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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 ...
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  • | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...
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  • 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...
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  • family in Poland, he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...
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  • also known as Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, was the co-founder, with Betty Williams ... After winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Corrigan gained recognition as ...
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  • academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...
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  • bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological ... Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), ... quot;) is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet ...
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  • In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of ...
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  • biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ... management. Orr became a pupil-teacher at the Academy, from where he went ...
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  • from Northern Ireland, and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize ... He was the second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ...
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  • leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... Friesland. Friesland was ravaged by war in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Djiboutian Civil War (also known as the Afar Insurgency) was a ... However, the war and the flow of Somalian refugees from the Somali ...
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  • The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...
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  • from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Nobel Peace Prize Winners Addams, Jane [[Image:UIC Hull House ... and reformer, known in United States as the "mother of social work ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...
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  • [[Image:Old Bailey Microcosm edited.jpg|250px|thumb|A trial at the ... civil, labor, administrative, and criminal justice under its laws. In common ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to parliament in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her ...
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  • The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...
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  • The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Michigan ... The Foundation makes grants through its New York headquarters and ...
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  • , 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and politician, who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive ... universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada ...
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  • diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...
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  • quot;—apparently a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the ... Amos is regarded as the first of the "literary prophets," ...
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  • American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...
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  • shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of ... judicial review. Oddly enough, the Justice-of-the-Peace commissions, which ...
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  • dissident and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen ... in 1938. Following evacuation in 1941 during the World War II, he graduated ...
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  • William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... that women were equal to men. He negotiated peace treaties with native Americans ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...
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  • Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as an academic and a journalist, and was the first appointed professor ... 1864, in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, into the prominent Anglican family ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...
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