X-Nico

unusual facts about The Aegis


Fire and Skoal

Membership is kept secret until the members carry canes at commencement or identify themselves in Dartmouth's yearbook, The Aegis.



see also

Aegis Trust

Based at the United Kingdom's Holocaust Centre, which opened in 1995, the Aegis Trust coordinates the UK Genocide Prevention All-Party Parliamentary Group, funds the Genocide Prevention Group (Canada) and is responsible for the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda, which commemorates the 1994 genocide and is central to education of a new generation about the dangers of ethnic division.

Air and Space Basic Course

The aegis for ASBC was The Basic School (TBS), the 6-month initial school for all newly commissioned U.S. Marine Corps officers regardless of commissioning source.

American Concession

An area of Tianjin administered on a de facto basis between 1869–1880 under the aegis of the British concession.

Anagni

It is speculated that, at the foot of the hill on which the city stands, there was the so-called Maritime Circle, where the Hernican towns of Aletrium (Alatri), Capitulum (Piglio), Verulae (Veroli), and Ferentinum (Ferentino) confederated under the aegis of Anagnia (Anagni).

Aslan Maskhadov

Maskhadov nominated himself for President of Ichkeria on 3 December 1996, for the January 1997 free democratic presidential and parliamentary elections held in Chechnya under the aegis of the OSCE, running primarily against Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

Automatic Gun-Laying Turret

The system, known as TR3548, was devised by a team led by Dr Philip Dee and designed under the aegis of chief designer Dr Alan Hodgkin, after receiving a request from the Air Ministry for such a system in early 1943.

Beit Sahour

During the First intifada and the Second Intifada, the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples (PCR) based in Beit Sahour encouraged non-violent activism under the aegis of the International Solidarity Movement.

Bijaya Jena

Jena had entered the Indian Film Industry in the 1980s, when Industry was going through a transition and the New Wave Cinema or Serious Cinema (or Art Cinema) which had flourished through the 50s and 60s (under the aegis of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen and Shyam Benegal) was floundering and dying in the 80s.

Briony Penn

The project continues under the aegis of the geography department in the University of Victoria, with active research based on Denny Island and supported by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, as a research project.

Cell Press

Benjamin Lewin founded Cell in January 1974, under the aegis of MIT Press.

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences

The newly established Jadunath Sarkar Resource Centre for Historical Research under the aegis of the Centre, which was managed by Gautam Bhadra, was set up at 'Jadunath Bhavan' under the Directorship of Partha Chatterjee.

Collaborative fiction

For example, the Baen's bar forum, known as 1632 Tech, has been a prime force behind the many works in the popular alternate history 1632 series under the aegis of Eric Flint — especially The Grantville Gazettes.

Egis

An acronym for Erieye Ground Interface Segment, military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system and is sometimes confused with the Aegis combat system.

European Forum for Urban Security

The organisation was created in 1987 in Barcelona, under the aegis of the Council of Europe and led by Gilbert Bonnemaison, former Mayor of Épinay-sur-Seine and co-creator of the French Crime Prevention Policy.

Functional molecular infection epidemiology

A consortium of scientists in India and Germany is (Project BRIDGE) already formed under the aegis of the Freie University in Berlin and the University of Hyderabad to explore and investigate the application of FMIE in public health and Veterinary arena.

Irshad Alasr Jafri

After the falling health of Mazhar Kaleem, he along with Zaheer Ahmed, Safder Shaheen, Irshad Al Asar Jaferi, Ali Hasan Gilani and Khalid Noor, took over writing the Imran Series under the aegis of Arslaan Publications.

Isle of May

The original church was expanded during the 12th century by David I of Scotland, under the aegis of Reading Abbey which had been founded by his brother-in-law, Henry I of England.

James Kip Finch

He was involved in the establishment of Camp Columbia, a summer engineering camp held near Litchfield, Connecticut, under the aegis of Columbia University.

Jean-Pierre Houdin

During 2000, they met with members of the team who, in 1986, had worked on the mystery of the Pyramid of Khufu under the aegis of the Fondation EDF.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Louis Madelin

Elected to the Académie française in 1927 (replacing Robert de Flers in seat 5), in Lorraine he became president of the Association des Amis du berceau de Jeanne d'Arc on the death of Lyautey - the Association organised mass demonstrations in Domrémy from 1937 to 1939 under the aegis of the Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc.

