Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the " Esposizione Internazionale d ' Arte Cinematografica ", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.

Founded as a late 19th century railroad town, it has transitioned over the course of more than a century into a 21st century commercial hub.

Founded in 1984, Western Wayne Heritage, Inc. has been instrumental in promoting the history and culture of the Cambridge City area during the recent antique-history tourist boom of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Founded in the late 18th century, Granjeno has a history that predates Texas statehood.

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

Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record shop, alongside record producer Robert Gordon, the label ( whose name was chosen because the original name, ' Warped Records ' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone ) soon became home to artists who would be influential in electronic music.

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

Founded by the late Marshall Erdman and designed by architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Middleton Hills is credited as being the first such neighborhood in Wisconsin.

Founded in 1524 at the request of neighbors, it has its origin in a place for the faithful women, where they gathered to pray to the late fifteenth century next to the Chapel of Santa Maria del Castillo.

Founded in 1947 by engineer Gerhard Mueller, who is credited with the invention of the modern detachable chairlift in the late 1940s, it was one of the most prolific and respected aerial lift manufacturers in skiing history.

The only purpose-built UK marionette theatre is The Harlequin Puppet Theatre ( built 1958 ) in Rhos on Sea, North Wales, Founded by the late Eric Bramall FRSA and continued by Chris Somerville.

Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating entity in computing, but by the late 1950s its computing equipment was still limited to electromechanical accounting machines such as the Sensimatic ; as such it had nothing to compete with its traditional rivals IBM and NCR who had started to produce larger-scale computers, or with recently-founded Univac.

Founded in late 1998, the main motto of the IIPF is " Iran for all Iranians " ( ایران برای همه ایرانیان in Persian ).

* Toyama-ryū — Founded in the late 19th, early 20th century to instruct officers at the Toyama Military Academy.

Founded late in the 3rd century BCE, by merchant adventurers from Miletus, Tanais quickly developed into an emporium at the farthest northeastern extension of the Hellenic cultural sphere.

Founded by Peter van Stolk in 1986, Jones Soda Co. started off as a beverage distributor in Western Canada in the late 1980s.

Founded in late 1881, it was originally one of several competing organizations of descendants of Union veterans.

Founded as late as 1853 during the German colonization of southern Chile, Puerto Montt soon outgrew older neighboring cities due to its strategic position at the southern end of the Chilean Central Valley being a gateway city into Chiloé Archipelago, Llanquihue and Nahuel Huapi lakes and Western Patagonia.

Founded by the late Roye England, the museum is run by a group of volunteers and is open to the public most weekends and holidays.

Founded as the Graduate Society in 1965, it became a college in 2003 and was named after the university's then chancellor, the late Sir Peter Ustinov.

Founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as the company's first general director through 1983, Seattle Opera's season runs from August to late May, with five or six operas offered and with eight to ten performances each, often with double casts in major roles to allow for successive evening presentations.

Founded in late October 1973 by building magnate Thomas Origer, he was the first owner to purchase a franchise, for around $ 400, 000.

Founded as a neighborhood in the late 1860s, the neighborhood today is a middle-class area comprising mainly single family homes, interspersed with remaining industrial sites along the river and a large railyard.

Founded by the late jazz drummer Billy Higgins and poet / community arts activist Kamau Daáood in 1989, it hosts the world renowned Anansi Writers Workshop ( notable alumni include Michael Datcher ( Raising Fences ), Ruth Forman, Derrick I. M.

Founded in the 16th century, Keflavík developed on account of its fishing and fish processing industry, founded by Scottish entrepreneurs and engineers.

Founded in 777, it was enlarged in the 12th century and modified again in the 16th century with the introduction of a portico.

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 the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries ; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s.

Founded in the 16th century, it was built on the site of the ancient city of Mamtir ( deriving from " Mah Mithra " " great Mithra ).

Founded by Spanish explorers as " Santa María de los Valles de Chiclayo " in the 16th century, it was declared a city on 15 April 1835 by president Felipe Santiago Salaverry.

Founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners, it was named after 16th century merchant Sir Andrew Judde, whose endowment helped fund the school.

Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it was housed on a site adjacent to Manchester parish church ( later the cathedral ) until 1932, when it moved to the present site in Fallowfield.

Founded in 1860, it is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India.

Founded in the 16th or seventeenth century by a slave named Diawandé, Nioro attained its greatest height in the eighteenth century when it served as the capital of the Bambara kingdom of Kaarta.

Founded by French explorers in the 16th century, Alcântara was later conquered by the Portuguese, who used the small village as a base to take São Luís from the Dutch in 1646.

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

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 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 by the Phoenicians in the mid-9th century BC, it was a powerful thalassocratic city-state with a vast commercial network.

Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century.

Founded in the 14th century by the the possibly mythical chief of the Wolof Ndiadiane Ndiaye, who was a Serer of Waalo ( Ndiaye is originally a Serer surname

Founded in the fifth century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the best known Mahayana Buddhist monastery to the Western world.

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

Founded in the 3rd century CE by Plotinus, The Neoplatonist tradition has clear echoes in the Zohar, as indeed in many forms of mystical spirituality, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim.

Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist John Gregg Fee ( 1816 – 1901 ), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century.

Founded by Pope Pius V ( Antonio Ghislieri ) in 1567, since 18th century laically managed, nowadays under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, it is ranked among high qualifying institutions by the Italian Ministry for Education and University.

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 in the 9th century by the Counts of Anjou, was expanded to its current size in the 13th century.

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the state university in Northern France was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then as Université de Lille with faculty expansion from Douai to Lille from mid-19th century onwards.

Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2, 300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.

Founded in the nineteenth century in Manhattan as a nursing home to serve blacks, the hospital elements had grown in importance.