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Agudas Yisroel

Agudath Israel of America, a Haredi Jewish communal organization in the United States

Anarchism in Iceland

The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin first noted in his book Mutual Aid that Norse society, from which the settlers in Iceland came, had various "mutual aid" institutions, including communal land ownership (based around what he called "the village community") and a form of social self-administration, the "Thing" – both local and Iceland-wide – which can be considered a "primitive" form of the anarchist communal assembly.

Baruch Epstein

Epstein grew up in Novarodok, where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of Pinsk after his marriage and lived there until his death, apart from a period from 1923 to 1926, which he spent in the United States of America looking (unsuccessfully) for a rabbinic position.

Benjamin Cohen

Sir Benjamin Cohen, 1st Baronet (1844–1909), British politician and Jewish communal leader, MP for Islington East, 1892–1906

Brothertown Indians

Upon arrival, the Brothertown cleared their communal land and began farming, after building a church near Jericho.

Carl Alpert

Carl Alpert (May 12, 1913 – May 12, 2005) was a Boston-born journalist, author, communal worker and public relations specialist, first in America and then in Israel (where he settled in 1952 after making Aliyah).

Cavriana

The road between Cerlongo and Guidizzolo, in the communal territory of Cavriana, was the location of Alfonso de Portago's fatal accident in the 1957 Mille Miglia.

Chhagalnaiya Upazila

Contrary to a popular tale involving the visit of Mahatma Gandhi to ease communal tension of this area, along with his constant companion on tours, a goat ("chhagal" in Bangla), the name of this region considerably antedates that incident of communal riots in 1946.

Christian Waber

Waber has been communal councillor at Wasen, in the Sumiswald commune of Emmental, from 1984 to 1992.

Claude Nunney

He died aged 25, 16 days after receiving what proved to be mortal wounds and was buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, near Aubigny-en-Artois (Grave reference number IV. B. 39).

Colonial Fiji

A further 8 seats were reserved for "General electors" - Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders, and other minorities; 3 of these were "communal" and 5 "national." With this compromise, Fiji became independent on 10 October 1970.

Communal Blood

"Communal Blood" is a self-released single by the American instrumental band This Will Destroy You, and is the first single to be taken from their second album Tunnel Blanket.

Communal garden

One of the scenes in the 1999 film Notting Hill involves the two main characters, Anna (Julia Roberts) and William (Hugh Grant), breaking into private and locked communal gardens by climbing over the wall at night after a dinner party.

Consumer-generated advertising

Whenever marketing decisions are the result of communing with the brand's audience to help drive the development of a campaign, they are engaging in "communal research." For example, Peter Jackson, in the making of The Lord of the Rings, reached out to loyal followers of the book to help weigh in on some major directorial decisions.

Darndale

This idea of a communal space fostering community spirit was based on a large housing scheme called Cricketer's Way, located in Andover, Hampshire, England.

Fouquieria columnaris

The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location.

Gaetano Esposito

He did get commissions in the last decade of the 19th century to decorate the Caffè Gambrinus in Naples, the ceiling (1895) of the Garibaldi Communal theater at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and the ceiling (1897-1898) of the refurbished Palazzo della Borsa in Naples where he painted allegories of work and history.

Gavli

According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.

Henri Coandă

Coandă attended Elementary school at the Petrache Poenaru Communal School in Bucharest, then (1896) Began his secondary school career at the Liceu Sf. Sava (Saint Sava National College).

Hutchesontown C

Spence and Robertson, partly inspired by Le Corbusier’s giant maisonette blocks in Marseille, designed two "colossal, rugged 20-storey slabs" featuring inset communal balconies.

Igrot Kodesh

Its purview encompassing philosophy (be it Talmudic, Halachic, Hasidic, mystical or other), scientific matters, global events, counsel in private issues, schooling, and social/communal proceedings.

Isaac Leucht

Regarding Leucht's Jewish communal work, his great grandson, Bill Rosen, in a nostalgic letter detailing his own departure from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, wrote that during his great-grandfather's years in New Orleans, Leucht "started or helped develop every major Jewish institution of his time - he built Touro Synagogue, laid the corner stone of Touro Infirmary and worked ten years to develop the Newman School," institutions that continue to service New Orleans.

ISODE

isode or iso'de is the name of the communal dwellings of the Piaroa, an indigenous American ethnic group living along the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

Jean Hamilius

He sat in the Chamber of Deputies between 1969 and 1984 (excepting the five years he spent as a minister), and in the communal council of Luxembourg City (1969 – 1974).

