Folkmoot USA, The State International Festival of North Carolina , is an international folk festival held since 1984 in Waynesville, North Carolina and surrounding communities. During its history, the two ... Society has named Folkmoot USA one of its top twenty events for 20 years. The Folkmoot USA non profit organization has its headquarters in the former Hazelwood Elementary School. The name Folkmoot , used ... ref name festival cite web url http www.folkmootusa.org title Folkmoot USA The State International Festival of North Carolina accessdate 2010 06 17 ref In its 20th year, Folkmoot USA attracted 350 ... issues 07 03 07 16 03 moot 20th year.html title Folkmoot USA celebrates 20th year in Western NC work ... to the economy at 4 million. The North Carolina General Assembly declared Folkmoot USA to be the state ... might represent holiday s, battle s, or occupation s. Folkmoot USA strives to make sure as many countries ... to WNC last Sniatecki first Ryan work Mountain XPress date 2002 07 17 accessdate 2010 06 17 ref Folkmoot ... , or CIOFF, based in Paris . Most groups that perform for Folkmoot USA have some connection to CIOFF .... ref name Beadle Meaning of the name In Anglo Saxon England , a folkmoot or folkmote Old English ... needed date July 2010 History Folkmoot USA began with a visit by Waynesville surgeon Dr. Clinton ..., a board of directors began work on the first Folkmoot USA. The first event took place in 1984, the same ... web url http www.romanticasheville.com folkmoot.htm title Folkmoot USA International Festival accessdate ..., Folkmoot USA. In 2002, the Folkmoot Friendship Center opened in the former Hazelwood Elementary School ... to have been inspired by Folkmoot USA. In 2007, Folkmoot USA executive director Jamye Cooper helped ... images2009 Folkmoot 20Festival 202009.pdf title Folkmoot Festival 2009 accessdate 2010 06 ... folkmoot waynesville nc.htm Photo gallery from 2005 event Category Folk festivals in the United States Folkmoot ... more details
wiktionarypar moot moot point There are a number of articles with Moot in the title from Moot as an Old English language Anglo Saxon term for meeting Folkmoot Jamtam t , the old assembly of J mtland Witenagemot , the High Council of Anglo Saxon England Moot hall or Moot hill , a meeting or assembly place, traditionally to decide local issues World Scout Moot , a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18 26 from all over the world Entmoot , a gathering of Ents in The Lord of the Rings Moodle Moot, a gathering or conference relating to the Moodle Learning Management System Moot court , an activity in many law schools where participants take part in simulated court proceedings Mootness , a legal concept of not actionable . 4chan moot moot , nickname of Christopher Poole, founder of the website 4chan disambig ... more details
Margret RoadKnight born in Melbourne in July 1943 is an Australian singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has sung in a wide variety of styles including blues, jazz, gospel, and folk. In the 1960s and 1970s RoadKnight appeared on numerous television programmes including Folkmoot TV series Folkmoot , hosted by Leonard Teale . In 1976 she released the single Girls in Our Town , which reached the Top 40. ref cite web url http www.pbsfm.org.au Documents.asp?Action Playlist&ID 5336&Title Callin All Cats&PlaylistID 3702 title PBS 106.7FM Real Radio Callin All Cats accessdate 2007 11 17 format work Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref External links cite web url http www.musicaustralia.org apps MA?function showDetail¤tMapsRecord ANL MA 660344&itemSeq 1&total 21&&returnFunction viewTheme&&sessionId title Music Australia RoadKnight accessdate 2007 11 17 format work cite web url http members.iinet.net.au margretr intro.htm title Margret RoadKnight official site accessdate 2007 10 04 work References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Roadknight, Margret ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Roadknight, Margret Category 1943 births Category Living people Category Australian female singers Category Australian folk singers Australia musician stub ... more details
