His uncle was a charter member of the Texas Rangers, which was formed around 1836.

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Few believed Maryland, a charter member of the ACC, was part of those plans but Rutgers was a natural fit.

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In 1920 the team became a charter member of the NFL. In 1932 Michael Bidwill's grandfather, Charles W. Bidwill Sr.

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It's fairly easy to be a charter member of the Tom Lehrer Club, which probably embraces a fair number of the intellectual classes and has sympathizers even in the most surprising families.

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In 2003, UNESCO's General Conference adopted a "Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage", a declaration of principle designed to assist Member States in preparing national policies to preserve, and provide access to, digital heritage.

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Only a few months ago ASEAN leaders were talking about setting up a regional human-rights body and adopting a strong new charter that would, for the first time, impose binding decisions on member countries and sanctions against wayward ones.

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The company's charter required the establishment of a museum "to house the natural and artificial curiosities" brought back by member ships.

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