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Japanese Peace Bell, the Glossary

The Japanese Peace Bell is a bell donated to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City via the United Nations Association of Japan in June 1954.^[1]

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Abdulla Shahid

Abdulla Shahid (ޢަބްދުﷲ ޝާހިދު; born 26 May 1962) is a Maldivian politician who served as President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly between 2021 and 2022 and the President of the Maldivian Democratic Party.

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António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat.

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Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (আনোয়ারুল করিম চৌধুরী; born 5 February 1943) is a Bangladeshi diplomat most noted for his work on development in the poorest nations, global peace and championing the rights of women and children.

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Arvid Pardo

Arvid Pardo (February 12, 1914 – June 19, 1999) was a Maltese and Swedish diplomat of Jewish origin, scholar, and university professor.

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Bonshō

, also known as or are large bells found in Buddhist temples throughout Japan, used to summon the monks to prayer and to demarcate periods of time.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī; 14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.

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Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.

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Central Bureau of Investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India.

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Chester E. Norris

Chester Edward Norris, Jr. (December 1, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea from 1988 to 1992.

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Csaba Kőrösi

Csaba Kőrösi (born 1958) is a Hungarian diplomat who served as President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly.

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Cynthia Lennon

Cynthia Lennon (Powell; 10 September 1939 – 1 April 2015) was a British artist and author, and the first wife of John Lennon.

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David Dinkins

David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

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Dennis Francis (diplomat)

Dennis Francis (born 27 November 1956) is a diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago who has served as his country's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York since 2021.

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Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

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Edward Abramson

Edward Abramson (September 21, 1920 – May 10, 2012) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from the 32nd district from 1973 to 1990.

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Edward Gibson

Edward George Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist.

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Edwina Sandys

Edwina Sandys (born 22 December 1938) is an English artist and sculptor.

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Ehime Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.

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Estefania Aldaba-Lim

Estefanía Aldaba-Lim (born Estefanía "Fanny" Aldaba; January 6, 1917 – March 7, 2006) was the first female secretary of any Cabinet of the Philippines, serving as Secretary of Social Services and Development from 1971 to 1977.

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Expo '70

The or Expo 70 was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970.

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F. Bradford Morse

Frank Bradford Morse (August 7, 1921 – December 18, 1994) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

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Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.

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Gerhard Pfanzelter

Gerhard Pfanzelter (born 1943) is an Austrian diplomat.

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Gillian Sorensen

Gillian Sorensen is a former United Nations assistant secretary-general for external relations who works with groups and organizations committed to peace, justice, development, refugees, and human rights.

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Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Japanese Peace Bell and headquarters of the United Nations are United Nations properties.

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Helen Galland

Helen Galland (June 1, 1925 – September 1, 2008) was an American retail executive and businesswoman who served as president of Bonwit Teller from 1980 to 1983.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.

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International Day of Peace

The International Day of Peace, also officially known as World Peace Day, is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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John McConnell (peace activist)

John McConnell (March 22, 1915 – October 20, 2012) was the founder and creator of Earth Day, and The Earth Society Foundation.

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Kagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.

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Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.

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Lisbeth Palme

Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme (née Beck-Friis; 14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018) was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the wife of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, until his assassination in 1986.

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March equinox

The March equinox or northward equinox is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth.

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s.

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Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

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Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme (30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986.

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Osaka

is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paul McRae

Paul Edmund McRae (20 October 1924 – 3 November 1992) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

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Peace symbols

A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.

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Pope

The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini,; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978.

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Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli,; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958.

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Port of Yokohama

The is operated by the Port and Harbor Bureau of the City of Yokohama in Japan.

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Razali Ismail

Razali bin Ismail (born 14 April 1939) is a Malaysian diplomat.

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René Dubos

René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal.

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Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born January 9, 1959) is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Robert Muller (United Nations)

Robert Muller (11 March 1923 – 20 September 2010) was an international globalist theosophist with the United Nations.

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Secretary (title)

Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Shikoku

, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.

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Shinichi Kitaoka

is a Japanese political scientist.

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Takamatsu

Takamatsu City Hall Aerial view of Takamatsu city center View from Yashima to Takashima port is a capital city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Tijjani Muhammad-Bande

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (born 7 December 1957) is a Nigerian diplomat, academic and political scientist who was the president of the United Nations General Assembly 74th session from 17 September 2019 to 15 September 2020.

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Trinity Church (Manhattan)

Trinity Church is a historic parish in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, whose church is located at 89 Broadway opposite Wall Street, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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U Thant

Thant (22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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UNICEF

UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Art Collection

The United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations, or individuals. Japanese Peace Bell and United Nations Art Collection are diplomatic gifts and United Nations art collection.

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United Nations Economic and Social Council

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Peace_Bell

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See also

Buddhism and peace

Buildings and structures completed in 1952

Diplomatic gifts

Individual bells in the United States

Japan and the United Nations

Peace symbols

United Nations art collection

United Nations properties

References