Laurel and Hardy comedians. The official Laurel and Hardy appreciation society is known as The Sons of the Desert which was named after a fictitious fraternal society featured in the Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert. Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire (today Cumbria), England into a theatrical family. His father Arthur Joseph Jefferson was a theatrical entrepreneur and theatre owner in northern England and Scotland who, with his wife, was a major force in the industry. In 1905, the Jefferson family moved to Glasgow to be closer to their
Emily Dickinson International Society Japan (2007), England (2010) and the 2014 event is planned for the USA. The society is affiliated to the American Literature Association (ALA), "a Coalition of Societies Devoted to the Study of American Authors" and is sponsoring two sessions at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference. An Emily Dickinson Society had been formed in Japan in 1980, eight years before the foundation of EDIS. Emily Dickinson International Society The Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) is an international organisation relating to American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). It was founded in 1988 and its aim is to "Promote, perpetuate and enhance the study