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
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