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Organizations of the Dune universe. Appearance. hide. Young Alia Atreides in front of (from left to right) a Spacing Guild agent, Princess Irulan, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and her Bene Gesserit, and Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, from the 2000 Dune miniseries. Multiple organizations of the Dune universe dominate the political, religious ...
Blue Shirts Society (三民主義力行社) Yellow Sand Society (黃沙會) Flower of Light Sect (燈花教) Golden Flag Sect (金幢教) Community for the Study of the Way and its Virtue (道德学社) Great Way of Maitreya (弥勒大道) Life Healing Sect (救世教), also known by its corporate name Community of the Awakening to the Goodness ...
The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
Guild. A guild (/ ɡɪld / GILD) is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations of tradespeople belonging to a professional association. They sometimes depended on grants of letters patent from a monarch or other ruler to ...
Forever People. Freedom Fighters. Global Guardians. Golden Guardians. Green Lantern Corps. Inferior Five. Infinity Inc. Justice League Unlimited. Justice League of America.
Freemasonry. Freemasonry or Masonry refers to various fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Freemasonry is the oldest fraternity in the world and among the oldest ...
The Church of Scotland Guild or simply The Guild (formerly known as the Woman's Guild), is a movement within the Church of Scotland. Historically it was, and often in practice it is, an exclusively woman's movement. It has groups, organised at a congregational level, in most of the parishes of Scotland. The aim of the movement is "to invite and ...
The guilds of Florence were secular corporations that controlled the arts and trades in Florence from the twelfth into the sixteenth century. These Arti included seven major guilds (collectively known as the Arti Maggiori), five middle guilds (Arti Mediane) and nine minor guilds (Arti Minori). Their rigorous quality control and the political ...