Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
The pole's message reads "May peace prevail on earth," which is also translated into eight languages including, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Japanese.
A simple pole outside Braintree Town Hall expresses a wish for peace in eight different languages, one of thousands worldwide.
where the word premier, French for "first", can be read. Braille was based on a tactile code, now known as night writing, developed by Charles Barbier. (The name "night writing" was later given to it when it was considered as a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without a light source, but Barbier's writings do not use this term and suggest that it was originally designed ...
Relief at the entrance of the Cultural Center of the Armies in Madrid, showing the Latin phrase "Si vis pacem, para bellum.". Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkɛ̃ ˈparaː ˈbɛllʊ̃]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war."
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.