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The Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas (FORBS) is a professional 501(c)(7) fraternity for American men who perform as Santa Claus. Members must grow and maintain their own facial hair for that purpose, and agree to promote a positive image of Santa.
Industrial Order of America – a short-lived Boston-based fraternal order. [168] International Fraternal Alliance of Baltimore – founders included Masons, Oddfellows, Red Men and Pythians. Membership is open to men and women. There were 10,000 members in 30 states and Canada in the late 1890s. The orders ritual showed signs of Masonic ...
The ceremony of the order was calculated to inculcate the values of harmony, wisdom, and justice. The order's emblem was an "interlaced triangle" with a representation of Abraham about to sacrifice Jacob. The order offered sickness and death insurance, assuring its members would be buried by Jewish law and become good American citizens. [94]
There have been a number of interlocking fraternal orders known as the beavers. The Fraternal Order of Beavers was created in 1911. The relationships between these and the Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity, Beavers National Mutual Benefit and the National Mutual Benefit is complex. [1] The North American Order of the Beaver was founded in 1990.
A fraternal order is a voluntary membership group organised as an order, with an initiation ritual and traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, serving as social clubs, cultural organizations and providing a form of social welfare through ...
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members.
Order of Chosen Friends; Order of Daedalians; Order of Druids; Order of Free Gardeners; Order of Heptasophs; Order of Knight-Masons Elect Priests of the Universe; Order of Owls; Order of Railway Conductors; Order of Saint Joachim; Order of the Founders and Patriots of America; Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross; Order of the Indian Wars of the ...
F. T. Begue Clavel; F. W. Butt-Thompson; Federation of Masons of the World; Fifth Order of Melchizedek and Egyptian Sphinx; Filadelfi; Fils d'Adam; First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association; First Catholic Slovak Union of the United States of America and Canada; Francis Bacon; Fraternal Monitor; Fraternal Order of Bears or Bears, Fraternal Order ...