A particularly successful form of multi-stakeholder cooperative is the Italian social cooperative, of which some 11,000 exist.  1 Type A social cooperatives bring together providers and beneficiaries of a social service as members.
The sport of Quidditch gets its name from Queerditch Marsh, the location of the first recorded game. A witch by the name of Gertie Keddle lived on the edge of the marsh around the year 1050 and recorded what she saw in a diary that survives to this day.
Down the line they come from the same origin. http://www.indepthinfo.com/checkers/hist... http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/histor... Checkers, or Draughts as it is known in Great Britain, has ancient roots. It is thought that the earliest form of checkers was a game discovered in an archeological dig at Ur in Iraq.