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The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.
He first articulated this in 1837, saying, " Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.
* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.
The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.
He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.
The former, also known as Iulus ( or Julius ), founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.
: For the first time since cities were built and founded,
The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.
After a first unsuccessful attempt at colonisation in 497 BC by the Milesian Tyrant Histiaeus, the Athenians founded a first colony at Ennea-Hodoi (‘ Nine Ways ’) in 465, but these first ten thousand colonists were massacred by the Thracians.
* 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.
King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".
The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.
The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.
The first actual glue factory was founded in Holland in the early 18th century.
The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.
However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

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* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.
* 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech ) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
The Defender was one of only three African-American dailies in the United States ; the other two are the Atlanta Daily World, the first black newspaper founded as a daily in 1928, and the New York Daily Challenge, founded in 1971.
It was founded in 1857 as Hurtsville and named for Joel Hurt, Sr. ( whose son, Joel Hurt, was an important developer of Atlanta, Georgia ).
Etowah was founded in 1906, primarily as a location for a depot on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad ( L & N ) line as part of a more direct route between Atlanta and Cincinnati.
Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, the Orchestra was officially founded in 1945 and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its conductor until 1966.
In 1970, Shaw founded a choir, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
Ivy Lee was born near Cedartown, Georgia on July 16, 1877 as the son of a Methodist minister, James Wideman Lee, who founded an important Atlanta family.
It was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1885 by Alexander C. King and Jack Spalding.
In 1996, Brown moved to Atlanta, Georgia and founded Fields of Flowers, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to providing educational opportunities for impoverished African-American children.
On February 14, 1867, just two years after the American Civil War, the Augusta Institute was founded by William Jefferson White, an Atlanta Baptist minister and cabinetmaker, with the support of the Rev.
In 2006, Big Boi founded the Big Kidz Foundation a nonprofit organization to help youth in Atlanta.
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association ( AHEPA ) is a masonic service organization founded on July 26, 1922 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The AHEPA was founded as a fraternity in Atlanta, Georgia in July 1922 following growing attacks on Greek Americans and Greek American businesses by the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) and others.
She came from a prominent and upper middle class Jewish family of industrialists who two generations earlier had founded the first synagogue in Atlanta.
In 1907, Gaston B. Cashwell, called the Apostle of Pentecost in the South, founded a periodical called The Bridegroom's Messenger, in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1978 David Scott founded owned Dayn-Mark Advertising ( from the names of his two daughters, Dayna and Marcie ), which places billboards and other forms of advertising in the Atlanta area.
The CofCC was founded in 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, and is now headquartered in St. Louis.
Its roster of labels by this time included: Polydor, Mercury, London, London / FFRR, Casablanca ( until 1986, later to be reincarnated in 1994 ), RSO, De-Lite, Riva, Threshold ( owned by The Moody Blues ), Tin Pan Alley ( under Polydor ), and Atlanta Artists ( founded by Cameo lead singer Larry Blackmon ) all consolidated into PolyGram Records, Inc.
Later, in 1947, he founded Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta and co-designed the course with Robert Trent Jones.
In 1987, he retired from the travel agency business he founded in 1981 and began giving travel advice in guest appearances on Atlanta radio.

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