* KAOS (" Killing as organised sport "), an alternative name for Assassin

What Coubertin saw on the playing fields of Rugby and the other English schools he visited was how “ organised sport can create moral and social strength ”.

Alpine ski racing as an organised sport commenced in both America and Australia.

By the middle of the century large ' jacht ' fleets were found around the Dutch coast and the Dutch states organised large ' reviews ' of private and war yachts for special occasions, thus putting in place the groundwork for the modern sport of yachting.

Prost also took part in the Race of Champions in 2010, a race organised for legends of motor sport to compete in equal machinery.

In the middle of 2008, a working group known as the " Car of the Future " project and led by former driver Mark Skaife was organised by V8 Supercars to investigate future directions for the sport.

The Bulgarian Volleyball Federation is the world's second-oldest, and it was an exhibition tournament organised by the BVF in Sofia that convinced the International Olympic Committee to include volleyball as an olympic sport in 1957.

* Division ( sport ), a group of teams in organised sport who compete for a divisional title

Firstly, a former High Master of St Paul's School, Richard Mulcaster is credited with taking mob football and turning it into an organised, refereed team sport that was considered beneficial for schoolboys.

* 1861: Alpine ski racing as an organised sport commences in America, Australia and Norway.

On November 9, 1898 the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (" Union of the French Societies for Athletic Sports " or USFSA ) put out an announcement that it would have sole right to any organised sport held during the World's Fair.

His description in Positions of " footeball " as a refereed team sport is the earliest reference to organised modern football.

It is ostensibly recognised as one of the top graduate programmes in sport, The Humanities of Sport module is organised by the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort, whilst the Management of Sport module is taught by SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy and the final Sports Law module by Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

IDBF's membership application had been previously blocked by the GAISF member representing canoe and kayak racing, an international sporting association that originated early in the 20th century following the development of canoe sport in the late 19th century and which claimed to automatically control the boat races which have existed for over two thousand years prior, despite not having organised any competitions or promoted the activity until only very recently and some 30 years after the international modern sport was already being organised and promoted by dragon boat specialists with the assistance of the rowing fraternity.

In the early years of organised football in Wales, football was very much the sport of North Wales rather than the rugby union playing south – the FAW was founded in Ruabon, near Wrexham in 1876, and Wrexham remained the site of the FAW's head office until 1986 ; it was not until 1912 that a southern team, Cardiff City, won the Welsh Cup for the first time.

The English public-school background of organised sport in the 19th and early 20th century led to a paternalism that tended to discourage women's involvement in sports, with, for example, no women officially competing in the 1896 Olympic Games.

He developed the canoe as a specialised sailing vessel, and by the latter 1870s sailing canoes were taking part in organised racing, and providing keen amateur sport at reasonable cost at a time when yachting was an activity for the wealthy.

He created the tradition of the Olympic torch relay when he organised the 1936 build-up event, and was an influential historian of sport, particularly the Olympic games.

The emergence of organised sport in England in the nineteenth century, where football games were played by written rules establishment by the Football Association and the Rugby Football Union, led to the soccer and rugby codes becoming popular in Britain and spreading to Ireland.

Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organised abuse, sadistic ritual abuse and other variants ) was a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout the country and eventually to many parts of the world, before subsiding in the late 1990s.

These took the place of hundreds found in most other English counties, and originated in military subdivisions organised for the defence of the county from incursions by Scottish troops.

One of the oldest organised systems of medicine is known from the Indian subcontinent in the form of Ayurveda which originated around 1500 BCE from Atharvaveda ( one of the four most ancient books of Indian knowledge, wisdom and culture ).

Little information is known about the origins of cnapan, due to the age of the game, but it seems to have originated sometime in the Middle Ages as a form of " organised chaos ", to relieve the back-breaking monotonous work of daily life.

Christadelphians are organised into local congregations, that commonly call themselves ecclesias, which is taken from usage in the New Testament and is Greek for gathering of those summoned.

Thomas arrived in New York on 20 October 1953 to undertake another tour of poetry reading and talks, organised by Brinnin.

However, they shared a distrust of organised religion, and, after witnessing the critically acclaimed Holy Grails enormous financial turnover, confirming an appetite among the fans for more cinematic endeavours, they soon began to seriously consider a film lampooning the New Testament era in the same way Holy Grail had lampooned Arthurian legend.

Returning to the United States, McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on September 5, 1882 in New York City, USA.

When the French revolution created strong nation states, the criminal gangs moved to other poorly controlled regions like the Balkans and Southern Italy, where the seeds were sown for the Sicilian Mafia-the lynchpin of organised crime in the New World.

The first officially-organised Chinese festival was the Chinese New Year's Eve Festival of February 2005 which took place in Nichita Stănescu Park and was organised by the Bucharest City Hall.

To secure the British copyright, there was a perfunctory performance the afternoon before the New York premiere, at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, Devon, organised by Helen Lenoir.

On Saturday, 22 June, with his troops now organised into their respective commands, Bruce moved his army slightly to the north to the New Park, a more heavily wooded area, where his movements could be concealed and which, if the occasion demanded, could provide cover for a withdrawal.

The Archimedes won significant market share in the education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ; the success of the Archimedes in British schools was due partly to its predecessor the BBC Micro and later to the Computers for Schools scheme organised by the Tesco supermarket chain in association with Acorn, and most students and pupils in these countries in the early 90s were exposed to an Archimedes or A-series computer.

New designs were used for the bosses, five of which were designed by winners of a competition organised by the BBC's Blue Peter television programme.

In foreign matters, Louis organised the development and administration of New France, expanding its settlements westward along the Saint Lawrence River from Quebec City to Montreal.

200 native Fijians were recruited and organised by 44 New Zealanders.

Actes du Colloque international de Paris ( 28 septembre-1 octobre 1985 ) / organised by the Centre de recherche sur les œuvres et la pensée de Simplicius ‪(‬ RCP 739-CNRS ‪)‬, Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1987, X-406 p. ISBN 3-11-010924-7

John Ballance ( 27 March 1839 – 27 April 1893 ) served as the 14th Premier of New Zealand at the end of the 19th century, and was the founder of the Liberal Party ( the country's first organised political party ).

After the Vorticists ' only U. K. exhibition in 1915, the movement broke up, largely as a result of World War I, though Lewis's patron, John Quinn, organised a Vorticist exhibition at the Penguin Club in New York in 1917.

success is attested by the fact that the more respectable of the brokers, who had already organised the beginnings of the present Stock Exchange at New Jonathan ’ s Coffee House, admitted him to their body, and afterwards elected him a member of their Committee for General Purposes.

Whilst there he organised an early Fluxus concert, A Little Festival of New Music, 6 July 1963.

Paul organised the first national mountain bike race in New Zealand in 1986-the Karapoti Classic.

At the time, the British government recognised the sovereignty of the Māori people, as represented in the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand of October 1835, which had been organised by Busby.

The Concert for Bangladesh ( or Bangla Desh, as the country name was spelled originally ) was the name for two benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, playing to a total of 40, 000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

* 9 – 14 October — New York Giants ( NL ) defeats Philadelphia Athletics ( AL ) by 4 games to 1 in the 1905 World Series, which is the first organised by the modern National and American Leagues.

Lord Sudeley and Gregory Lauder-Frost represented the League ( at their own expense ) at a major fund-raising Dinner in New York City on 15 June 1990, which had been organised by New York member David Evans, and the Reverend ( now Canon ) Dr. Kenneth Gunn-Walberg.