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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".
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]
The pole's message reads "May peace prevail on earth," which is also translated into eight languages including, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Japanese. Rotary Club of Granville dedicates new Peace ...
A simple pole outside Braintree Town Hall expresses a wish for peace in eight different languages, one of thousands worldwide.
Om. May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere. May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers. May peace flow over the whole universe. May peace be in the Whole Universe. And may there always exist in all peace and peace alone.
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.
The idea was developed in Britain in the Second World War, initially from an idea by Major Wellesley Tudor Pole. People were asked to devote one minute of prayer for peace at nine o’clock each evening. He said: “There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere.
See Hungarian Braille for an alphabet which has exploited a pattern of mirror images, and Thai Braille for the series ⠧ บ b, ⠯ ป p, ⠏ ผ ph 1, ⠹ พ ph 2. A regional UNESCO conference on braille uniformity for southern Asia took place in 1950. [12] This led to a conference with global scope the following year.