Founded by the Herrick family during the early part of the 20th century, Tecumseh Products initially began business manufacturing refrigeration compressors.

Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations in 1945, was especially active in 1945 and 1946, and largely shut down operations in 1947.

The first graduate school of business in the United States was the Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees ( masters ) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebearer of the modern MBA degree.

Founded in 1436 as a monastery village, the city was part of the Principality of Moldavia, which, starting with the 16th century fell under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.

Founded in 1628, L ' Eglise du Saint-Esprit in New York is older, but it left the French Reformed movement in 1804 to become part of the Episcopal Church.

Founded in 1887, the Pelicans became part of the Southern Association in 1901.

Founded by Simon Newman in 1888, the City of Newman is part of the West Side of California's central valley.

Founded in 1889, the college has approximately 2000 undergraduate students who are very involved in the town through community service ; the college also serves as a large part of the local economy as it employs many Goffstown residents and students patronize local businesses, bars, and stores.

Founded around 1760 the operational part worked until the 1970s and the empty buildings stood until the late 1980s.

Founded for the most part by New England settlers, Liverpool maintained strong ties with the American colonies until the sudden outbreak of the American Revolution.

Founded in 1825 with the intent of building large collections in the fields of culture and natural history, it became the grounds for most of the academic activity in the city, a tradition which has prevailed since the museum became part of the University of Bergen.

Founded in 1917, the college offers 49 majors and 34 minors and requires all its students to complete 20 credits in the Development of Western Civilization, which serves as a major part of the college's core curriculum.

Founded in Detroit in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law, the law school moved to East Lansing in 1995 becoming an integral part of the university.

Founded in 1908 by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a normal school, during much of the twentieth century it was part of the University of Virginia, until separating in 1972.

Founded in West Berlin during the early Cold War period and born out of the increasingly Communist-controlled Humboldt University, its name refers to West Berlin's status as part of the free world, as opposed to the Soviet-occupied areas surrounding the city.

Founded in 1974, the École de technologie supérieure is part of the Université du Québec system.

Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) in the 1930s, the UAW grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s.

Founded in 1946 as part of Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan, the discs were initially a hit, because of the novelty of the colorful artwork, and the improved sound compared to the shellac records dominant at the time.

Founded in 1881, the Chichester Symphony Orchestra plays an important part in maintaining the classical music tradition of the area.

Founded as a key part of the Mitsui zaibatsu ( family-owned conglomerate ) during the early industrialization of Japan, the company is now independent of the zaibatsu, but remains part of the Mitsui keiretsu ( group of aligned companies ).

Founded in 1616 by the Kingdom of Portugal, Belém was the first European colony on the Amazon but did not become part of Brazil until 1775.

Founded by King Edward VI in 1552, it is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham, and is widely regarded as one of the most academically successful schools in the country, according to various league tables.

Founded in Winnipeg in 1979, the company expanded across the country and became part of the Ipsos Group in 2000.

Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, by the end of World War II the MB had an estimated two million members.

Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley within the Church of England.

Founded in the early 1960s, it supported the Quebec sovereignty movement.

Founded in 1885 by members of the occultist movement Theosophical Society — Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade

Founded in 1982, WCCN was originally called the " Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua " and was active in the US-Nicaragua " sister city " movement, which promoted people-to-people projects and locally based " municipal foreign policies " by individual U. S. cities as an alternative to the militaristic foreign policy of the U. S. government under President Ronald Reagan.

Founded by John Higgins in 1968 as a small communal house in Costa Mesa, CA, the movement quickly grew to a very large movement catering mostly to disaffected college-age youth.

* Women's rights movement — Founded by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and published a Declaration of Sentiments calling for the social and legal equality of women.

Founded in 1949 by Bob Luitweiler and his friends as a peace movement, Servas International is a non-profit, worldwide, cooperative, cultural exchange network bringing people together to build understanding, tolerance, mutual-respect, and world peace.

Founded and led by Plínio Salgado, a literary figure who was somewhat famous for his participation in the 1922 Modern Art Week, the movement had adopted some characteristics of European mass movements of those times, specifically of Italian Fascism, but differentiating itself from some forms of fascism in that Salgado did not preach racism.

Founded in 1942 under the guidance of José Ardévol, a Catalan composer established in Cuba since 1930, the " Grupo de Renovación Musical " served as a platform for a group of young composers to develop a proactive movement with the purpose of improving and literally renovating the quality of the Cuban musical environment.

Other commemorative works written around this time include the Concerto for Strings ( written in 1938 ), the slow movement of which is in joint memory of Michael and Edward Elgar ; the hymn tune Michael ( to the words " All My Hope on God is Founded " by Robert Bridges ); and the unfinished Cello Concerto, on which Howells had been working at the time of the boy's death and which he found himself unable to complete.

Founded in 1900, the Ring was at one time influential in the labor movement through its participation in and leadership of the Jewish Labor Committee.

Founded on September 5, 1965 by a group of leftist Muslim Iranian university students as an Islamic and Marxist political mass movement.

Founded in 1972, the World Plan Executive Council ( WPEC ) was established in the U. S. as a non-profit educational corporation to guide the Transcendental Meditation movement.

Founded in 1864, the IWA was the first mass movement with a specifically international focus.

Founded in 1943 in Trento, northern Italy by Chiara Lubich as a religious movement, the Focolare Movement, though primarily Roman Catholic, now has strong links to the major Christian denominations and other religions, or in some cases, with the non-religious.

Founded in 1970 by Ron Turner to publish the ecologically-themed comics magazine Slow Death Funnies, followed by the all-female anthology It Ain't Me Babe, Last Gasp soon became a major part of the underground comics / comix movement.

Founded in 1912, it represented the more moderate wing of the labour movement.

Founded in 1909, Young Judaea is a youth movement.

Founded in 1999, it is based on the ideology of the Meimad movement founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital.

Founded as part of the Arts and Crafts movement a century ago, CCS has always been practical, professional and business oriented.

Founded in Taranaki by the prophet Te Ua Haumene, it incorporated Biblical and Māori spiritual elements and promised its followers deliverance from Pākehā domination, providing a religious aspect to the issue of Māori independence, which had until then been a purely political movement.