Founded in 1996 in Lucca, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work.

* Haunted Ontario – Founded in 1996 by Bob Milne, Haunted Ontario chronicles the ghosts, spirits, spooks, and poltergeists said to haunt Canada's most populated province.

Founded under Conservative legislation that privatised the railways, Railtrack took control of the railway infrastructure on 1 April 1994 and was floated on the Stock Exchange in May 1996.

Founded in 1996 and awarded University status in 2002, it consists of the Lagos Business School and of Enterprise Development Services.

Founded in May 1996, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of three medical schools in the state of Kentucky.

Founded by Hal Philipp in 1996, QRG focused on using standard microcontrollers pre-programmed as touch sensors, including devices sourced from several companies including Atmel.

Founded in late 1996, by Matt Skiba, bassist Rob Doran and drummer Glenn Porter, Alkaline Trio released its debut single, " Sundials ", in 1997.

Founded in 1994 by Ross Smith, Gary Tarolli and Scott Sellers ( all SGI alumni ) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm, 3dfx released its Voodoo Graphics chip in 1996.

Founded in 1965 and based in Carson City, Nevada, the firm came under scrutiny by state safety officials after a fatal accident in 1985, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July bankrupt in July 1996.

* Tetsu-ryu-Ha Shito-Ryu: Founded by Ted A. Hines, student of Richard Baillargeon and Shogo Kuniba, in Ohio in 1996.

Founded in 1996, Stamps. com is the brainchild of Jim McDermott, Ari Engelberg and Jeff Green.

Founded in 1996 after Clyde Smoll moved the Elmira Pioneers to Lowell, Massachusetts, the Spinners play in the New York-Penn League, which has a Short-Season A classification with 76 games a year.

Founded in 1961, it was run by the Mathematical Association from 1975 until its adoption by the UKMT in 1996.

Founded in 1996 in South Korea, Game Park entered the industry using government money.

:: Founded in 1996, divided in 6 chapters around the country.

Founded in 1996, it moved to Seattle in 1999.

Founded in 1996, the team plays in the USL Professional Division, the third tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, having self-relegated from the USSF D2 Pro League at the end of the 2010 season.

Founded by students Onur Günday, Emir Kısagün and Mustafa Yazıcı in 1996, the club's goal was to create real-life activities for students to practice English.

Founded in 1996, Wildplum specializes in acoustic music, from singer / songwriters to string bands through chamber orchestras.

Founded in 1996, with the amalgamation of the Curragh RFC, Kilcullen RFC and Athgarvan RFC, Newbridge RFC compete in the J1 Division 1 Leinster League.

Founded in 1996, the award-winning Flea Theater was originally formed out of the purely artistic impulse to create “ a joyful hell in a small space ”.

Founded as an ASIC design center in 1996 by SINTEF SI researchers Geir Førre, Sverre D. Moen, and Svein A. Tunheim.

Founded in 1996, the company pioneered the use of web services to connect software applications together within a single organization and across the Internet.

Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down as well.

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.

Founded in 1848 by a group of Oregonians, the placers were so rich that the miners risked starvation rather than head to Stockton to replenish their supplies ( one finally did and made it rich by becoming a merchant ).

Founded in 1908 by the Sisters of Mercy as a women's college on the former estate of George Jay Gould I, women made up 88 % of the student population in Fall 2006.

Founded in 1704, Whiteland Township was made up of what is today known as East and West Whiteland townships.

Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic " Hammer Horror " films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s.

Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers ' Association of America ( PGA of America ) is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28, 000 men and women golf professional members.

Founded in 1958, Filmways had never quite made it into the big leagues of filmmaking and had lost nearly $ 20 million during the nine months ending in November 1981.

Founded in 1667 when the Uplandian Cavalry were made into a royal guards regiment.

Founded in 1923 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, have encouraged over 13 million students, recognized more than 9 million young artists and writers, and made available more than $ 25 million in awards and scholarships.

Founded in 1982, the Acton Regional County Municipality is made up of eight smaller municipalities containing a little fewer than 16, 000 people.

Founded in 1967 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the order promotes Humanistic Buddhism, a modern Chinese Buddhist thought developed through the 20th Century and made popular by this and other modern Chinese Buddhist orders.

Founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis Marx and his brother David, the company's basic aim was to " give the customer more toy for less money ," and stressed that " quality is not negotiable "-two values that made the company highly successful.

Founded in 1949, only two years after the signing of the National Defense Act of 1947 which made the Air Force a separate armed force, Detachment 35 has become one of the premier commissioning sources for ROTC in the country.

Founded in Padua in 1959 by Claudio Scimone, it has made a reputation especially with Italian Baroque music, recording many works by Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Francesco Geminiani, Benedetto Marcello and Giuseppe Tartini.

Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the home of its North American headquarters, Bachmann is today part of the Kader group, who model products are made at a Chinese Government joint-venture plant in Dongguan, China.

Founded in 1833 by Henry Carlisle, the company originally specialized in vanity products such as parasol handles and Spanish combs made of ivory horns.

Founded in 2004 by a network primarily, but not exclusively, made up of conservatives and libertarians led by Simon, it was originally intended as a forum to present blogs " with the intention of ... aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising and creating our own professional news service " but now includes an online television service, PJTV, as well.

Founded in 1963 after breaking away from honda, the company originally made parts for Honda.

Founded in 1982 by Raymond Kurzweil, a developer of reading machines for the blind, the company made use of many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines and adapted them to musical purposes.

Founded in the early 1870s, the Colored Normal School was initially financed by the federal Freedmen's Bureau until it was made part of the Richmond city school system in 1876.

Founded by Ulugh Beg in the early 15th century, the observatory made considerable progress in observational astronomy.

Founded by Heath Hooligan and Travis Miller in the Spring of 2011, Cause For Concern has already made an impact in their hometown of South Bend, IN, and are touring regionally in the Summer of 2012.

Founded on December 1, 1978, it is made up mainly of a coastal plain, containing large lagoons and rolling hills of limestone.

Founded in 1948 by Melvin Lane and incorporated in 1956, this Brooklyn-based company originally made children's phonographs.