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	Men Behind the Masque - Structure of borough government
		Tait hypothesised an earlier council, on the grounds that the reform ordinances were made "by all the commonalty and by the more worthy sworn men of the town."[89] This is slim proof of a permanent council, especially given the sparsity of earlier evidence for groups that might be candidates for a conciliar body.
		Although its inception is generally accredited to the tripartite indenture of 1420 theoretically dictated by the Bishop, in fact the council had been in existence since at least the 1418 elections, probably the result of a less formal accord of c.1417.
		A lower council of 48 to represent the community-at-large in the wake of a diminution of control over the original council; this was part of the constitutional readjustment in 1426, already mentioned.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/mc1_pt3.html (2708 words)

	Council Sketches
		The Council was honored in having its Chaplain, Rev. John F. McManus, serve as National Chaplain of the American Legion for the 1943-44 term.
		The highlight of the Council's history was the celebration of its silver jubilee on the 10th of June, 1945.
		The Council rented clubrooms until the basement of the parish church was completed in 1945 and prepared for the use of the Council.
	www.kansas-kofc.org /history/csketch4.html (7586 words)

	Washington Council - These Men They Call Knights
		The state councils are made up of the state deputy, who is the representative of the supreme knight in each state, and other state officers, the last living past state deputy, the grand knight and a past grand knight from each subordinate council.
		Twelve scholarships are for use at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; with preference being given on two of those twelve to Columbian Squires; the remaining scholarships may be used at a Catholic college of the recipient's choice with Columbian Squires receiving preference on two of those fifty.
		Twelve merit scholarships paying $1,500-a-year at Canadian colleges or universities are awarded annually to the members of Canadian councils or the sons and daughters of living or deceased members.
	kofc1456.homestead.com /thesemen.html (11178 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Trent
		Its main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants; a further object was the execution of a thorough reform of the inner life of the Church by removing the numerous abuses that had developed in it.
		The majority of the cardinals, however, opposed the immediate calling of a council, and it was resolved to notify the princes of the papal decision to hold a church assembly.
		Therefore, on 13 September, he proclaimed the suspension of the council and commanded the cardinal legate del Monte to dismiss the members of the council assembled at Bologna; this was done on 17 September.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15030c.htm (5851 words)

	II. The Dutch Town under the First Three Directors. 1626-1647.. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York
		He appointed as council but one man, a Huguenot of good repute, named La Montagne, and then, to prevent all danger of a tie, decreed that La Montagne should have but one vote and he himself two.
		The Council of Twelve at once proceeded to protest against the director's arbitrary powers, and to demand increased rights for the people, and a larger measure of self-government.
		Instantly Kieft dissolved them; but later on, when the settlement seemed at the last gasp, a council of eight was chosen, this time by popular vote, and took advantage of the dread of the public enemy to demand the needed internal reforms.
	www.bartleby.com /171/2.html (3062 words)

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		Lubbertus Van Dincklagen, his sheriff, and one of the most learned men in the colony, spoke contemptuously of him to his face, when the governor, unfortunately for himself, summoned courage sufficient to resent it, and sent the offender to Holland in disgrace, without paying him three years' salary which was due him.
		The Twelve counselled peace, and proceeded to consider the propriety of establishing in New Netherland a government similar to that of the Fatherland.
		The Council of Eight possessed no legal executive power, and their plans for a pacification of the Indians were often frustrated by the faithless Kieft.
	www.angelfire.com /ca6/minuteman/chapter026.htm (4713 words)

	Twelve Apostles (Traveling High Council)
		The twelve traveling councilors are called to be the Twelve Apostles, or special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world—thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling.
		At a conference of the Presidency, the Twelve a part of the Seventy, and some other Elders, Joseph instructs the Twelve that the oldest is to preside, "beginning at the oldest and so on until the youngest has presided and then beginning at the oldest again.
		There is a distinction between the high council or traveling high priests abroad, and the traveling high council composed of the twelve apostles, in their decisions.
	www.saintswithouthalos.com /n/twelve.phtml (651 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Twelve Angry Men
		The men are conspicuously variant and characterized into types, which is all right, since, looking through such clear-cut personalities, it is easier to see what is common in all the men.
		Twelve Angry Men is primarily a dramatic case-study of the interactions in a group of men making a grave decision; the subtlety of contact and influence back and forth among them, the actions proceeding out of their affected personalities despite themselves, make the film fascinating to watch.
		The lever on which the study is poised happens to be Justice, and there are a few soggy lines about how wonderful it is to have juries, but the errant enjoyed simply on the merits of the actors and their direction.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=132578 (606 words)

