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3 unusual facts about confederation


Confederation

The Iroquois League, historically the Iroquois Confederacy, is a group of Native Americans (in what is now the United States) and First Nations (in what is now Canada) that consists of six nations: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca and the Tuscarora.

One of the most well-known is the Iroquois Confederacy, but there were many others during different eras and locations across North America; these include the Wabanaki Confederacy, Western Confederacy, Powhatan Confederacy, Seven Nations of Canada, Pontiac's Confederacy, Illinois Confederation, Tecumseh's Confederacy, Great Sioux Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy, Iron Confederacy

Iberoamerican Trilogy

The films are about a future period of human civilization defined as the Iberoamerican Era when Latin America becomes the central cultural power of the World after Hollywood collapsed, till the rising of Bolivia as a Confederation taking the all American Continent as its own territory.


2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship qualification

Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.

A.F.C. Leopards

All Footballers' Confederation Leopards Sports Club, officially abbreviated as A.F.C. Leopards and commonly known as simply A.F.C., Leopards or Ingwe (Luhya for "Leopards"), is a professional football club based in Nairobi, Kenya and founded in 1964.

Al Anbar governorate election, 2009

The National Front was led by Sheikh Ali Hatim, the tribal leader of the Dulaim tribal confederation - the largest in Anbar - and has previously clashed with Abu Risha's brother, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, when he was the head of the Anbar Salvation Council.

Alexandre Blanc

The Confédération générale du travail (CGT, General Confederation of Labor) leaders Alphonse Merrheim, Albert Bourderon and Marie Mayoux were expected to represent France, but were refused the passports they needed to travel.

Battle of Kolding

Battle of Kolding (1849), a battle between Denmark and the German Confederation during the First Schleswig War

Blue book

The CIBJO World Jewellery Confederation Blue Book is a three-part publication outlining terminology, classification and ethical guidelines for coloured gemstones, diamonds and pearls

Brazilian Footballer of the Year

Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão, an award given each year, since 2005, by the Brazilian Football Confederation and Rede Globo

Canadian Jewellers Association

The fund was set up by CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, in cooperation with the United Nations.

Canzo

This pieve or confederation of communes (comprehending the near villages of Caslino, Castelmarte, Proserpio, Eupilio, Longone, some frazioni of the current commune of Erba, and having Canzo as capital) from 784 to Martesana zone (the region straight north to Milan roughly corresponding to Brianza historical and cultural region).

Capellan Confederation

Its name is derived from the Capellan Reaches, the region of space spreading out from Terra towards the star system Capella, and for the Capellan Hegemony, once centered on Capella, which was one of the Confederation's founding members.

Chetaka

Chetaka, called King Chetaka or President Chetaka was the representative of the Licchavi clan who ruled as a Republican President in Vaishali (India) reputed to have organised the Vajjian confederation of republics comprising the 9 Mallakis, 18 Gana Rajas of Kashi/Kosala and 9 Licchavi Republics.

Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CICPA became a member of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in October 1996 and May 1997 respectively, and has developed friendly cooperation and communications with more than 50 professional accountancy organizations in other jurisdictions.

Chowdur

The Kalmuks moved into the Mangyshlak Peninsula, the Sayin Khan confederation broke up and the Choudur ended up southeast of Khiva loosely confederated, but under the authority of the Yomud.

Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation

The Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation was written by Petermann Etterlin’s from Lucerne.

Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules

The Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules (CMSB) is the international organization, recognized by the International Olympic Committee, which governs the sport of the boules.

Confederation of Health Service Employees

The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was a United Kingdom trade union representing workers primarily in the National Health Service.

Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

At the end of August 1992 the Confederation held the 11th Session of Parliament in Grozny to discuss the Abkhazian issue.

Cunhambebe

The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village.

Edmund Mortimer McDonald

In 1863, he founded the Halifax Citizen with William Garvie; the paper favoured a maritime union but opposed Confederation.

Elmer Knutson

Knutson held the belief that the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which granted legislative equality with the United Kingdom to Canada, also granted sovereignty to the provinces, because the provinces had not individually signed on to confederation.

François Léotard

Elected president of the UDF in 1996, he could not prevent the split of this confederation two years later with Alain Madelin's secession.

French period

In the Confederation itself, there were already riots against the French rule, and after the devastation of the French army during the French invasion of Russia, the commander of the Prussian Corps, Yorck, signed a ceasefire with Russia.

Gibraltar Confederation of Labour

The Gibraltar Confederation of Labour was a trade union established in the British colony of Gibraltar in 1947, and promoted by the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR).

Government of Nova Scotia

Sworn in as premier on October 22, 2013, Hon. Stephen McNeil became the 28th Premier of the Province of Nova Scotia since Confederation.

