• The New York Peace Society was the first peace society to be established in the United States. It has had several different incarnations, as it has merged...
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    The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on...
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    The American Peace Society is a pacifist group founded upon the initiative of William Ladd, in New York City, May 8, 1828. It was formed by the merging...
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  • The Peace Society, International Peace Society or London Peace Society, originally known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace...
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    The first formal peace movements appeared in 1815 and 1816. The first movement in the United States was the New York Peace Society, founded in 1815 by...
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    Pacifism (redirect from Religion of peace®)
    disseminated. The first peace movements appeared in 1815–16. In the United States the first such movement was the New York Peace Society, founded in 1815 by...
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    The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded in 1874 (and incorporated in 1875). It is the world's first child protective...
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    New York, often called New York City or simply NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one...
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    Andrew Carnegie (category Presidents of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York)
    Students in the University of St. Andrews, October 17, 1905. New York: New York Peace Society (1911). Collected works Wall, Joseph Frazier, ed. The Andrew...
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    Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is a non-stock, not-for-profit organization headquartered in Warwick, New York, United States. It is the...
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    The American Peace Society House, also known as the Glover House, is a historic house at 734 Jackson Place NW, facing Lafayette Square in the heart of...
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    to War and Peace. Penguin Classics. Pevear, Richard (2008). "Introduction". War and Peace. Trans. Pevear; Volokhonsky, Larissa. New York: Vintage Books...
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  • Low Dodge (1774–1852), American philanthropist, founder of the New York Peace Society David S. Dodge (1922–2009), former President of the American University...
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    boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with New York County, the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York. Located...
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    Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict...
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    The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball...
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    Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions'...
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    October 27, protestors organized by Jewish Voice for Peace occupied Grand Central Terminal in New York City, calling for a ceasefire and wearing t-shirts...
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    The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken /ˈkjuːni/, KYOO-nee) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university...
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  • This is a list of feature-length films (at least 45 minutes) shown at the New York Film Festival. Films previously released in the U.S. and screened as retrospectives...
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    Tammany Society. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State...
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    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve...
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  • The World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) is a non-sectarian pacifist organization. Its motto is "May Peace Prevail on Earth". WPPS was founded in 1955 by...
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    private companies tried to register the peace symbol as a trade mark: the Intercontinental Shoe Corporation of New York and Luv, Inc. of Miami. Commissioner...
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    American Peace Society was formed in 1828 by the merger of the Massachusetts Peace Society and similar societies in New York, Maine, and New Hampshire.[6]...
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    The Tree of Peace Society was founded in 1984 and incorporated in New York State on October 17, 1994, as a "foreign" not-for-profit corporation ("foreign"...
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  • Women's Peace Society was an organized movement that focused on demilitarization in the United States and iniquity of violence. The Women's Peace Society was...
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    List of anti-war organizations (category Peace organizations)
    Vietnam National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee New York Peace Society – first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars No Conscription...
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    by German Jewry. Jewish people looking for peace and new life, and especially in the 19th century, New York was somewhere to do it. Many settlers started...
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  • timeline of the history of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to see New York Harbor arrives and names...
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