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John looks forward with nervous excitement to the annual Orange order march in Glasgow, in which he will lead his local Orange Lodge band as mace-swinger.However, as the day progresses he begins to become disillusioned with the day and his colleagues, as he witnesses their growing drunkenness and unwarranted violence against Catholic homes on the march's route.
The Orange Order's name stems from the Orange Associations, a name that recognized the landing of William of Orange in England and the start of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. [105] Its flag, known as the Boyne Standard and Orange Standard , has a field of orange with a purple star and a St. George's Cross in the upper left corner. [ 106 ]
Oleona, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community "Oleanna" (song), a folk song mocking Ole Bull's ambitions of a perfect community; Oleanna, a play named after the folk song, written by David Mamet Oleanna, a film based on Mamet's play, directed by the author and starring William H. Macy
James Wilson was the founder of the Orange Institution, also known as the Orange Order.. After a disturbance in Benburb on 24 June 1794, in which Protestant homes were attacked, Wilson appealed to the Freemasons, of which he was a member, [1] to organise themselves in defence of the Protestant population.
(WHTM) – Two of the most storied programs in college football will meet in the Orange Bowl for a chance to play in the National Championship Game. The Penn State Nittany Lions and Notre Dame ...
Tamiment, first known as Camp Tamiment, was an American resort located in the Pocono Mountains of Pike County, Pennsylvania, which existed from 1921 through 2005. Originally established by the Rand School of Social Science in New York City as a Socialist camp and summer school, Tamiment developed into a regular resort and later fell under ...
Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague.One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture, it includes a traditional barn raising and an old-fashioned country wedding.
From 1947 to 1978, the Orange Bowl served as the site of the Orange Blossom Classic, a de facto national championship for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) recently revived in 2021.