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Elihu Burritt
Elihu Burritt 1810-79, American reformer, b. New Britain, Conn. A blacksmith, he studied mathematics, languages, and geography and became known as "the learned blacksmith." Profoundly idealistic, he supported many reform causes—antislavery, temperance, and self-education—and he... Read more |
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David Low Dodge
David Low Dodge 1774-1852, American merchant and pacifist, b. Brooklyn, Conn. In 1815 he founded the New York Peace Society, possibly the first such organization to be established. In 1828 other peace societies joined with it to form the American Peace Society; Dodge served as a director and as a... Read more |
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War and Peace
War and Peace TOLSTOYAN WISDOM IN WAR AND PEACE THE NOVEL IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL UNREST FORM OF THE WORK FUTURE IMPACT BIBLIOGRAPHY War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is arguably the world’s greatest epic novel. Written and published in the monthly Russkij Vestnik from... Read more |
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Partnership for Peace
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Kiss of Peace
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Indiana University
Indiana University main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ.) is at Indianapolis, and there are campuses at South Bend, Kokomo, Fort... Read more |
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William Sloane Coffin Jr
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. 1924-2006, American Protestant social activist, b. New York City. Strongly influenced by the social philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr , Coffin became a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s when he was chaplain at his alma mater, Yale. As... Read more |
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Versailles Peace Settlement
Versailles settlement. The armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended the First World War led to a peace congress in Paris at which the French, British, and American delegations, assisted by a myriad of diplomats from other allied powers, worked out a new map of Europe and, under pressure from the... Read more |
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Mohamed El Baradei
Mohamed ElBaradei Mohamed ElBaradei (born 1942), Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Later that year he was appointed to a third term as IAEA director. A lifelong diplomat and one of just a few individuals from the Arab... Read more |
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Sir Norman Angell
Sir Norman Angell 1872?-1967, British internationalist and economist, whose name originally was Ralph Norman Angell Lane. He came to fame with The Great Illusion (1910, rev. ed. 1933), in which he posited that the common economic interests of nations make war futile. At the close of World War I... Read more |
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Profile: Reza Baluchi runs from Los Angeles to New York to promote world peace
...11-2003 Profile: Reza Baluchi runs from Los Angeles to New York to promote world peaceHost...years ago, Reza Baluchi ... |