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	Japanese Peace Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Japanese Peace Bell (cast on October 24, 1952) was a gift of the people of Japan ("People of Nippon") to the United Nations on June 8, 1954 (despite the fact that Japan had not yet been admitted to the United Nations).
		The Peace Bell is housed in a Japanese cypress wood structure, resembling a Shinto shrine, in New York City at 42nd Street and First Avenue.
		The metal in the bell was obtained from coins donated by the delegates of the 60 nations (from coins collected by children) attending the 13th General Conference of United Nations Associations held in Paris in 1951.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_Peace_Bell (434 words)

	Japanese Peace Bell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bell weighs (Click link for more info and facts about 116 kg) 116 kg, is (Click link for more info and facts about 1 m) 1 m high and (Click link for more info and facts about 0.6 m) 0.6 m in diameter at the base.
		The metal in the bell was obtained from coins donated by the delegates of the 60 nations (from coins collected by children) attending the 13th General Conference of United Nations Associations held in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris in 1951.
		A stamp series of the Japanese Peace Bell, designed by Ole Hamann of (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) Denmark, was issued in 1970 as part of the United Nations Postal Service's Art at the United Nations series.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/japanese_peace_bell.htm (561 words)

	peace symbol information
		A peace symbol is generally regarded as a very positive symbol, and are used for many causes, for example by various international organizations, as well as in protest or manifestations.
		The bell remains at UN headquarters and is struck yearly, in remembrance for peace.
		The ringing of gongs and bells, and the banging of a judge's gavel, often have conventional meanings in certain contexts; and bowing is a common way to indicate respect.
	www.war-against-terror.net /peace-symbol.htm (888 words)

	The Martins, World Bells of Peace and Freedom
		The "peace bell" is located on the southern edge of the Moesern village on a little hill offering a panoramic view of the Tirolean mountain world and the Upper Inntal valley.
		The bell was produced to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the landing in the USA of the original in September 1752.
		Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger of Strafford, Chester County, Pennsylvania was the benefactor of the Bell.
	www.martinmdb.com /peacebells.html (2142 words)

	Peace Bell - UN Cyberschoolbus
		The Japanese Peace Bell was was cast from coins collected by children from 60 different countries.
		"We did not ring the peace bell on Tuesday, and perhaps many of us do not feel like ringing it now, as we are still learning the full scale of this week's tragedy," observed Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the rain-soaked ceremony on the front lawn of the UN complex.
		"We ring this peace bell in solidarity with the people and Government of the United States, at this moment of immense suffering and bereavement," He said.
	www.un.org /pubs/cyberschoolbus/bell.html (166 words)

	Bells
		In bell founding, molten metal (usually bronze) is poured into a mold consisting of an inner core and outer mold or cope contoured to a bell's profile.
		Bell metal, or bronze, is an alloy of copper and tin.
		They were the first to tune the bells with precision, especially with regard to a bell's inner tuning (i.e., of the partial tones that make up a bell's complex sound), and thus to put fully into practice the results of research completed 200 years earlier.
	www.martinmdb.com /bells.html (3778 words)

	Wikinfo \| Japanese people
		The Japanese people (日本人, nihon'-jin or nippon-jin) are those who typically speak Japanese language, are born in Japan and live, age, and die in Japan with Japanese citizenship and name.
		The Chinese believe that Japanese are the decendants of a Chinese general who have fled to Japan to look for a medicine that gives everlasting life.
		Japanese have a strong sense of isolationism and social cohesion, referring to foreigners as "gai-jin" (outside person).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Nisei (409 words)

	The world's top Peace websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A non-profit organization for the development of peaceful relations between peoples, by tolerance and mutual respect founded on the rejection of violence as a means to resolving conflicts.
		Active in education for peace and justice, the prevention of war, an an end to arms sales, the abolition of nuclear weapons, economic diversification, and protection of the environment.
		Non-profit organization whose goal is to provide information and example of the culture of peace to the citizens of the earth who seek to realize the ideals of "Love for the Earth and Love for Humanity." Declaration of Humanity, projects, and articles.
	dirs.org /dir-wiki.cfm/Top/Society/Issues/Peace (1861 words)

	Peace_symbol
		A peace symbol is a representation or object that has come to symbolize peace.
		The peace symbol (☮) was designed and completed February 21 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain.
		The V-sign is a hand gesture often used as a peace symbol.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Peace_symbol (437 words)

	ipedia.com: Japanese Peace Bell Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Japanese Peace Bell was a gift of the people of Japan to the United Nations on June 8, 1954.
		The bell is 0.6 m in diameter at the base.
		The bell was tolled on October 4, 1966 (The Feast Day of St. Francis; marked a one year anniversary of Pope Paul VI's visit to the United Nations).
	www.ipedia.com /japanese_peace_bell.html (459 words)

