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To counteract this and show the Buffaloes were not subversive to the interests of the state, the Order described itself as the "Loyal Order of Buffaloes". The addition of "antediluvian" (meaning before the time of the flood in the Bible and referring to the Order's principles) [16] occurred in the 1850s. Hence the honorifics of "royal" and ...
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 ...
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks building in downtown Ouray, Colorado The Elks was established by actor Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian in New York City on February 16, 1868. [ 2 ] Vivian was a British expatriate and member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes . [ 2 ]
By the end of the 20th century, most fraternities had been wound up except for the Freemasons and a few lodges of the Buffaloes. Many fraternities also offered insurance to their members and as membership declined, these operations were either combined with other non profit insurance companies or sold with the proceeds being distributed to ...
The only link to "Buffs" seems to come in a context that suggests that they are using it as a synonym for "aficionado." Maybe we could fix this redirect to something like "Buffs(order)" so there's no confusion and that article has a proper red link (since that article references an etymological origin and thus can't be satisfied by changing the link to "enthusiast" or "aficionado" even if ...
Noah prepares to leave the antediluvian world, Jacopo Bassano and assistants, 1579. In the Christian Bible, Hebrew Torah and Islamic Quran, the antediluvian period begins with the Fall of the first man and woman, according to Genesis and ends with the destruction of all life on the earth except those saved with Noah in the ark (Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives).
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The title "Grand Poobah" was used recurrently on the television show The Flintstones as the name of a high-ranking elected position in a secret society, the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Similarly, Howard Cunningham, a character on the TV series Happy Days , was a Grand Poobah of Leopard Lodge No. 462 in Milwaukee. [ 4 ]