm

In 1909, the property was sold to the Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal organization, who used it to provide a home for retired Red Men and their wives.

Foreign relations of Burma

However, during the late 1970s the relationship with Pyongyang became slightly stronger than that with Seoul, as Ne Win and the Burma Socialist Programme Party forged fraternal ties with Kim Il-sung and the Workers' Party of Korea.

Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation

Bearman and Brückner (2008) argue that studies showing a fraternal birth order effect have used nonrepresentative samples and/or indirect reports on siblings’ sexual orientation.

George R. Bagley

A Republican in politics, he was also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World fraternal organizations.

Hannah Kersey

Hannah Kersey (born 1983) is a British woman who was born with two wombs (uterus didelphys) and gave birth to triplets, identical twin girls in one womb and another fraternal sibling in the other at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England in late December 2006.

History of the Irish in Saint Paul

A number of strong fraternal organizations had chapters in Saint Paul including the Benevolent Society of Erin and Shields Guards, a militia named for James Shields.

Iwo

International Workers Order was the acronym of the International Workers Order, a pro-Communist fraternal organization and insurance company.

Job's Daughters International

They usually meet at a Masonic Lodge building but may meet at a church hall, or other fraternal hall.

KOTM

Knights of the Maccabees, a historic fraternal association in Canada and the United States

Lotte Herrlich

Alessandro Bertolotti wrote: "The cover of the second volumes shows a boy and two girls, hand in hand and dancing a joyful farandole, suggesting - by fluid, undulating outlines similar to those of the bacchic dancers of Jugendstil - the ideal of a fraternal friendship in perfect accord with German sensibility".

Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great

The Monastery of Saint Macarius maintains spiritual, academic and fraternal links with several monasteries abroad, including the monastery of Chevtogne in Belgium, Solesmes Abbey and the Monastery of the Transfiguration in France, Deir El Harf in Lebanon and the Convent of the Incarnation in England.

Ogboni

Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities - from highly-centralized kingdoms and empires like Oyo, to the independent towns and villages of the Ègbá and the Èkiti(EDO)benin city) - the Ogboni are recognizable for their veneration of the personified earth (Ilè or Odua) and their emphasis on both gerontocratic authority and benevolent service to the community.

Oliver J. Flanagan

He was member of the Catholic fraternal organisation the Knights of Saint Columbanus, and in 1978 was conferred a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul I.

Orangemen

Members of the modern Orange Order (also known as Orange Institution), a Protestant fraternal organisation

Parker Watkins Hardin

Republican Bradley also gained some Democratic votes from the American Protective Association, a secret fraternal group opposed to Catholics and immigrants.

Party of the Right

The Party of the Right (Yale), an elective membership intellectual, fraternal, and political society which holds debates and participates in the Yale Political Union

Peggy McDowell Curlin

Her fraternal grandmother was the state president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and a member of the women’s wing of the Masons called the Order of the Eastern Star.

Peter Claver

The Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. is the largest African-American Catholic fraternal organization in the United States.

Remi

A founding myth preserved or invented by Flodoard of Reims (d. 966) makes Remus, brother of Romulus, the eponymous founder of the Remi, having escaped their fraternal rivalry instead of dying in Latium.

Robert L. Hill

Hill based his association on black fraternal organizations, the international trade union movement, and Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bergamo

The diocese is headed by Bishop Francesco Beschi, and has a strong fraternal relationship with the city and the archdiocese of Cochabamba in Bolivia.

Royal S. Copeland

Copeland was a member of several honor societies and fraternal organizations, including the Pi Gamma Mu, international honor society in social sciences, which he served in various positions, Delta Kappa Epsilon, the New York Athletic Club, the National Democratic Club, the Elks, the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, the Shriners, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Sons of the American Revolution.

Sean Bielat

Bielat is a member of the St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Brookline and of the Catholic fraternal service organization, the Knights of Columbus.

Templars of Honor and Temperance

It is a secret fraternal order whose signs, hand grips, passwords and emblems closely resemble those of the Masons and the Odd Fellows.

Vironians

The name Vironia was also chosen for a popular Estonian academic fraternal corporation, which was established in 1900 in Riga, Latvia and currently has representation in Tartu, Tallinn, Toronto, the American East and West coasts and Australia.

William Osborn McDowell

They had seven children: Pauline T. McDowell Akins (b. 1874), Nora McDowell Culver (d. 1944), fraternal twins Rachel Kollock McDowell (1880–1949) and Malcolm McDowell (1880–1920), William Timanus McDowell, Ezra Osborne McDowell (1886–1979) and Eulilee McDowell Cook, whom they reared in the Presbyterian Church.


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