Politics of Libya The Basic Peoples Congress or Fundamental Popular Council is the smallest unit of government in Libya . It usually governs the equivalent of a municipality, and that geographic subdivision is also called a Basic People s Congress country subdivision Basic Peoples Congress . ref Vandewalle, Dirk J. 1998 Libya since independence oil and state building I B Tauris, London, pp. 95 97, ISBN 1 86064 264 0 ref The congress consists of every man and woman who has attained the age of majority. The actual congress meets at three scheduled meetings per year or is called upon necessity. The first meeting is usually devoted to a detailed agenda for the next two meetings. At the second meeting the Basic People s Congress discusses issues relating to the local business, while at the third meeting seats on committees are filled, representatives elected and policy at the national and international level are discussed. Day to day management and oversight is provided by the people s committee appointed by the congress. The next political level up are the Districts of Libya district congresses and then above that is the General Peoples Congress at the top. Notes references Compare Folkmoot Category Government of Libya gov stub ar de Basisvolkskongress es Congresos populares de base ... more details
The English folklore English folk legend of a shire oak , under the spreading limbs of which the ancient Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon open air folkmoot s and Thing assembly thing s were held, ref Charles Mosley, The Oak its natural history, antiquity & folk lore , 1910. ref is a feature of Merry England blockquote In olden times the rude hustings, with its noisy surging crowds, was the old popular mode of appeal to the people, voter and voteless, a remnant of Saxon times when men gathered under the shire oak... ref George Howell, One man, one vote National Liberal Pamphlet, 15 , in Foreign & Commonwealth Pamphlets , 1880. ref blockquote The Shire Oak legend arium has resulted in a number of toponym s in present day England . Oaks were often markers where three shire s came together, as Three Shire Stone Three shire Oak s at some of the List of tripoints of England tripoints of England . In Essex , a venerable shire oak was identified at Kelvedon . ref K.A. Rodwell, The Prehistoric and Roman Settlement at Kelvedon, Essex , 1988. ref Shire Oak is a section of Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , in which county the Shire Oak Colliery was excavated near Worksop . Shire Oak School is in Walsall Wood , West Midlands county West Midlands , where there is a Shire Oak Quarry and a Shire Oak Reservoir, ref http www2.walsall.gov.uk dcaccess applications 09 0981 DOC A 20Protected 20Species 20Survey 20And 20Report.pdf Shire Oak reservoir ref and there are numerous examples in England of a Shire Oak Road or Shire Oak Street . Providing a suitably Anglophone toponym, Shire Oak is a neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas and Shireoak Drive is a road in Houston, Texas Houston . Notes Reflist Category English folklore England stub culture stub ... more details
Arnold Fitz Thedmar August 9, 1201 &ndash 1274 or 1275 was a London chronicler and merchant he was born in London. General Both his parents were Germans German in origin. The family of his mother migrated to the Kingdom of England from Cologne in the reign of Henry II of England his father, Thedmar by name, was a citizen of Bremen city Bremen who had been attracted to London by the privileges which the Plantagenet s conferred upon the Teutons Teutonic Hanse . Arnold succeeded in time to his father s wealth and position. He held an honorable position among the Hanse traders, and became their alderman . He was also, by his own account, alderman of a London ward and an active partisan in municipal politics. In the Second Barons War he took the royal side against the populace and the mayor Thomas Fitz Thomas . The popular party planned, in 1265, to try him for his life before the folkmoot a meeting of the people , but he was saved by the news of the battle of Evesham which arrived on the very day appointed for the trial. Even after the triumph of Henry III of England , Arnold suffered from the malice of his enemies, who contrived that he should be unfairly assessed for the tallages imposed upon the city. He appealed for help to Henry III, and again to his son and successor Edward I of England Edward I , with the result that his liability was diminished. In 1270 he was one of the four citizens to whose keeping the muniments of the city were entrusted. To this circumstance we probably owe the compilation of his chronicle. Chronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum , which begins at the year 1188 and is continued to 1274. From 1239 onwards this work is a mine of curious information. Though municipal in its outlook, it is valuable for the general history of the kingdom, owing to the important part which London played in the agitation against the misrule of Henry III. We have the king s word for the fact that Arnold was a consistent royalist but this is apparent from the whole tenor of ... more details
