He has gained fame around the world as a quintessential example of a benevolent national founder.

Ma then burned joss sticks, laid a wreath, and offered fruit, cloth, and wine to the mythological national founder.

The Córdoba was named after Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, the national founder.

At the National Founders' Meeting on December 13, 2010, signage was displayed on stage featuring red and blue animal artwork.

He is only 27 or 28 years old, and lacks any apparent revolutionary credentials beyond a physical resemblance to his grandfather, the revered national founder Kim Il-sung.

Murchison-Blake recruited six other women who would become the national founders of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority.

Despite such resistance, the national founders' continued efforts set the stage for Theta Nu Xi's presence in the Greek, non-Greek, and surrounding communities.

To commemorate the end result of their perseverance, the national founders - now known as the Founding Monarchs - acknowledged April 11, 1997 as the official founding date of the organization.

Portraits of Mr Kim and his late father, the national founder Kim Il-sung, are mandatory fixtures in every home, office and factory in the hardline communist state of 23 million people.

This year is a crucial one for North Korea as it tries to build a "powerful nation" befitting the April 2012 centenary of the birth of national founder Kim Il-sung, the new leader's grandfather.

The body was laid out in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, a mausoleum where the embalmed body of Kim's father - national founder Kim Il Sung - has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994.

Other North Koreans walked in line past a giant painting of Kim Jong Il and his late father, national founder Kim Il Sung, standing together on Mount Paektu, Kim Jong Il's official birthplace.

THURSDAY - Elizabeth Taylor, national founder and chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, was ill and had to cancel her appearance at the masked dinner-dance at the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center.

The Director of Greek Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill advised the national founders to consider joining an existing organization, expressing his concern that a new Greek organization based on the principle of multiculturalism, would not survive at UNC.