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.
History of US Quidditch. Quidditch was founded in 2005 at Middlebury College by then-freshman Xander Manshel. Looking for a variation on their normal Sunday activities, Manshel and his friends laid the foundation for a game that has grown in leaps and bounds to become a widely respected, physically intense sport.
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.