Image FolkFestival2007.JPG thumb New Jersey Folk Festival on April 27, 2007 A Folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music . Regional Australia National Folk Festival Australia Canada Alberta Calgary Folk Music Festival Canmore Folk Music Festival Edmonton Folk Music Festival Jasper Folk Festival Wild Mountain Music Fest ref http www.wildmountainmusicfest.ca Wild Mountain Music Fest ref br Ontario Barriefolk Barrie Blue Skies Festival Clarendon Canterbury Folk Festival Ingersoll City Roots Festival Toronto Festival du Loup Penetanguishene Hillside Festival Guelph Home County Folk Festival London Mariposa Folk Festival Orillia Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music Cambridge Northern Lights Festival Bor al Sudbury Ottawa Folk Festival Ottawa Red Rock Folk Festival Red Rock Shelter Valley Folk Festival Grafton Stewart Park Festival Perth Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival Owen Sound TD Canada Trust Sunfest London Twisted Pines Music and Arts Festival Penetanguishene Winterfolk Roots and Blues Festival Toronto br Manitoba Brandon Folk, Music & Art Festival Folklorama Winnipeg Folk Festival br Nova Scotia Celtic Colours Cape Breton http deeprootsmusic.ca Deep Roots Music Festival Wolfville Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival Lunenburg Stan Rogers Folk Festival Canso br Saskatchewan Regina Folk Festival Saskatoon FolkFest Denmark T nder Festival Estonia Viljandi Folk Festival Image Anoriant1.jpg thumb right Festival Interceltique de Lorient France Festival Interceltique de Lorient Germany TFF.Rudolstadt Spain Interceltic Festival of Avil s Image Tranditional asturian dancers.jpg thumb right The 2004 Interceltic Festival of Avil s in Asturias , Spain USA Alaska Folk Festival American Folk Blues Festival Flood City Music Festival Florida Folk Festival Folkmoot USA New Jersey Folk Festival Northwest Folklife Festival Norsk H stfest National Folk Festival USA Newport Folk Festival Tour Philadelphia Folk Festival Pittsburgh Folk Festival Washington Folk ... more details
s bef before various folkmoot s s ttl title Witenagemot years c.627 ref George L. Gomme, Primitive ... ref The Entmoot in J.R.R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings uses the same root word as the folkmoot ... more details
Folkmoot redirects here. See Folkmoot USA for the festival. see Medieval Scandinavian laws File Germanische ratsversammlung 1 1250x715.jpg thumb 300px Germanic thing, drawn after the depiction in a relief of the Column of Marcus Aurelius AD 193 A thing Old Norse , Old English and Icelandic language Icelandic ing other modern Scandinavian languages ting was the governing assembly in Germanic tribes Germanic and introduced into some Celts Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeaker s, meeting in a place called a thingstead . Today, the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions in the Nordic countries, in the Manx form tyn , as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man , and in the English term husting . In Anglo Saxon England , a folkmoot or folkmote Old English meeting of the people was a governing general assembly consisting of all the free members of a tribe, community or district. It was the forerunner to the witenagemot , which was in turn in some respects the precursor of the modern Parliament of England Parliament . The Slavic Veche similarly developed from a general assembly into a legislature, and by some theories might have been directly inspired by the Scandinavian institution brought to Rus region Rus by the Varangian s. Etymology The Old Norse, Old Frisian and Old English ing with the meaning assembly is identical in origin to the English word thing , German Ding , Dutch ding , and modern Scandinavian ting when meaning object . ref name onlinetymology http www.etymonline.com index.php?l t&p 14 Douglas Harper s Online Etymological Dictionary , they to thoro . ref They are derived from Common Germanic engan meaning appointed time , and some suggest an origin in Proto Indo European language Proto Indo European ten , stretch , as in a stretch of time for an assembly . ref name onlinetymology The evolution of the word thing from assembly to object ... more details