	High Council (Mormonism): Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This High Council took on the role of chief judicial and legislative body of the local church and handled such things as excommunication trials and approval of all church spending.
		Later, as the Traveling High Council evolved and began to be known as the Quorum of the Twelve (Quorum of the Twelve: in mormonism, the quorum of the twelve apostles (also known as the quorum of the twelve,...
		When the High Council of Zion was dissolved after the Church was expelled from Missouri, the High Council organized at the new church headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois (Nauvoo, Illinois: more facts about this subject) functioned as the Presiding High Council of the church, overseeing appeals from high councils in outlying stakes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/high_council_mormonism (639 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Ephesus
		One might have presumed that Pope Celestine, in approving of the council, intended that Nestorius should have a full trial, and in fact this was declared in his letter which was still on the way.
		These two were deposed by forty-three bishops present; the members of the council were to be forgiven, provided they would condemn the twelve anathematisms of Cyril.
		But in spite of all the exertions of the Antiochan party, the representatives of the envoys whom the council was eventually allowed to send, with the legate Philip, to the Court, persuaded the emperor to accept the great council as the true one.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05491a.htm (3020 words)

	Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 1
		These seven men who were incarnated again in the thirteenth century, and who were part of the council of twelve, were just those who could look back into the seven streams of the ancient Atlantean cultural epoch of mankind and the further course of these streams.
		These twelve men, who represented the sum of all the spiritual knowledge of their age and the twelve tendencies of thought, came together in a place in Europe that cannot as yet be named.
		The twelve could recognise that he had experienced the event of Damascus: it was a repetition of the vision of Paul on the road to Damascus.
	wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/19110927p01.html (3870 words)

	civilrights.org -- U.N. Council Imposes Sanctions on 4 Men in Darfur War Crimes
		The Security Council passed a resolution on Tuesday imposing the first sanctions in the violence that has killed more than 200,000 villagers and driven two million people from their homes in Darfur, in western Sudan.
		Twelve members of the 15-nation Council voted in favor of the American-drafted measure, which will freeze the assets of four Sudanese accused of war crimes and instructs nations to block their entry.
		China and Russia, each a permanent member that could have vetoed the proposal, said the timing was wrong, coming just days before a Sunday deadline set by the Council for Sudan and the Darfur rebels to reach an agreement to end their conflict.
	www.civilrights.org /library/detail.cfm?id=42593 (212 words)

	AskWhy! on the Sermon on the Mount and the Renewal of the Covenant - Christianity Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There shall be in the council of the community twelve men, and there shall be three priests who are perfect in all that has been revealed of the whole law.
		The men of perfect holiness in the desert will have attracted lay support from quite early in their existence and it is possible that pious converts of the simple of Ephraim—Jews who had been led astray by the smooth things of the Pharisees—became village Essenes.
		The council of the community was the foundation of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /christianity/0410SermonRenewal.html (5733 words)

	Mormon Literature Sampler: The First Year in the Valley
		A large group was then assigned to build log cabins and a wall around the fort: "Sixty to hoke, twelve to mould and twenty to put up walls."25 Within a month, twenty-nine log houses had been built in the fort, each eight or nine feet high, sixteen feet long, and fourteen feet wide.
		These men were to be appointed by the members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, with the approval of the congregation.
		Men and women alike fought the crickets with sticks, shovels, and brooms, with gunny sacks and trenches, but with little avail.
	humanities.byu.edu /mldb/arringtn.htm (2439 words)

	Unum Omnes - International Council of Catholic Men: News
		The Pope then highlighted the fact that "work is of primary importance for the fulfillment of mankind and the development of society, and for this reason it must always be organized and carried out in full respect of human dignity and at the service of the common good.
		Promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), the event aims to reflect upon the experience of ecclesial movements and new communities in the formation of lay people at the service of the evangelization of culture and social solidarity.
		The main subject of the meeting was "the social task of men in a globalized world" and was illuminated by four main lectures, which from different points of view, collaborated to give to the subject the depth that was tried.
	www.unum-omnes.com /news.php (2770 words)

	Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology
		These twelve tributary kings were exceedingly wise men; they received the honour of gods, and from them all European chiefs are descended.
		He was a very handsome man, his hair shone fairer than gold, and at the age of twelve he was full-grown, and so strong that he could lift twelve bear-skins at the same time.
		One reason why people everywhere gave Odin so hearty a welcome and offered him land and power was that wherever Odin and his men tarried on their journey the people got good harvests and abundant crops, and therefore they believed that Odin and his men controlled the weather amid the growing grain.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/rydberg/007.php (2942 words)

	Franciscan University of Steubenville - "Twelve Great Men of Service" Honored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 12 men embarked on vastly different careers and vocations—from law enforcement and the priesthood to maintenance and teaching—but all shared the common characteristic of "dedicating themselves to the betterment of society in the Ohio Valley," according to Father Richard Davis, TOR, vice president of Community Relations.
		Before presenting the awards, University President Father Terence Henry, TOR, drew on the wisdom of the late Pope John Paul II, who said there are two types of love: Love of self which ignores one's neighbor, and love of God, which leads one to neglect self and help one's neighbor.
		A member of the Steubenville City Council since 1982, Mucci was first elected mayor of the city in 1993.
	www.franciscan.edu /Home2/Content/main.aspx?id=1836 (1503 words)