Nalknad Palace

The palace is a protected monument under the aegis of the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Karnataka.

Narada Productions

In 1997 (see 1997 in music), along with its affiliated companies, Narada was purchased by EMI and put under the aegis of Virgin Records.

Nausicaä Centre National de la Mer

The aquarium is part of the European “Mr Goodfish” campaign (launched in France in 2010) in association with the Acquario di Genova in Italy and the Aquarium Finisterrae in Spain, under the aegis of the World Ocean Network.

Ōigawa Railway Ikawa Line

In 1954, the line was extended under the aegis of the Chubu Electric Power Company to facilitate the construction of the Ōigawa Dam.

Olivier Auber

This same work in 1988 became the central concept of a monumental, architectural and technological project, one of the seven winners of the international competition for the creation of the "France-Japan Monument" on Awaji Island in the Bay of Kobe, launched under the aegis of François Mitterrand.

Parthiv Gohil

Under the aegis of SPICMACAY he got to accompany maestros such as Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sultan Khan, Gundecha Brothers and V. G. Jog on tanpura and learnt a lot from them as well.

Punjab Board of Investment and Trade

Punjab Board of Investment & Trade (PBIT) is the trade and investment promotion agency in Punjab, Pakistan,working autonomously under the aegis of Mr. Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister Punjab, Pakistan.

Quarterly Review

Edited by Derek Turner, the new Quarterly Review is a successor to Right Now!, and was revived under the aegis of the former Conservative MP and author, Sir Richard Body, who is Chairman of the Editorial Board.

Quicken Loans 400

It was the final season the track was operated under the aegis of the defunct empire of Larry Lopatin, as Roger Penske would purchase the facility in 1973.

Saint Peter Port

Hauteville House, Victor Hugo's house of exile, which is now a museum under the aegis of the city of Paris).

Selby Tigers

The band name that the Saint Paul neo-punk quartet the Selby Tigers adopted is an amalgam; a nod to their hometown turf on Selby Avenue, a high-school team mascot, and the aegis of a rebel army.

Sikkil Gurucharan

In 1990, the family returned to Chennai and the Sikkil Sisters wasted no time in ensuring that Gurucharan began serious music training under the aegis of Vaigal Shri S. Gnanaskandan, disciple of Dandapani Desikar and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.

Suleiman Mahmoud

As of early September 2011, he reportedly maintains a separate force from Abdelhakim Belhadj, the head of the Tripoli Military Council, though the two men are ostensibly working to integrate the anti-Gaddafi forces in western Libya into a cohesive military under the aegis of the National Transitional Council.

Tansen

Niyamat Khan Sadarang, who was one of the most influential musicians of the 18th century, had a brilliant career as singer-composer and binkar under the aegis of the Emperor Muhammad Shah (reign: 1719-1748).

Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.

Under the aegis of noted landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland, he relocated to Philadelphia in 1872, to work on development of the planned community of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

Towada Kankō Electric Railway

The 1968 Tokachi-oki Earthquake caused severe damage to the company’s assets, and it came under the aegis of the Kokusai Kōgyō Company from October 1969.

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

Membership with the World Bank, under the aegis of Ranjit Nayak, the World Bank Representative in Kosovo (since February 2007), has resulted in Kosovo being treated by the World Bank as its 186th member country, and no longer under the United Nations Security Council Resolution No.1244.

Voices in Shadows

Youth Choir was part of a group of Christian alternative rock bands, primarily based out of Orange County, California, that got their start under the aegis of Calvary Chapel.

Yvonne Oddon

After the war, Yvonne Oddon, while continuing her work at the Musée de l'Homme, took part in numerous missions under the aegis of UNESCO (Haïti, 1949) and took part in the organisation of education conferences based in Malmö in 1950 and in Ibadan in 1954; then the creation of the International Council of Museums, for which she made a classification system; and she took part, after her retirement, in numerous missions, particularly to the Museum centre in Jos, Nigeria.

Zaheer Ahmed

After his own teacher Mazhar Kaleem's health began failing, Ahmed took over writing the Imran Series, along with Safder Shaheen, Irshad Al Asar Jaferi, Ali Hasan Gilani and Khalid Noor, under the aegis of Arslaan Publications.