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American Defense Society

Clarence Smedley Thomas, Cushing Stetson, and John F. Hubbard formed the ADS in August 1915 as a splinter group from the National Security League (NSL).

Ansar al-Islam

Ansar al-Islam was formed in September 2001 from a merger of Jund al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam), led by Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, and a splinter group from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan led by Mullah Krekar.

Armenakan

Armenakan-Democratic Liberal Party, an Armenian party established in 2009 as a splinter group from the ADL

Auditorio Juan Pachín Vicéns

The tumultuous General Assembly of the then-ruling New Progressive Party held there in 1983 led to the creation of a splinter party, the Puerto Rico Renewal Party, by then San Juan mayor Hernán Padilla and the defeat of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló in the 1984 gubernatorial elections.

Bernadette Sands McKevitt

Her husband, Michael McKevitt, was the Quartermaster General of the IRA and later a founding member of an anti-Good Friday Agreement splinter group styled by the media as the 'Real Irish Republican Army'.

Cloverfield/Kishin

He tells Kishin that Mrs. Aiba sabotaged a Tagruato experiment involving the monster called Splinter of Amnion (known to the cult as God's vestige) and fused its DNA (in the form of a tiny ball) with Kishin's in order for the cult to use him as a vessel to control the monster, as the Splinter requires a host.

Eburnean

Eburnean Democratic Bloc, a splinter group of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire formed in 1949

Elva Snow

"Hold Me" was featured in 2004's The Last Run, directed by Jonathan Segal and starring Fred Savage, and "Could Ya" made an appearance in the 2005 film Splinter, directed by Kai Maurer.

François Achille Bazaine

He was wounded by a shell splinter in the head on 8 June, during the action at the Battle of Melegnano.

Franz Marc

Marc was on the list but was struck in the head and killed instantly by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 before orders for reassignment could reach him.

Front of Solidarity and Overthrow

MAA was formed in April 2011 by a splinter group of the Coalition of the Radical Left, that followed Alekos Alavanos (former President of Synaspismos).

George Roden

George Roden (January 17, 1938 – December 6, 1998), was a leader of the Branch Davidian sect, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group, and the former husband of Amo Bishop Roden.

Hungarian National Socialist Party

The Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party (HNSALWP) was formed in 1933 as a splinter group from the Smallholders Party under Zoltán Meskó.

Independent Baptist Church

The Independent Baptist Church was a splinter group from the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. formed in 1971.

Janybek Khan

He led the splinter group along with Kerei (or Girei or Keray), who was his relative, and who was also descended from the famous Urus Khan of the White Horde.

JUF

Jamaat Ul-Furquan, an Islamist splinter group of Khuddam ul-Islam banned under United Kingdom terrorism legislation

Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup

Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (or Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup) is a Meitei terrorist organization in the state of Manipur in India formed in January 1994 by the unification of splinter groups like Ibopishak faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) along with United National Liberation Front (UNLF) led by Namoijam Oken and the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) led by Meiraba.

Kiruna Party

It was founded in 1994 as a splinter group of the local branch of the Social Democrats and was led by Lars Törnman from 1994 until 2010, when Törnman left the party for the Social Democrats.

Mescalero

Nautzili (aka Natzili, Nautzile, Nodzilla - "buffalo", chief of the Guhlkahéndé and southern Lipan splinter groups living in northern Mexico, moved to reservation in 1876, had assumed in 1879 leadership of the largest number of Mescalero reservation bands (including the Lipan) and persuaded many warriors not to join the Chihenne chief Victorio in Victorio's War)

Moss Icon

In 1990 a splinter project of Moss Icon was formed called Breathing Walker, containing all four members of Moss Icon plus Alex Badertscher on bass, Zak Fusciello on percussion, and Tim Horner on violin.

One Nation

One Nation NSW, a defunct splinter group of the above, operating exclusively in New South Wales

Party of Labour of Spain

The Catalan group unified with small splinter fractions of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), especially from Seville.

Peoples Republican Party

The Peoples Republican Party or Republican Party of India (Kawade) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India.

Peruvian literature

There were various splinter groups among the Avant-Gardist poets, whose major exponents were Xavier Abril, Alberto Hidalgo, Sebastián Salazar Bondy and Carlos Germán Belli.

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Chad

It was born in 1977 as a splinter group from Goukouni Oueddei's People's Armed Forces (FAP), and originally assumed the name of Third Liberation Army of the FROLINAT.

Revolutionary Communist Organising Committee

The group had its origins in the faction led by Bharat Mohan Adhikari in the early 1970s, which was formed by a section of the Eastern Koshi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (which had practically separated itself from the mother party and functioned in an autonomous manner) and a small splinter section of the Gandaki-based Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Communist Party.

Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya

She engaged the ex-German battlecruiser Yavuz once, but only inflicted splinter damage while taking no damage herself.

Saab 105

Some were painted in the light green / dark green / tan "splinter" camouflage associated with the SAAB Viggen fighter.

Sigurd the Crusader

Sigurd made his capital in Konghelle (Kungälv in present-day Sweden) and built a strong castle there to live in, and he also kept the relic given to him by King Baldwin, a splinter reputed to be from the True Cross.

Teisutis Zikaras

Around 1960, he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Lenton Parr to form a splinter group which exhibited together as the 'Centre Five'.

Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam

Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam is a political organisation and a splinter group of Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam.

The Place I Love

NME critic Bob Woffinden described "Costafine Town" as an "attractive" song and a "very promising beginning" for both Splinter and the new record label.

The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation

The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation is the second full length release by rock band Zao, released on Tooth & Nail Records on April 1, 1997.

Timeline of the Irish Republican Army

There is a further dispute regarding the 1969 split between the "Official" IRA and the (subsequently dominant) splinter groups the Provisional IRA and Irish National Liberation Army, again despite widespread usage in practice.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate is a 2006 novel set in the Splinter Cell series and a prequel to the 2005 novel Operation Barracuda.

United Consumers

In October 2006 Senator Fernando Rossi, splinter from the Party of Italian Communists, joined the party, but in September 2007 he left it to form his own Citizens' Political Movement.

Windproof smock

Both items were screen printed with colour-fast pigments in a bold splinter design, with colours similar to that of the Denison.

Young Turks

The unity among the Young Turks that originated from the Young Turk Revolution began to splinter in face of the realities of the ongoing dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, especially with the onset of World War I in 1914, with the Ottoman Empire joining the Central Powers against the Allies.

Yuri Bogdanovich

Bogdanovich supported the latter position and when Land and Liberty broke in two, he joined the resulting splinter organization, the People's Will (Narodnaya Volya).


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