Joi Baba Felunath

Subaltern texts like the caste and the communal divide do make their presence felt, but they exist as subplots, that further enrich the viewer's understanding.

Karam Chand Jain

For his good performance, the British Government conferred him the title of Rai Sahib in 1945 and was nominated for the title of Rai Bahadur in 1947, but due to communal riots across the country, the list of nominees was never made public.

Koundi et le jeudi national

They organise a union, the Organisation for Communal Interests, and create a cocoa plantation over several hectares to be able to depend on themselves.

L. K. Advani

Historian Ramachandra Guha writes that despite the factional wars within the Janata government, its period in power had seen a rise in support for the RSS, marked by a wave of communal violence in the early 1980s.

Levantine cuisine

Sami Zubaida, "National, Communal and Global Dimensions in Middle Eastern Food Cultures" in Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper, A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East, London and New York, 1994 and 2000, ISBN 1-86064-603-4, p. 35.

LGBT rights in Poland

At the end of 2010, the Court in Złotów decided that the same-sex partner of a woman who had died was entitled to continue the lease on their communal apartment.

Lionel Cohen

Lionel Louis Cohen (1832–1887), English financier, politician, and communal worker

Machiguenga Communal Reserve

The Machiguenga Communal Reserve (Reserva Comunal Machiguenga) is a protected area in Peru located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Echarate District.

Mikra British Cemetery

The cemetery is in Kalamaria, a district of Thessaloniki, it is located between the army camp of Dalipi and the communal Greek cemetery in Kalamaria, off Konstantinou Karamanli Street.

Oskar Freysinger

From 1997 and 2001, he was a communal counselor at Savièse for the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.

Parliament of Fiji Islands

The remaining 46 are reserved for Fiji's ethnic communities and are elected from communal electoral rolls: 23 Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman, and 3 "General electors" (Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities).

Paul of Burgos

Kenneth Levin has stated that when a wave of forced conversions of Jews to Christianity began in 1411, Paul "took a leading role in the assault on Spain’s remaining Jews and was responsible for drawing up edicts that isolated the Jews, stripped them of many communal rights, and, most importantly, deprived them of almost all means of earning a living, leaving them with the choice of death by privation for themselves and their families or conversion."

Pithapuram

Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham, Near Old Bus Stand – Established in 1472 AD in India,working for National Integration and Communal Harmony.

Praveen Togadia

Praveen Togadia was arrested in August 2013 from Ayodhya along with other VHP leaders by the Uttar Pradesh Police to foil the defiant saffron outfit's controversial 'Chaurasi Kosi Parikrama Yatra' that was banned over fears of communal flareup.

Rafael Israelyan

Between 1926-1928, he studied at the architectural faculty of the Academy of Arts in Tiflis, and then at the architectural faculty of the Institute of Communal Construction of Leningrad named after Ilya Repin which he had graduated excellently in 1934, with the title of artist-architect.

Saddle the Wind

He collaborates with the main landowner Dennis Deneen (Donald Crisp), from whom he rents the ranch, to preserve communal stability.

San Salvatore Telesino

The communal territory includes the remains (walls, amphitheater) of the ancient Telesia, a Samnite city.

Shower

As surgeon-general at Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, Delabost had previously replaced individual baths with mandatory communal showers for use by prisoners, arguing that they were more economic and hygienic.

Stade Boy Konen

It is named after René 'Boy' Konen, the Minister for Public Works under Pierre Werner and a member of Luxembourg City's communal council.

Susan Gordon

She was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, where she had settled after returning to her Jewish roots and marrying Avi Aviner, who had been a communal leader to the Jews of Tokyo.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties in which LSD-laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.

The Sweets of Sin

Their early time in Europe were characterised by a sharing attitude, with members varying in their joy at having communal access to money, cigarettes and living space for three was on the bedroom floor of a family's flat in the industrial, provincial Ruhr region.

The Woman Warrior

Although the story takes place in 1924 before the time of the Chinese Revolution, we get the sense that there are intense communal ties binding No Name Woman’s village together.

Vidyaben Shah

After the Godhra riots in Gujarat, disregarding her advancing years, at the request of Sonia Gandhi, she went from district to district, to spread the message of peace and communal harmony in Gujarat.

Yanesha people

In 1988, a territory of over 34,774 hectares was set up in Palcazu District as the Yanesha' Communal Reservation (Reserva Communal Yanesha) with the purpose of protecting important fauna that serves as sustenance to Yanesha' communities in the area.


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