	Japanese Peace Bell
		The Japanese Peace Bell was presented to the United Nations in June 1954 by the United Nations Association of Japan.
		It has become a tradition to ring the bell twice a year: on the first day of Spring, at the Vernal Equinox, and on 21 September to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly.
		In 1994, there was a special ceremony marking the fortieth anniversary of the Japanese Peace Bell.
	www.un.org /Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/untour/subjap.htm (154 words)

	The World Peace Bell created by The Verdin Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The World's Largest Swinging Bell, "The World Peace Bell", was created by The Verdin Company, installed at The Millennium Monument site in Newport, Kentucky and swings everyday at noon.
		As inventors of the first American electric bell ringer in 1927, Verdin expertise and engineering was used to build this fantastic striker and swinger to ring the bell.
		The World Peace Bell was cast by the Verdin team in Nantes France, at Fonderie de l'Atlantique, on
	www.worldpeacebell.com (114 words)

	Cyberschoolbus: Earth Day 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Representatives from the Executive Office of Secretary-General, specialized UN agencies, Member States, intergovernmental organizations, the press, and non-governmental organizations will be present to participate in the Japanese Peace Bell ceremony at UN Headquarters at 1:49 am on 20 March, 2004.
		Artists Embassy International, which promotes peace through the arts, will be ringing peace bells on Friday, 19 March, when the equinox occurs on the West Coast, as well as on 20 March.
		“The bell weighs 66,000 pounds [and] was cast in Nantes, France,” according to Brian Plunkett of the World Peace Bell Center.
	www.cyberschoolbus.un.org /earthday/peacebell2004_us.asp (233 words)

	Peace biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peacemakers (#) are people who have overcome entrenched violence and conflict through their leadership and vision to achieve peace.
		Here is a partial list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates whose award is still considered by some a matter of particular controversy:
		From Henry Timrod, known as The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy, who wrote passionate poems that caused many young men to enlist in the Confederate Army of the American Civil War.
	peace.biography.ms (257 words)

	Cyberschoolbus: Earth Day 2004
		The Japanese Peace Bell at UN Headquarters in New York will ring at exactly 1:49 AM (EST) on Saturday, 20 March to mark the precise moment that spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
		Join Pumped Up for Peace, a new project sponsored by the UN Cyberschoolbus that is helping a community in the Amazon rainforest whose water supply has become contaminated.
		Play the recording of the UN Peace Bell at the exact moment of the vernal equinox where you live.
	cyberschoolbus.un.org /earthday/peacebell_2004.asp (561 words)

	Peace One Day: 21 September (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Concert of Peace The main objective is to gather together the young people, to bring them to accept and to tolerate each other, then make sensitive the government and politicians not to use any more the innocents in the fulfilment of their Machiavellian intentions.
		To all peace soldiers using the only weapon they know – unconditional love spouting out of the hearts, to all those that peace is in their heart and determinedly walking on the path until peace prevail on earth.
		I've created peace in the relationship between their mum and me already and on Sat 20th I'm going to show them both this website; going to talk about how we made peace between us, how great that feels, what it takes to do it and what it creates for us as a family.
	www.peaceoneday.org /page/2003 (14117 words)

	Fast for Peace
		Fast for Peace in Chechnya will begin in Geneva from 2nd of April, Monday, and continue throughout the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
		The right to peace and the right to life of every individual are the most fundamental human rights, to which no State is superior.
		The Russian All-national Committee "For ceasing war and establishing peace in the Chechen Republic", founded in the beginning of this year, made an appeal to President Putin and President Maskhadov, calling for an immediate cease-fire and political dialogue.
	tchetchenieparis.free.fr /text/terasawa.htm (2229 words)

	Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail that, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
		Henry Timrod, known as The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy wrote passionate poems that caused many young men to enlist in the Confederate Army of the American Civil War.
		But after seeing for himself the horrors of war, he wrote this poignant prayer for peace:
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pe/Peace.htm (185 words)

	Japan Information for US and English Speaking Visitors
		When Japanese write stories about the women of Japan, mother is once seen as a central character - a giver, breeder, a certain symbol of mercy.
		I feel that the Japanese culture is much better at mimicking a taught action than Westerners, and therefore, there is less tendency in Japan for students to look, question, re-interpret, and then perform their version of what they saw.
		Some reasons are; the difficulty in getting the raw materials such as Japanese lacquer, wood, and potter's clay, mass production and mass consumption brought about by technical innovation has accelerated the spread of disposable low-cost products, and the change in Japan's economic structure which has brought about a change in people's lifestyle.
	www.japan-101.com (1199 words)

