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- – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- family in Poland, he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- also known as Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, was the co-founder, with Betty Williams ... After winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Corrigan gained recognition as ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological ... Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ... in efforts to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University ...13 KB (1,884 words) - 14:31, 28 June 2023
- Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), ... quot;) is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ... management. Orr became a pupil-teacher at the Academy, from where he went ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- from Northern Ireland, and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize ... He was the second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ...10 KB (1,561 words) - 06:00, 3 August 2022
- leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... Friesland. Friesland was ravaged by war in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 04:32, 9 November 2022
- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- The Djiboutian Civil War (also known as the Afar Insurgency) was a ... However, the war and the flow of Somalian refugees from the Somali ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ... been appointed to the position of justice of the peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Category:Nobel Peace Prize Winners Addams, Jane [[Image:UIC Hull House ... and reformer, known in United States as the "mother of social work ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- [[Image:Old Bailey Microcosm edited.jpg|250px|thumb|A trial at the ... civil, labor, administrative, and criminal justice under its laws. In common ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- African American scientist and a champion of civil rights and world peace. ... City, Maryland, on November 9, 1731. He was the first of three children to ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- to parliament in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Michigan ... The Foundation makes grants through its New York headquarters and ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- , was an Austrian novelist, pacifist and the first woman to win the Nobel ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- and politician, who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive ... universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- and politician who was for many years the voice of the young nation ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...13 KB (1,735 words) - 11:44, 3 May 2023
- quot;—apparently a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the ... Amos is regarded as the first of the "literary prophets," ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of ... judicial review. Oddly enough, the Justice-of-the-Peace commissions, which ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- dissident and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen ... in 1938. Following evacuation in 1941 during the World War II, he graduated ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... that women were equal to men. He negotiated peace treaties with native Americans ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- The “Fulani Empire” is now known as the Sokoto Caliphate or “Sultanate ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- as an academic and a journalist, and was the first appointed professor ... 1864, in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, into the prominent Anglican family ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the ... Born the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first widely used ... The Oslo peace process began as the international community responded ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein ... Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was born in Washington, DC, of Arab ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- 19, 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 ... Guillaume de Grimoard, was a native of Grizac in Languedoc (today ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- politician, and stateswoman. She was the first woman in Canadian history ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- and social reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social ... William Henry Beveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879 ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... The Revolution restored the parliament, which had been suspended by ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- 6, 2002) was, for over 35 years, one of America's leading anti ... by his wartime experiences. Following the war, he became a Catholic ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... in 1974 after it became known that one of his closest aides had been ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- from 98, until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors ... As a civilian administrator, Trajan maintained good relations with ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... His father, Augustus, who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her ... grew up in Tiergarten, a fashionable section of town, with her parents. She ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ... ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (April 25, 1287 – November ... and quartered. In 1328, he was created Earl of March. In 1330, Edward III ...18 KB (2,777 words) - 02:39, 16 December 2022
- 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- , established in 1945, is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... not be considered such in another. However, the basic effort on the part of ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was appointed justice of the peace in 1762, judge of the court ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples ... Norse Mythology is renowned for its rich tapestry of colorful stories ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth ... Titled "The Judiciary Department", Federalist No. 78 was ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... Known as Suleiman the Magnificent but also, especially among Muslims ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... as a "cheery elf," rather than the common image of the austere ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for ... July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- a powerful English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Wolsey became involved in furthering the political ambitions of Henry ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was ... who was sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace, in Plymouth Notch ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving ... The background to the Taif Agreement consists of both the Lebanese ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Sargon I, also known as Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the Great (Akkadian: ... Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister ... The fact that Hasina is her father's daughter has played a significant ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia has recently been afflicted by two civil wars, the Liberian ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Bestiary.jpg|thumb|350px|The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary.]] The phoenix, or phœnix as it is sometimes spelled, has been an enduring ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ... peace, a precursor to the office of Justice of the Peace. His use of the knights ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
