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The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin.
The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide.
GEM & GEX Membership Department Stores (required membership like a warehouse club) [citation needed] Gemco, 1959–1986, owned by Lucky Stores; HomeClub, a home improvement warehouse, later became HomeBase and then folded in 2000; Max-Club, owned by SuperValu (United States) PACE Membership Warehouse, owned by Kmart, merged with Sam's Club
By 2018, twenty-four members had visited every place on the list. John Clouse, from Evansville, Indiana, was the first to travel to all of the organization's listed countries and was recognized by the 1995 Guinness World Records as "the world's most traveled man" taking the title from another TCC Club member Parke G. Thompson.
Knights of Pythias membership certificate, 1890 [a] Knights of Pythias in a parade in Toledo, Ohio, 1890s Knights of Pythias in a parade in Racine, Wisconsin, 1910. The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1864.
Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
Born 1892, at the time he was the youngest pilot to have been awarded the Aviator's Certificate. He was a founding member of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, formed 1910, and stayed with the company under its various names until his death following surgery in 1947, at which time he was assistant managing director of the Bristol ...
The 100 MPH Club certificate awarded to Louis Durant, currently on display in the office of Indianapolis Motor Speedway president J. Douglas Boles. The Champion Spark Plug 100 Mile an Hour Club was a group formed to honor drivers who completed the Indianapolis 500 at an average speed of 100 miles per hour or faster.