	U.N. chief calls for 'millennium of hope and peace' ahead of summit [Free Republic]
		UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Three strong, clear tolls from the U.N.'s Japanese Peace Bell marked the opening of the world body's Millennium Summit of world leaders on Tuesday, the largest such gathering in recorded history.
		More than 150 heads of state -- kings, generals, presidents and prime ministers -- were convening in New York for the summit, which begins officially on Wednesday and is expected to end on Friday with a declaration committing the global leaders to eradicating poverty, promoting education and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
		Annan said those who were committed to peace were obliged "to look to past, present and even more to the future" to find the tools necessary to fulfill the United Nations' purpose.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39b5b653453e.htm (651 words)

	Learn more about Peace in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Learn more about Peace in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		Martin Luther King, Jr wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail that, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pe/peace.html (208 words)

	Original Artwork: Chris Calle: Japanese Peace Bell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Japanese Peace Bell was offered as a gift from the people of Japan to the United Nations on June, 8, 1954.
		The metal in the bell was obtained from coins donated by the delegates of the 60 nations attending the 13th General Conference of U.N. Associations held in Paris in 1951.
		The bell is enshrined in a cypress wood structure, very much like a Shinto shrine.
	www.fleetwoodspecials.com /EB5TBXMG.htm (267 words)

	Roots of Peace—Press Release: March 5, 2004
		The money was raised through a penny drive, Pennies for Peace: Making Change Work, spearheaded by the non-profit Roots of Peace, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing funds for eradicating landmines worldwide and rehabilitating mine-affected land to make it productive once more.
		Nane Annan, wife of the UN Secretary-General, greeted the children on the grounds of the United Nations next to the Japanese Peace Bell because of its symbolic value: it had been cast from the metal of coins collected by children from more than 60 countries.
		Heidi Kühn at Roots of Peace at 1-415 455-8884, e-mail: heidi@rootsofpeace.org.
	www.rootsofpeace.org /press/030504.htm (324 words)

	Groundspeak Travel Bug Details
		Now, in this time of war and uncertainty, the Bell is ready for a mission: to hop from cache to cache spreading a simple message of peace to all.
		Its ultimate goal is to return to Japan and have its picture taken in front of the Peace Bell in Hiroshima (as well as any other sites in Japan) before returning home to the Madbury Egg cache in New Hampshire, USA.
		Have a special mission for this peace bell from Japan when I deposit it in the next cache.
	www.geocaching.com /track/details.aspx?id=18560 (850 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Yesterday, a replica of Hiroshima's Peace Bell rang again and again at Honolulu's Izumo Taishakyo Mission, reminding people here that the responsibility for world peace lies with all.
		The messages delivered at the gathering were the same: "Let peace begin with me," said the Rev. Julia McKenna-Dubin of the Ministry for Divine Harmony.
		Elementary-age children from the Honolulu YMCA hung 1,000 folded paper cranes from the bell as symbols of peace and hope.
	starbulletin.com /98/08/07/news/story3.html (458 words)

	Time for Kids \| Magazines \| 190 World Leaders, All in One Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Three loud tolls from a large Japanese peace bell rang open the United Nations Millennium Summit last Tuesday.
		Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and generals met to reflect on an important goal: helping the world’s poor.
		At the end, the leaders signed a document promising to cut poverty, protect the planet and help the U.N. keep peace.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/magazines/printout/0,12479,54390,00.html (170 words)

	Bridges of Peace - Koffi Annan, Muhammed Ali, Peace Bell, History Channel!
		Peace Bell Ceremony at the UN with Messengers of Peace, Michael Douglas and Muhammad Ali as well as 400 students.
		The Secretary-General will ring the Japanese Peace Bell in observance of the International Day of Peace.
		The following Messengers of Peace, as well as 400 middle and high school students bearing the flags of Member States, will participate in the peace bell ceremony.
	www.bridgepeace.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=113 (233 words)

	A Hunger Strike for Peace in Chechnya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In connection with the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, an interfaith group will begin holding a hunger strike and prayer vigil in front of the Palace of Nations (or at the Japanese Peace Bell on the hill near the Palace of Nations).
		This is a tragedy not only for the Chechen people now living on the brink of extinction, but also for the newly-emerging democracy in Russia and for the possibility of replacing the Cold War with a new peace.
		If it is Auschwitz and Hiroshima that remind us of the war crimes of the 20th century, then today, at the beginning of the 21st, Chechnya and Grozny stand as the disgraceful monuments to our shared guilt and indifference.
	www.idee.org /hungerstrike.html (575 words)

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