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The tallest (16.5 m (54 ft)) peace pole in the world on the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. It is made of a 105 years old Sapele tree. 5 languages (Twi—a local language in Ghana, Hindi, Chinese, Swahili, and Arabic) have been used to express the peace prayer on the pole: "May Peace Be on Earth".
English, Wôpanâak and Braille languages will be used on the Peace Poles planned for Sandwich and Bourne, a Rotary Club member said.
The World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) is a pacifist organization. It was founded in 1988. [1] In 2019, the organization's official name was changed to MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH INTERNATIONAL [2]. Its motto is "May Peace Prevail on Earth". This was taken from the prayer of the religion Masahisa Goi（五井昌久） founded. [3]
A simple pole outside Braintree Town Hall expresses a wish for peace in eight different languages, one of thousands worldwide.
The pole's message reads "May peace prevail on earth," which is also translated into eight languages including, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Japanese.
Uncontracted braille was previously known as grade 1 braille, and contracted braille was previously known as grade 2 braille. Uncontracted braille is a direct transliteration of print words (one-to-one correspondence); hence, the word "about" would contain all the same letters in uncontracted braille as it does in inkprint.
The braille package for LaTeX (and several printed publications such as the printed manual for the new international braille music code) show unpunched dots as very small dots (much smaller than the filled-in dots) rather than circles, and this tends to print better.
English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, [1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters , numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations . Some English Braille letters, such as ⠡ ch , [2] correspond to more than one letter in print.