Founded as the town at the end of the railroad, Faith was originally the hub of a homestead boom in the period 1910-1920 ; but the drought conditions of the 1920s that led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s quickly replaced abnormally wet conditions of the early 20th Century, and the harsh winters of the Northern Plains quickly drove many sodbusters to more hospitable regions.

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.

* Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū — Founded in the 15th Century by Iizasa Chōisai Ienao.

Founded by Francis of Assisi in the early 13th Century, the Franciscan Friars emphasized devotion to the Incarnation, the humanity of Jesus Christ.

Founded in the eleventh Century, the earliest records ( 1080 – 1082 ) include the name Sancte Marie Ecclesia, Latin for " Church of St. Mary ", while a later document written in Norman-French ( 1317 ) mentions Saincte Mariglise.

Founded on September 4, 1989, Century were intended to be the first licensed alternative to RTÉ Radio 1.

A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, Founded on the War between the United States and Great Britain.

Founded by veteran animator and director Phil Roman in early 1984, it is best known for producing the source animation for The Simpsons, King of the Hill for 20th Century Fox Animation, as well as the Garfield and Peanuts animated TV specials.

Founded in April 1907, Al Ahly was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the " African Club of the Century ".

Founded in 1967 by Simmons and fellow Diner's Club refugee Len Mogel, Twenty First Century was created to publish a " counterculture " magazine called Cheetah.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

Founded in 1838 by the Baptist Community, Acadia's beginning was the result of the commitment and enthusiasm of a community determined to build a university.

Founded by the Manchus, it was the second non-Han Chinese dynasty.

Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods.

Founded on 14 June 1848 by the orders of the democratically elected Frankfurt Parliament the Reichsflottes brief existence ended with the failure of the revolution and was disbanded on 2 April 1852 ; thus, the modern Marine celebrates its birthday on 14 June.

Founded by former social-democrat party strongman Jan Nagel, it was initially held at bay for alderman positions.

Founded in 1903 by a group of high school students, the club was named Hellas ( the Greek word for Greece ), at the request of a professor of Classics.

Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia

Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression.

Founded as a broad Islamist coalition in 1989 it was led by Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic radical young preacher, Ali Belhadj.

* Founded Ar nDraiocht Fein, which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of Delaware as a U. S. 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit organization.

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly.

Founded in 1897 as Sport Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory ; they are managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest sporting partnership in Italy, thus making Juventus the first professional club in the country.

Founded near the end of the 17th century, the village was known as Takau () in the Hoklo language spoken by most of the early immigrants.

Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century.

Founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902, it was later renamed to share the name of the city in the 1930s.

Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.

Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.

Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg ( probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty and burga for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry I the Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

Founded by Joseph Smith, Jr., the faith drew its first converts while Smith was dictating the text of the Book of Mormon.

Founded in 1992, it was mostly disbanded in 2004 but continues in India and in some U. S. states.

Founded in 1989 by eleven companies ( including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, American Airlines and Data General ), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous distributed object standard.

Work began on the dictionary in 1857 but it was not until 1884 that it started to be published in unbound fascicles as work continued on the project under the name A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society.

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

Founded in 1923 as the first Catholic university in the Netherlands, it used to be called ( Catholic ) University of Nijmegen until 2004, when it took its current name.

Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or " Oxy " as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast.

Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called " Azalea City ," is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone.

Founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC, Messina was originally called Zancle, from the meaning " scythe " because of the shape of its natural harbour ( though a legend attributes the name to King Zanclus ).

Founded by the Leleges and called Ninoe it became Megalopolis (" Big City ") and Aphrodisias, sometime capital of Caria.

Founded in 1937, New Haven County has a county-wide fire-protection agency called " New Haven County Fire Emergency Plan " based in Hamden to " Coordinate Mutual Aid-Radio Problems, assist members of county at major incidents if requested, provide training ".

Founded in 1843 and initially called Elizabeth, it was renamed after Robert Dale Owen of New Harmony, the town's congressman at the time.

Founded by the Jesuits, Harbor Springs was once called L ' Arbre Croche, which means Crooked Tree.

Founded in 1832 by John A. Roebling, who is known for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, and for innovation in producing wire rope, the community was initially called " Germania ", which was soon changed to " Sachsenburg " and eventually anglicized to Saxonburg.

Founded in 1837, Jacobus was originally called New Paradise.

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.

Among its supporters were judge and future Supreme Court Justice, David Davis and local businessman and land holder Jesse W. Fell whose friend, Abraham Lincoln, was the attorney hired by the Board of Education to draw up legal documents to secure the school's funding Founded as Illinois State Normal University, its name was reflective of its primary mission as a teacher training institution ( at that time called a normal school ).

Founded in 1843 by a group of immigrants from the then independent state of Baden ( later incorporated into Germany ), is characterized by maintaining the cultural imprint of their origin, so it is called " the Germany of the Caribbean ".

Founded in August 1889 as a semi-public secondary school and chartered as Cullowhee High School in 1891 ( also called Cullowhee Academy ), it served the Cullowhee community and boarding students from neighboring counties and other states.

Founded in 1957, it was originally called Puerto Flor de Lis, then until 1989 Puerto Presidente Stroessner, after Alfredo Stroessner.

Founded in 1848, ' BZ ', as the society is called often, is the oldest of the societies of the now-defunct Sheffield Scientific School, the institution which from 1854-1956 was the sciences and engineering college of Yale University.

* Founded a charity called Puellae Faustinianae or Girls of Faustina, which assisted orphaned girls.

Founded first as a department of Syracuse University, in 1913 the College was chartered as an independent state institution, called " The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University ".

Founded in 1618 by men from Tomsk as a Cossack ostrog ( fort ) on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsk ().

Founded on January 15, 1939 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations ( now called the Union for Reform Judaism ), the then-titled National Federation of Temple Youth was a program to encourage college students to engage in synagogue life.

Founded in 1842 as the replacement and continuation of the former colonial Royal University of San Felipe ( 1738 ) ( Spanish: Real Universidad de San Felipe ), the university is often called Casa de Bello ( House of Bello ) in honor of its first president, Andrés Bello.

Founded in 1943 as an element of the military secret service they were one of the " Kriegsmarine's " most important nuclei of the so called " Kleinkampfverband " in 1944.