The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal organisation founded in 1888 at Louisville, Kentucky, by John Henry Wilson. The first lodge was established in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Supreme Lodge, headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois, co-ordinates the activities of the lodges and chapters in the USA and Canada. Two major philanthropic projects of the Moose are Mooseheart, a home and school for dependent children of deceased members, and Moosehaven in Orange Park, Florida, a home for aged members and their spouses. Moose lodges and chapters are also involved in local civic projects. Research Loyal Order of Moose
The elk or moose, is a large deer (Alces alces) found in north Europe, Asia and Scandinavia.
The elk has a short compact body, standing about 1.8 metres in height at the shoulders, a thick neck, large clumsy head, and horns which flatten out almost from the base into a broad palmate form with numerous snags. In colour the elk is greyish brown, the limbs, sides of head, and coarse mane being, however, of a lighter hue. Their flesh resembles beef rather than venison. For the most they are inoffensive, and so exceedingly wary that they are approached only with difficulty. In America the Indians are the most skilful moose-hunters. The moose has a wide range in Canada, extending from the ArcticOcean and British Columbia to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; and it is found also in Maine. It feeds largely on the shoots of trees or shrubs, such as the willow and maple, and on bark, etc. Research Elk
Slippery Elm (Ulmus fuvula), also known as Red Elm, Moose Elm and Indian Elm, is a small North American tree of the family Urticaceae. The branches are very rough, the leaves long, unequally toothed, rough with hairs on both sides, the leaf-buds are covered with a dense yellow wool. The flowers are stalkless. The inner bark has important medicinal properties and is used as an emollient, expectorant, diuretic, nutritive and demulcent. Research Slippery Elm
In Iroquois mythology, Ga-oh is the wind-giant. His house is guarded by a bear, whose prowling brings the north wind; a panther whose whining brings the westerly wind; a moose whose breathing brings the wet east wind and a fawn whose returning to its mother brings the gentle south wind. Research Ga-oh
The Yakovlev Yak-11 (Moose) is a Soviet two-seater intermediate and advanced flying trainer with limited armament training capability. The Yak-11 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane that entered service in 1947. The Yak-11 is armed with one 12.7 mm Beresin UBS heavy machine-gun or one 7.62 mm ShKAS machine-gun in the upper port side of the fuselage and can carry 200 kg of disposable stores on two under-wing hard points. One Shvetsov ASh-21 seven-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine provides a top speed of 465 kmh and a range of 1280 km, an endurance of 4 hours 20 minutes flying. Research YAK-11
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