"The museum was founded when the mainstream wasn't paying attention to African-American art.
Arlington Cemetery was founded when the Union Army seized one of the Lee family houses and began burying Civil War casualties in the back yard.
In 1680 the company that has survived as the Comédie-Française was founded when the Guénégaud company merged with that at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, to become the only professional French company then playing in Paris.
Cornell Tech was founded when the partnership of Cornell University and the Technion were selected in December of 2011 as one of the winners of New York City's visionary Applied Sciences NYC initiative, created under Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor Robert Steel.
The choir was founded when the country was under Soviet domination; only in 1987, with the success of their record "Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares," did the choir become popular in Western Europe and America.
Ampleforth was founded when the monks had to move again after the French Revolution, and returned to England as the anti-Catholic laws were gradually relaxed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The City Parochial Foundation, for example, was founded when the secular property belonging to churches in the City of London was transferred to the foundation through an act of parliament in 1883.
The profits were almost entirely re-invested and hence the joint venture did not produce an accumulated, single surplus until 15 years after the joint venture was founded, when the dispute arose.
Much of this went to the Prince of Wales National Relief Fundd in England, which was founded when the war started; Southern Rhodesian branches of the fund were promptly organised in several towns and ultimately consolidated into the Rhodesian War Relief Fund.
A town of over 5,500 inhabitants, Bani Zeid was founded when the villages of Deir Ghassaneh and Beit Rima merged to form a municipality in 1966 during Jordanian rule.
