In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

" War, Peace and Diamonds in Angola: Popular perceptions of the diamond industry in the Lundas ".

Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation angered both Peace Democrats (" Copperheads ") and War Democrats, but energized most Republicans.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

* 1920 – The Latvian – Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.

* Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace contains an extensive wolf hunting scene with borzoi in book 7, chapters 3 to 6.

* The 1968 film version War and Peace contains a hunting scene with borzoi from the kennel of Ekhaga, Sweden.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War ( 1987 )

Less than a year after Havana was seized, the Peace of Paris was signed by the three warring powers, ending the Seven Years ' War.

Eye Care (" see if I care "), Russian chauffeur Pikov Andropov (" pick up and drop off "), Leo Tolstoy biographer Warren Peace (" War and Peace "), and law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe (" Do we cheat ' em?

* Andrew Mack, " Civil War: Academic Research and the Policy Community ," Journal of Peace Research 39, no.

Peasants in Arms: War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979 – 1994.

During World War I, Eastman was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party, soon joined by Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, and others.

In 1411, the First Peace of Thorn ended the Polish – Lithuanian – Teutonic War, in which the Teutonic Knights fought the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The state of war between both countries which dated back from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War ended in 1979 with the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp David Accords.

* War and Peace, a version of Tolstoy's novel as giant as the original.

* 1856 – A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

During the brief Mexican venture Fosdick's report to the Secretary recommended a definite stand by the War Department against the saloon and the excesses of prostitution.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

The huge backlog of demand which was evident in the first decade and a half after the War was fed by liquid assets accumulated by the public during the War, and even more so by the easier and easier credit in the consumer loan and home loan fields.

After World War II the completely solid-body electric was popularized by Gibson in collaboration with Les Paul, and independently by Leo Fender of Fender Music.

Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attaché in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, while the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop " one of the most diverting of the Nazis ".

In April of the same year, Dr. Leo Alexander had submitted to the Counsel for War Crimes six points defining legitimate medical research.

Leo Marks describes inventing such a system for the British Special Operations Executive during World War II, though he suspected at the time that it was already known in the highly compartmentalized world of cryptography, as for instance at Bletchley Park.

* War and Peace ( 1869 ) by Leo Tolstoy

The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, when news of the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 made the subject seem all the more timely.

By the Second World War, the taste of the American avant-garde in New York City swung decisively towards Abstract Expressionism with the support of key taste makers, including Peggy Guggenheim, Leo Steinberg and Clement Greenberg.

At the same time, Thucydides ' influence was increasingly important in the area of international relations during the Cold War, through the work of Hans Morgenthau, Leo Strauss and Edward Carr.

Alexander Griboyedov satirized him in Woe from Wit, and his cousin Leo Tolstoy — who called him an " extraordinary, criminal, and attractive man " — fictionalized him as Dolokhov in War and Peace.

Whilst in the SOE, she met Leo Marks, codes officer of the SOE, who gave her what is now thought of as the definitive World War II poem code, The Life That I Have.

* Boston ( played in 19th century Europe, favored by Count Rostov in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace )

* Grebler, Leo and Winkler, Wilhelm The Cost of the World War to Germany and Austria-Hungary This study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace details the losses of Austria-Hungary and Germany in the war.

* Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace ( Part 11, Chapter I ) discusses the race of Achilles and the tortoise when critiquing " historical science ".

* Leo Tolstoy publishes War and Peace.

* Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace is published complete in book form.

* Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

* Leo Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace recounts Napoleon's wars between 1805 and 1812 ( especially the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat ) from a Russian perspective.

Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace ( 1956 ), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn ; it took two years to shoot.

* Weiss, Stuart L. The President's Man: Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in Peace and War.

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ) furnishes another 19th-century example of the romantic-historical novel as does Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.