Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

In the absence of a reservoir of political consensus each organized political group hopes that the elections will give them new prominence, but in a system where there is as yet no place for the less prominent.

How altruism is framed, organized, carried out, and what motivates it at the group level is an area of focus that sociologists seek to investigate in order to contribute back to the groups it studies and " build the good society ".

The typical organized ride starts with a large group of riders, called the mass, bunch or even peloton.

In turn, lawyers and judges who operated the king's system of justice in a society strictly organized into groups would not question the right of a group to sue or be sued because to do so would bring into question the entire group-oriented society in which they operated.

Largely financed, trained, equipped, armed and organized by the U. S., it emerged as the largest and most active contra group.

The Children of God was among the movements prompting the cult controversy of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Europe and triggered the first organized anticult group FREECOG.

For example, an all-male troop may be organized to hunt for meat, while a group consisting of lactating females serves to act as a " nursery group " for the young.

Although Dada itself was unknown in Georgia until at least 1920, from 1917-1921 a group of poets called themselves " 41st Degree " ( referring both to the latitude of Tbilisi, Georgia and to the temperature of a high fever ) organized along Dadaist lines.

* Never Again — international genocide prevention group ; organized 2004 Rwanda Forum at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Corporate cooperation against environmental lobbyists has been organized by the Wise Use group.

This exposé of organized crime is set in New York's " Little Italy " during the late 19th century, and focuses on the Black Hand, a group which extorts money upon threat of death.

Researcher Vanessa Timmer has referred the early members as " an unlikely group of loosely organized protestors ".

In addition to his cosmological writings, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles.

After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex-president Policarpo Bonilla, a liberal rival, for two years and made other attempts to suppress liberals throughout the country, as they were the only group in the country with an organized political party.

" William Dever sees this " Israel " in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state.

On February 15, 1805, the group of approximately 400 followers formally organized the Harmony Society, placing all their goods in common.

While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

The original JPEG group was organized in 1986, issuing the first JPEG standard in 1992, which was approved in September 1992 as ITU-T Recommendation T. 81 and in 1994 as ISO / IEC 10918-1.

Also popular among the international performing arts community in Europe, a group of Finnish producers organized an international karaoke competition called KWC ( Karaoke World Championships ).

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

A man in the neighborhood, angered by the actions, organized a rap group to keep the neighborhood kids out of trouble.

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

The improvement was most noticeable in the greater consistency among reaction cells prepared as a group on the same manifold.

There is an oral tradition among the members of the population in regard to the origin and subsequent separate status of the group in the larger society.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

* Ása, genitive of Æsir, the predominant group among the Norse gods

He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

The presence of alveoli and other traits place the Apicomplexa among a group called the alveolates.

A group chosen to be on the BOCA album earns much credibility among the a cappella community.

Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.

In the Triassic period some groups of archosaurs ( a group that includes the ancestors of crocodiles ) developed bipedalism ; among their descendants the dinosaurs, all the early forms and many later groups were habitual or exclusive bipeds ; the birds descended from one group of exclusively bipedal dinosaurs.

In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

However, it is now recognized that the Fissipedia is a paraphyletic group and that the pinnipeds were not the sister group to the fissipeds but rather had arisen from among them.

Their social organization is unique among primates and is called a " cooperative polyandrous group ".

As the same game is played repeatedly among a group of players, precedents build up about how a particular infraction of the rules should be handled.

Typically, the anthropologist lives among people in another society for a period of time, simultaneously participating in and observing the social and cultural life of the group.

He says that Wall Street traders are among the most conspiracy-minded group of people, and ascribes this to the reality of some financial market conspiracies, and to the ability of conspiracy theories to provide necessary orientation in the market ’ s day-to-day movements.

The dictyostelids are another group formerly classified among the fungi.

Celery is among a small group of foods ( headed by peanuts ) that appear to provoke the most severe allergic reactions ; for people with celery allergy, exposure can cause potentially fatal anaphylactic shock.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

The dominant male in each group is significantly heavier than any of the subordinates, but among subordinates, status is not correlated with weight.

The Maeshowe group, named after the famous Orkney monument, is among the most elaborate.

A second group, headed by Chief Justice Edward D. White and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stood for " reasonable " market regulation, managed either by private agreements among producers ( long permitted under common law ) or by public administrative agencies.