onesource article date November 2007 The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry is a Scouting like movement operating in the United Kingdom , which was founded in 1916 by Ernest Westlake. Like Scouting, it was inspired by Ernest Seton s Seton Indians, and Seton was its honourary Grand Chieftain. Whilst largely being contemporary to Robert Baden Powell Baden Powell s Scouting movement, it differed from it in that it did not have the perceived military overtones of Scouting, instead focusing on the virtues of kindness, fellowship, animal conservation and woodcraft. The Order was small compared to Scouts, having only 1,200 members by 1926. ref name Hutton cite book last Hutton first Ronald authorlink Ronald Hutton title The Triumph of the Moon pages 163 ref Unlike Scouting, the Order was not a purely Christianity Christian organisation, instead accepting many of the premises of Neopaganism . Indeed, some have speculated that it provided the basis for the New Forest coven , and through that the Neopagan religion of Wicca . History Founding Westlake was a Natural history naturalist , anthropologist and traveller of Quaker upbringing, however in 1909 he began to fault Quakerism and extol the old gods of paganism . He was inspired by authors such as Edward Carpenter , Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche , Havelock Ellis , Jane Ellen Harrison , Edward Burnett Tylor Tylor and James George Frazer Frazer , and saw the Order as saving people from the cul de sac of intellectualized religion and reviving the greater Hellas of modern civilisation. He saw women as incarnations of God, to be worshipped in spirit and in truth he revered the Jack in the Green , which he considered to be the English equivalent of Dionysus , and held that the Trinity of Woodcraft consisted of Pan mythology Pan , Artemis and Dionysus. ref Hutton, pp. 164 5. ref The first folkmoot ceremony of the Order was held on an estate at Sandy Balls on the northern edge of the New Forest , on Lammas 1921, with the sacred fire lit by ... more details
Image StPaul sCross.jpg thumb 250px A sermon preached from St Paul s Cross in 1614 Society of Antiquaries of London Society of Antiquaries St Paul s Cross alternative spellings Powles Crosse was a preaching cross and open air pulpit in the grounds of Old St Paul s Cathedral , City of London . History The first folkmoot or general assembly of the people known to be held here was by John Mansell, a king s justice, on St Paul s Day in 1236, to announce to them that Henry III of England Henry III wished London to be well governed and its liberties guarded. The Boniface of Savoy Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury and the King attended the next such meeting we know of, in 1259, at which Londoners came to swear their allegiance to the latter and to his heirs though under duress, as a royal army was holding the city gates at this time . They also gathered here later to swear allegiance to Henry s opponent Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort . File Joseph Martin Kronheim Foxe s Book of Martyrs Plate VI Bradford Appeasing the Riot at St. Paul s Cross.jpg thumb 250 Bradford Appeasing the Riot at St. Paul s Cross , from an 1887 edition of Foxe s Book of Martyrs illustrated by Kronheim. According to Foxe, a Catholic speaker, Mr. Bourne, had nearly driven his Protestant listeners to riot, but Bradford came to his rescue and calmed the mob. ref John Foxe 1887 republication , Book of Martyrs , Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, pp. 160 61 ref A Richard Walker from Worcester , a chaplain, pleaded guilty to sorcery charges here in c.1422 but, after forswearing such practices and being arraigned by the Bishop of Llandaff then John de la Zouche , he was marched to Cheapside with his 2 magic books open upon him, where the books were burnt and he freed without any other punishment. Reginald Pecock , Bishop of St. Asaph , attacked Lollardy from this cross in 1437 but himself did public penance there in 1447 by which time he was Bishop of Chichester before ... more details
A husting called a stump in the United States originally referred to a physical platform from which representatives presented their views or cast votes before a parliamentary or other election body. By metonymy , the term may now refer to any event, such as debates or speeches, during an election campaign where one or more of the representative candidates are present. Development of the term The origin of the term comes from the Old English language Old English word hasting or Old Norse term h s ing , literally the house Thing assembly thing , meaning the assembly of the household of personal followers or retainers of a king, earl or chief, contrasted with the folkmoot , the assembly of the whole people. Citation needed date November 2010 Thing assembly Thing literally meant any inanimate object, but also could refer to a cause, suit, or assembly a similar development of meaning is found in the Latin res , as in the word republic or res publica public thing , meaning commonwealth . The word still appears in the names of some of the legislative assemblies throughout Scandinavia , for example the Folketing of Denmark , the Al ingi Althing of Iceland and the Storting of Norway . Citation needed date November 2010 Husting, or more usually the plural hustings, developed to mean a court of the city of London . This court was formerly the county court for the city and was held before the lord mayor , the sheriffs and aldermen, for the purpose of hearing pleas of land, common pleas and appeals from the sheriffs. It had probate jurisdiction and the ability to register wills. The charter of Canute 1032 contains a reference to hustings weights, which points to the early establishment of this court. It is doubtful says who date November 2010 whether courts of this name were held in other towns, but John Cowell 1554 1611 in his Interpreter 1601 s.v., Hustings, says that according to Fleta there were such courts at Winchester, York, Lincoln, Sheppey and elsewhere. However, the pa ... more details
Infobox German Location Wappen Wappen thuengen.png lat deg 49 lat min 56 lat sec 32 lon deg 9 lon min 51 lon sec 34 Lageplan Th ngen in MSP.svg Bundesland Bayern Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken Landkreis Main Spessart Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Zellingen H he 199 Fl che 13.61 PLZ 97289 Vorwahl 09360 Kfz MSP Gemeindeschl ssel 09 6 77 189 Adresse Markt Th ngen br W rzburger Str. 26 br 97225 Zellingen Website http www.markt thuengen.de www.markt thuengen.de B rgermeister Klaus Enzmann Partei B rger Th ngen is a market community in the Main Spessart Main Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia Unterfranken in Bavaria , Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Administrative Community of Zellingen. Geography Location Th ngen lies in the W rzburg Region, 25 km north of W rzburg and 30 km west of Schweinfurt , in the north of the Main Triangle Maindreieck on the river Wern. The community has only the Gemarkung traditional rural cadastral area of Th ngen. History On 19 April 788, Th ngen had its first documentary mention. In the Codex Eberhardi , it says blockquote ... Manto comes et frater eius Megingoz tradiderunt sancto Bonifacio bona sua in his locis Isinhusen, Wanchei, Heselere, Tungede, Binizfelt, Hoholtesheim, Steti, Bucheled ... blockquote The placename Th ngen comes from the word Thing assembly Thing also seen in Old English ing in the same sense, namely assembly . A ing pronounced the same way as the English language Modern English thing or a Ding German language Modern High German was the name for Volksversammlungen roughly, folkmoot s and assizes held under old Germanic peoples Germanic law . Th ngen s origins therefore point to a place where such gatherings were held. This explanation for the community s name s origin is disputed, however, with alternate explanations positing a Celtic languages Celtic or Ancient Rome Roman source for older forms of the name such as Thungidi or Tungede . File Thungen.jpg thumb 300px View fr ... more details
all free men had the right to participate in Germanic thing thing s folkmoot s . Germanic pagan society ... the earlier folkmoot , which was the equivalent of the Germanic thing , the assembly of all ... more details
Other uses Matlock disambiguation Infobox UK place official name Matlock country England region East Midlands population 10,689 population ref Parish os grid reference SK298601 latitude 53.14 longitude 1.55 post town MATLOCK postcode area DE postcode district DE4 dial code 01629 constituency westminster West Derbyshire UK Parliament constituency West Derbyshire civil parish Matlock Town shire district Derbyshire Dales shire county Derbyshire static image Image Matlock Riberview.jpg 240px static image caption small Matlock viewed from the nearby Riber Castle small Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire , England . It is situated at the south eastern edge of the Peak District , and forms part of the Sheffield City Region . The town is town twinning twinned with the French town Eaubonne . The former spa resort Matlock Bath lies immediately south of the town on the A6 road Great Britain A6 . Matlock, as a town, has a population of 10,689. The wider population of the Matlock urban area is approximately 20,000 including Darley Dale , Tansley , Hackney, Derbyshire Hackney and Matlock Bath . Often, the Matlock area is considered to include Wirksworth , due to the close proximity of the two towns. This would bring the area s population closer to 30,000. Matlock is nine miles 14 km south west of Chesterfield , surrounded by the cities of Derby 19 miles , Sheffield 20 miles , Nottingham 29 Miles and the Greater Manchester conurbation 30 miles . Although officially occupying a central England position geographically, Matlock is in the west of Derbyshire in what is known as the Derbyshire Dales which includes the towns of Wirksworth , Bakewell and Ashbourne, Derbyshire Ashbourne . History A former spa town , Matlock from the Old English for Folkmoot Moot Oak ref http www.nottingham.ac.uk cczappdv epnnewmap detailpop.php?placeno 3357 Matlock A Key To English Placenames , English Place Name Society database ref lies on the River Derwent, Derbyshire River Derwent , and has p ... more details