Hep-Hep riots

The antisemitic communal violence began on August 2, 1819 in Würzburg and soon reached the outer regions of the German Confederation.

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma

He was a prominent political figure from the 1970s to the 1990s, heading the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (Confédération syndicale congolaise, CSC).

Jorge Rossi Chavarría

During the years 1947 and 1948, he served as legal advisor to the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum Novarum.

Kutlug I Bilge Kagan

8. Xiyawu 奚牙勿 ; six Tele tribes in the confederation, Boke, Hun, Bayyrku, Tongren, Syge, and Kibir, had an equal status with the Uigurs; the reduced Basmils numbered eight tribes, and Karluks had three tribes calld Uch-Karkuk (Three Karkuks).

La Difference

# "Confederation: The Politics of Survival" portrayed two debates, one at the time of Canadian Confederation as re-enacted by actors, and another contemporary debate concerning the Canadian constitution featuring Quebec provincial legislative members Pierre Laporte and Marcel Masse, and Ontario provincial members Bert Lawrence and Tim Reid

Lenni

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People (Nanticoke Lenape Indians), a tribal confederation

Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar

He then became Vice-President of the Bolivian portion of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, again under Santa Cruz, who was both President of Bolivia and the Confederation's Supreme Protector in Lima.

Mastia

Mastia (or Massia of Tarshish) is the name of an ancient Iberian ethnicity, belonging to the Tartessian confederation, located in southeastern Spain and has traditionally been associated with the city of Cartagena (Spain), mainly from the analysis of classical sources in the early twentieth century made the German Adolf Schulten.

Mississauga Transitway

Also, the western section of the transitway, from Confederation to Erin Mills is expected to have a separated right-of-way, therefore gaining a Creditview Station.

Monarchy in Saskatchewan

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, presided over the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation and Princess Anne marked Regina's centennial.

Muzaffarpur district

As per recorded history the Vajjin Republic was a confederation of eight clans of which the Licchavis were the most powerful and influential.

Nushibi

After the split of the First Turkic Kaganate in 604, the Western Turkic Kaganate was initially reorganized as a "ten arrows" Onoq confederation with Nushibi 5-tribe right wing dominating over the left wing of the Dulu (Tele) group of five tribes.

Ottilien

the Ottilien Congregation, a congregation of religious houses within the Benedictine Confederation

Panjpai

The confederation's five tribes are generally given as the Alizai, Ishakzai, Noorzai, Maku, and Khogyani(Khakwani).

Pierre Brizon

The Confédération générale du travail (CGT, General Confederation of Labor) leaders Alphonse Merrheim, Albert Bourderon and Marie Mayoux were expected to represent France, but were refused the passports they needed to travel.

Reform Party of Ontario

The Reform Party of Ontario is not to be confused with the pre-Confederation Reform Party, which later became the Liberal Party of Ontario, or with the leftist United Reform party of the 1940s.

Sawlon

By the 1520s, his confederation included Shan states of Kale (Kalay), Momeik, Bhamo as well as the Burman Kingdom of Prome (Pyay).

Senzangakhona kaJama

During the chieftaincy of Senzangakhona, the Zulus were a small clan in the Mthethwa confederation which was ruled by Dingiswayo.

Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The golden age of Serbs in the early Middle Ages comes with Prince Časlav Klonimirović (r. 927-960), who managed to include all former territories; He concluded a voluntary confederation with the local chiefs of Bosnia that brought them out of Venetian-Croatia's control.

Siegfried Balke

After his resignation as Minister for Nuclear Energy, he was president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) from 1964 to 1969 and chairman of the Technical Monitoring Association (TÜV).

Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn Confederation, Kzinti Hegemony, Tholian Holdfast and Orion Pirates.

Ten Towns

The Ten Towns of Icewind Dale are a loose confederation of villages in the far North.

Tessema

Ydnekatchew Tessema, the former Ethiopian president of the Confederation of African Football, footballer and manager.

Treaty of Mozhaysk

Robert I. Frost has summarized the 1562 state of war as an "uneasy stalemate:" while Denmark, Sweden, Russia and Poland-Lithuania had staked overlapping claims, the local parties of the broken-up Livonian Confederation had at least preliminarily chosen sides and intense fighting had occurred between some of the respective armies, a stable solution was not in sight even if military engagements had waned.

Tyszowce Confederation

The Tyszowce Confederation (in Polish Konfederacja tyszowiecka) was set up by the Polish army under the command of Great Crown Hetman Stanisław Rewera Potocki and Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Lanckoroński 29 December 1655 in Tyszowce, east of Zamość.

Working Men's Club and Institute Union

Together with other club organisations such as the Royal British Legion the Association of Conservative Clubs, The National Union of Liberal Clubs and The National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs the CIU is part of CORCA (Confederation of Registered Club Associations) which lobbies Parliament on behalf of clubs.


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