	The Twelve Apostles in Mormonism—Part Two
		These twelve men are endowed with the power and responsibility to serve as the special witnesses for Christ" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol.
		These LDS leaders claim there are only "twelve" men who make up the Council or Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who minister in all parts of the world.
		The Twelve Apostles, like the President of the LDS Church hold their offices until they die, unless they are called into the First Presidency.
	www.johnankerberg.org /Articles/apologetics/AP1299W3.htm (1436 words)

	The Council of Twelve - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy. The Historical Alternative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Council of Twelve - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy.
		The Rosicrucians, for example, were directed by a council of twelve, of whom six were known and six remain unknown.
		Thus the whole World Government would rest upon the ultimate guidance and influence of the Spiritual Cabinet… [based on] the Twelve Labours of Hercules, The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and Christ and His Twelve Disciples.
	www.historicist.com /necromancers/councilof12.htm (281 words)

	Holy Rosary Church Knights of Columbus - Council 11841 These Men They Call Knights Information Page
		Published by the Supreme Council and originally provided online by Council 10232, it provides a fine overview of and introduction to the Order.
		Entitles participation in all Catholic, fratenal and social activities in member's council and also in the 10,400 councils throughout the world.
		Participate in annual council, state and international golf, bowling and softball tournaments; many councils sponsor teams in a variety of sports.
	www.srv.net /~hlyrsry/knightsofcolumbus/knights.html (11410 words)

	River Canyon Retreat: Men of Heart Fall Equinox Council Wilderness Retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is an invitation to join a powerful council of men on a 4-day retreat in a beautiful wilderness setting along the Yuba River.
		Men’s stereotypical roles as leaders, providers, warriors, husbands, mates, fathers, and sons often over shadow our neglected roles as spiritual seekers, shamanic healers, tricksters, minstrels, lovers, and poets.
		During our time together as a tribe of men, we will invoke the powers of the “initiated masculine” archetype, creating an opening for it to birth into our psyches.
	www.rivercanyonretreat.com /menofheart.html (382 words)

	Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
		Spiritual measures of a very definite kind were necessary in the thirteenth century to enable the influence connected with this name to become part of the spiritual life of the modern age.
		At the time when the spiritual world was entirely shut off from human vision, a council of twelve wise men came together.
		The council of the twelve wise men took this child into their care soon after he was born; shut off from the outside, exoteric world, he came under no influence save theirs; they cared for all his bodily needs and were also his teachers.
	wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/EsoChristian/19111120p01.html (2035 words)

	IAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sister Ignatia said, 'Doctor, we do not have any beds, much less private rooms'...[but] then into the hospital's flower room she slyly bootlegged A.A.'s first jittering candidate for admission...From 1939 to the time Dr.Bob took leave of us in 1950, over 5,000 had thus been treated.
		And he said to one of the four men, "This is one of the most beautiful things that has come into the world.
		But I want to warn you that the devil will try to destroy it." Of course, it's true, and one of the first things that the devil could have used was having money, and having sanatoriums as the men were planning.
	www.iac-aa.org (2523 words)

	Twelve Angry Men breaks box office records - State of the Arts
		Twelve Angry Men is a beautifully written and taut drama, and this production is acted superbly by a stellar cast of Australian acting talent including Marcus Graham, Henri Szeps, Shane Bourne, Aaron Blabey, Russell Fletcher, Peter Flett, George Kapiniaris, Rob Meldrum, Alex Menglet, Nichola s Papademetriou, Peter Phelps, Richard Piper and Henri Szeps.
		The Australia Council for the Arts will spend an extra $3 million to support Indigenous arts across Australia and overseas.
		SPARK is the Australia Council’s national mentoring program for young artists.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news?fid=3034 (464 words)

	Twelve Men That Changed the World
		And he ordained twelve, that they Should be with him, and that he might Send them forth to preach (Mark 3:13).
		Suddenly the Lord called out to the men who were dripping with water while laboring over their nets.
		It was Peter who was falsely accused by the Rulers of the People and the Elders of the Council of Israel; and it was Peter who gave a defense of Christ.
	www.geocities.com /lovethe_lord/sm12.htm (3504 words)

	Track Teams Set To Compete At The Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships :: The men's and women's teams will head ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The men's and women's teams will head to Lincoln, Neb. to start competition on Friday.
		Leading off for the men will be middle distance runner Rotich who has made a strong impact on the team since returning from a hamstring injury.
		The action will conclude Friday night with the men's distance medley relay with an estimated start time of 9 p.m.
	cyclones.cstv.com /sports/c-track/spec-rel/022206aaa.html (1227 words)

	New Paltz harbored the oppressed
		In 1738 the New Paltz townsmen elected a council of ‘‘Twelve Men,’’ who held the responsibility for surveying and subdividing the land within the patent, and for defending its boundaries in the local courts.
		The Twelve Men, often referred to as the ‘‘Duzine’’ in local histories, managed the patent until the early 19th century, when the responsibility fell to the town government after the town’s official incorporation into the state of New York.
		Today, descendants of the Huguenot families remain active in the affairs of Huguenot Street and, under the direction of the Huguenot Historical Society, bear the responsibility for preserving and maintaining the New Paltz Historic District.
	cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/Heritage/stories/he_new_paltz.asp (673 words)

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