There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

From the New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.

He was instrumental in bringing the Contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

This became the founding text of the subsequent tradition known as " hypno-analysis " or " regression hypnotherapy.

" In 1844, his The Ego and Its Own ( Der Einzige and sein Eigentum which may literally be translated as The Unique Individual and His Property ) was published, which is considered to be " a founding text in the tradition of individualist anarchism.

The most likely scenario, based on Mandinka oral tradition, suggests that the origins of the Kora may ultimately be linked with Jali Mady Fouling Cissoko, some time after the founding of Kaabu in the 16th century.

As followers of the sun, the Tartar are connected to a tradition that describes Cain as founding a city of sun worshippers and that people in Asia would build gardens in remembrance of the lost Eden.

Hobbes's philosophy includes a frontal assault on the founding principles of the earlier natural legal tradition, disregarding the traditional association of virtue with happiness, and likewise re-defining " law " to remove any notion of the promotion of the common good.

The more cosmopolitan has been the ascending political culture since the founding of the Al Said dynasty in 1744, although the imamate tradition has found intermittent expression.

Roman myth attempted to reconcile two different founding myths: three hundred years later, in the more famous tradition, Romulus and Remus founded Rome.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games is ' Rack and Ruin ' a reminder of the tradition of the founding Victoria College.

The association between the Quaker tradition and vegetarianism, however, becomes most significant with the founding of the Friends ' Vegetarian Society in 1902 " to spread a kindlier way of living amongst the Society of Friends.

While there are no historical records that deal directly with the founding of Venice, tradition and the available evidence have led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees from Roman cities near Venice such as Padua, Aquileia, Treviso, Altino and Concordia ( modern Portogruaro ) and from the undefended countryside, who were fleeing successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions.

The name of Bucureşti has an uncertain origin: tradition connects the founding of Bucharest with the name of Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter, according to different legends.

The Melting Pot tradition co-exists with a belief in national unity, dating from the American founding fathers:

In some non-canonical works like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Articles of the Federation, the Federation's founding document is called the " Articles Of Federation ," which has been popular fan tradition.

Thammasat University adopts this term for this position to reflect its tradition associated with the French education system where Pridi Banomyong, Thammasat's founding father was educated.

A revival of the ascetic tradition came in the second half of the century, with the culdee or " clients ( vassals ) of God " movement founding new monasteries detached from family groupings.

Juniata College has a tradition of campus-wide events dating back to its founding days.

The Air Force Academy continued the tradition, beginning with the first class, 1959, and so is the only service academy to have had class rings for every class since its founding.

( Some historians do not believe this to be a Tuoba traditional custom, but believed it to be a tradition instititued by the founding emperor Emperor Daowu based on Emperor Wu of Han's execution of his favorite concubine Consort Zhao, the mother of his youngest son Liu Fuling ( the eventual Emperor Zhao ), before naming Prince Fuling crown prince.

The oldest tradition of its founding ascribes to Evander the erection of the Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum Boarium.

However, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was put together in the late ninth century ; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four hundred years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.

Procas or Proca was one of the Latin kings of Alba Longa in the mythic tradition of the founding of Rome.

He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation.

During 1956, an IAEA Statute Conference was held to draft the founding documents for the IAEA, and the IAEA Statute was completed at a conference in 1957.

The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872.

As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club's first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904.

Here he took part in founding Jena University ( 1548 ); opposed the " Augsburg Interim " ( 1548 ); superintended the publication of the Jena edition of Luther's works ; and debated on the freedom of the will, original sin, and, more noticeably, on the Christian value of good works, in regard to which he held that they were not only useless, but prejudicial.

There are some that believe the Thelemic New Year falls on either 19, 20 or 21 March, depending on the vernal equinox, this is The Feast for the Equinox of the Gods which is held on the vernal equinox of each year to commemorate the founding of Thelema in 1904.

* Communal readings of The Decline of the West held great influence over the founding members of the Beat Generation.

The 350th Anniversary of the founding of Rhode Island was celebrated with a free concert held on the tarmac of the Quonset State Airport on August 31, 1986.

The final two days of the main event in 2005 were held downtown at what is now the MTR-operated " Binion's " in celebration of the centennial of the founding of Las Vegas.

At the time of the state establishment in 1947, the founding fathers of Pakistan were presented in the West where the founding fathers held a Boundary Commission conference with Cyril Radcliffe where the arrangement, area division, and future political set up was negotiated.

For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.

In the party's history, only two congresses were held ; the founding congress in 1965 and the Second Congress in June 1990, which transformed the PDPA into the Watan Party, which has survived to this today in the shape of the Democratic Watan Party.

The National Fatherland Front ( NFF ) held its founding congress in June 1981, after being postponed on several occasions.

At the beginning of the dynasty, government posts were disproportionately held by two elite social groups: a founding elite who had ties with the founding emperor and a semi-hereditary professional elite who used long-held clan status, family connections and marriage alliances to secure appointments.

The event, held on 10 November 2007, was part of the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the moshav.

At a press conference held in Chicago, Davidson announced his core of investors, a group of men he called the " founding fathers ".

Thirty delegates attended a founding conference, held in September 1938, in the home of Alfred Rosmer just outside Paris.

Newport Country Club was one of the five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association ; it hosted the first U. S. Open and the first U. S. Amateur, both held in 1895.

In 1907, the Jamestown Exposition was held to mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown in 1607.

" Herri Batasuna's founding convention was held in Lekeitio, home of Santiago Brouard who was then the leader of HASI ( Herriko Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea or Revolutionary Socialist People's Party ).

In 1971, an international meeting of Romany people was held at Orpington, this Orpington Congress marked the founding of the International Romani Union, a group seeking political representation for Romanis throughout Europe.

Pikes Peak Council served as host to the 1960 National Scout Jamboree, held north of Colorado Springs adjacent to the United States Air Force Academy, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America.

Later, the founding of Williams Air Force Base in 1941 led to a small surge in population, but Chandler still only held 3, 800 people by 1950.