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Prayer and Compassion Beads

  
The History and Meaning of Prayer Beads

Over two-thirds of the world's population employ prayer beads as part of their religious practices.

Jack London by Daniel A. Métraux

The Adventurer-Writer who Chronicled Asian Wars, Confronted Racism—and Saw the Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hiroshima 2011 Peace Declaration

Every year, on August 6, the sitting mayor of Hiroshima presents a peace declaration, calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament.  The speech is presented to commemorate the lives of the 200,000 people were killed by the four-tonne uranium bomb which exploded above Hiroshima in 1945, devastating the city.

The Franck Report

Report of the Committee on Political and Social Problems
Manhattan Project "Metallurgical Laboratory": University of Chicago, June 11, 1945

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