The Sons of the Desert child members. The Sons of the Desert The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 movie "Sons of the Desert". In 1964, a few years after the book, "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy," was published, author John McCabe formed a small group of Laurel and Hardy admirers, including Orson Bean, cartoonist Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann, and John Municino. McCabe created a mock-serious “constitution” that satirized the formalities
International Free Press Society International Free Press Society The International Free Press Society (IFPS), founded on January 1, 2009, is a creation of the Danish Free Press Society. The stated purpose of IFPS "is to defend freedom of expression wherever and by whomever it is threatened". The IFPS was created as an extension of "Free Press Society, Denmark", created in 2004 by Lars Hedegaard, a Danish newspaper commentator. According to its own account, the "Free Press Society" arose because of increasing pressure on free speech, including the Danish Cartoon crisis. The "Free Press Society" claims to be "Denmark´s biggest organisation exclusively devoted to defending