File Palacky Court Room 1.JPG thumb 250px right A law school s courtroom A moot court is an extracurricular activity at many law school s in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually to include drafting briefs or memorials and participating in oral argument . The term derives from Anglo Saxon times, when a Folkmoot moot gmot or emot was a gathering of prominent men in a locality to discuss matters of local importance. The modern activity differs from a mock trial , as moot court usually refers to a simulated appellate court or arbitration arbitral case, while a mock trial usually refers to a simulated jury trial or bench trial . Moot court does not involve actual testimony by witnesses or the presentation of evidence, but is focused solely on the application of the law to a common set of evidentiary assumptions to which the competitors must be introduced. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth countries, the phrase a moot court may be shortened to simply a moot and the activity may be called mooting . Moot court is one of the most prestigious extracurricular activities in many law schools. Students typically spend a semester researching and writing the memorials, as well as practising their oral arguments. Whereas domestic moot court competitions tend to focus on municipal law, regional and international moot competitions tend to focus on subjects such as public international law , international human rights law , and international humanitarian law . International moot competitions List of notable international moot competitions class wikitable bgcolor efefef Competition Established Subject matter Annual participation Location of finals National or regional rounds Most wins Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Jessup ref http www.ilsa.org jessup archives.php ref 1960 Public international law 500 600 teams Washington D.C. Yes National University of Singapore Faculty of Law National University of ... more details
A moot hill or mons placiti statute hill ref http www.fifetoday.co.uk CustomPages CustomPage.aspx?PageID 17707 Mons Placiti. ref is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place. In Early Middle Ages early medieval Britain in the Middle Ages Britain , such hills were used for moot s, meetings of local people to settle local business. Among other things, proclamations might be read decisions might be taken court cases might be settled at a moot. Although some moot hills were naturally occurring features or had been created long before as burial mounds, others were purpose built. Etymology Although the word moot or mote , is of Old English origin, deriving from the verb to meet , it has come to have a wider meaning throughout the United Kingdom initially referring to any popular gathering. In England the folkmoot in time came to be a more specific term for a local assembly with recognized legal rights and in Scotland the term is used in the literature for want of any other single accepted term. Siting and purpose Many moot, mote or mute hills are known by that name today. Others have local names such as Court Hill, Justice Hill, Judgement Hill, Mount, Munt, Moat Hill, Tandle, Downan, Bonfire Hill, Cuthill, etc. Many are also associated with names such as Knol, knock, knowe, or law. ref Love, Dane 2009 . Legendary Ayrshire. Custom Folklore Tradition . Auchinleck Carn Publishing. ISBN 978 0 9518128 6 0. pp. 91 100 ref Image SilburyHill gobeirne.jpg thumb 290px Silbury Hill Many other names are used for prominent earthworks, depending to some extent on their location within the United Kingdom , and some of them are known to have served as moot hills at some point in their existence. Terms include Tumulus, how, howe, low, tump, cnwc, pen, butt, toot, tot, cop, mount, mound, hill, knoll, mot, moot, knol, motte, and druid hill. Often the names are combined, as in Knockenlaw, Law Mount, etc. Some hills known today as moot hills were actually historically ... more details
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