Peace Monuments Based on Plaques </head> <body>  <center>Please email your comments & questions to <b>geovisual @ comcast.net</b>. Thank you.</center> <blockquote><blockquote><TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.villageengraving.com/images/plaque_gallery.jpg" width="160" height="100"> <img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="145" height="120"> </center></td><td><b><h1>Peace Markers & Plaques</h1></b></table></blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Markers & plaques are often difficult to date. <p><a href="http://peace.maripo.com/p_us_canada.htm">Click here</a> for Kiwanis "Unfortified Border" markers on Unied States/Canada border. <P>SEARCH AM_INDIANS. SEARCH UK. SEARCH LARGE STATES. UPDATE P_TYPES.HTM. <p>Right click any image to enlarge. </table><table border=2> <TR><td><center> <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Fountain_of_the_charity-Statue_of_Peace_plaque.JPG" width="118" height="83" border="1"> <img src="http://www.jeronimobraga.com.pt/upload/imgs/imgcont/Santuario%20do%20Bom%20Jesus%20do%20Monte%20%28Braga%29.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"></center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/PORT0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1760's?</b> - Plaque in statue of peace, Fountain of the charity, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bom_Jesus_do_Monte">Santuário do Bom Jesus do Monte</a>, Tenões, Braga (Portugal). Text: "<i>PAX. Pax fratribus et charitas cum fide. RPH. G. 21</i>" / "PEACE. Peace to the brothers and love with faith" [Google translation]. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.american-architecture.info/USA/USA-Washington/007-Wash%20Mon%20flags%20&%20cherries%20(good).jpg" width="90" height="130"><br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><center><b>O<br>B<br>E<br>L<br>I<br>S<br>K</b></center></td><td><center><b>P<br>L<br>A<br>Q<br>U<br>E<br>S</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/DC.png" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>February 21, 1885</b> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument">Washington Monument</a>, The Mall, Washington, DC (USA). Construction began in 1845. 555 feet tall. <b style="color:red">World's tallest obelisk.</b> <b style="color:red">World's tallest masonry structure.</b> Exterior is plain, but interior stairway (no longer accessible to public) contains 193 plaques from every state & from many foreign countries. (One plaque is said to have been donated by the pope but was ripped out & trashed by US soldiers.). <br><img src="http://www.wamocompetition.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/WAMO-WEB-TOPO-FINAL2-LOW-Plan-of-Grounds-082710.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Worlds_tallest_buildings%2C_1884.jpg/800px-Worlds_tallest_buildings%2C_1884.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://joeorgren.com/dc2/monument_cleaning_stones.jpg" width="120" height="85"><br> <img src="http://mristanblue.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/aldulmecidwashingtonmonument.png?w=345&h=240" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab260/HolyBurrito/Americas%20Foundation/MEM_PLAK_FREE_PRESS_METHOD_CHRCH_IN.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://www.nps.gov/kewe/historyculture/images/washington-monument-plaque.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T3LYMtLzk8Y/TcguVQHn6cI/AAAAAAAAAuE/MZS08_bGbcM/s1600/IMG_0532.JPG" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://joeorgren.com/dc2/monument_interior_plaque.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Washington_Monument_Deseret_Stone_in_2000.jpg/800px-Washington_Monument_Deseret_Stone_in_2000.jpg" width="120" height="85">  </center> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Rush-Bagot-treaty-marker.jpg/666px-Rush-Bagot-treaty-marker.jpg" width="100" height="85"><br><img src-"http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R<br>K<br>E<br>R</center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/DC.png" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>April 29, 1935</b> - Rush-Bagot Memorial Tablet, Columbia Residences (former Columbia Hospital for Women), 2425 L Street, NW, Washington, DC (USA). Marks place where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush-Bagot_Treaty">Rush-Bagot agreement</a> was signed April 18-19, 1817, to bring about the removal of armed vessels from the Great Lakes. Erected by Kiwanis International. <i>Entry #1162 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).</i> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CANA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank_with_text.gif" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/UT.png" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>1931</b> - <a href="http://history.utah.gov/apps/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=1434">Historical Marker</a>, Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association, Southwestern shore of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Lake_(Utah)">Fish Lake</a>, Sevier County, Utah (USA). Text: "PEACE TREATY WITH FISH LAKE INDIANS Was Made Here June 14, 1873 This treaty led up to the final treaty at Cedar Grove in Grass Valley July 1, 1873, ending the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_Black_Hawk_War">Black Hawk Indian War</a> in Southern Utah. Present at the treaty council were: <a href="http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/WPace.html">Gen. Wm. B. Pace</a> [1832-1907] George Evans Byron Pace Albert Thurber William Jex E.R. Bean G.W. Bean Abraham Halliday Wm. Robinson <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabiona,_Utah">Chief Tabiona</a> and 15 others." This treaty has never been broken. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/a6aa0813-f345-461d-a1dd-798299e16a33.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/UT.png" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>September 1939</b> - Historical Marker #50, <a href="http://www.dupinternational.org/">Daughters of Utah Pioneers</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_City,_Utah">Heber City</a>, Wasatch County, Utah (USA). Text: "INDIAN PEACE TREATY. Beautiful Provo Valley, named from River and once Chief Walker's hunting ground. Was colonized 1859-60 by 18 families called by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young">Brigham Young</a> [1801-1877]. 1864 Indian troubles forced pioneers to build fort at Heber. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_S._Murdock">Bishop Jos. S. Murdock</a> [1822-1899] friendly with the Indians, invited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabiona,_Utah">Chief Tabby</a> and tribe to his home (3 BLKs 1.1 E) Aug. 20, 1867, where peace treaty was signed and barbecue held on John Carroll's lot. This ended Indian depredations in this valley, proving Brigham Young's statement - 'It's better to feed the Indians than to fight them.' Wasatch County Camps." </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.therestorationmovement.com/images/Burritt%20College%2002.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://www.therestorationmovement.com/images/burritt,bldg,01b.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"> </center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A</br>R<br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1848</b> - <a href="http://www.therestorationmovement.com/burritt.htm">Burritt College</a>, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee (USA). Closed in 1939, but ruins still visible. "Founders chose the name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Burritt">Ehihu Burritt</a> [1810-1879] to affix to their school because they admired the initiative, perseverance, and determination which characterized Burritt's rise to national prominence. While there was not an overwhelming amount of <b>pacifistic sentiment</b> within the Church of Christ, there was nevertheless a sufficient amount for the small band of Christians in the isolated village of Spencer, Tennessee, to know of the life and work of <b style="color:red">one of the outstanding leaders in the peace movement</b>. Generally the Church of Christ followed the pattern set by other religious groups in questions such as war and slavery." </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Henning_Alex_Haley_Historic_Marker.jpg/794px-Henning_Alex_Haley_Historic_Marker.jpg" width="120" height="85">  <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="3"><br><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/haleya.jpg"120" height="85"></center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R</br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center> </td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1978</b> - <a href="http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=H005">Alex Haley Boyhood Home & Museum</a> (Alex Haley State Historic Site), 200 South Church Street, Henning, Tennessee (USA). "Built in 1919 by Will E. Palmer, the maternal grandfather of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley">Alex Haley</a> [1921-1992]. From 1921 to 1929, & during some subsequent summers, Haley lived here with his grandparents. It was on the porch of this house that Haley heard from his grandmother the family stories that inspired him to write <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family"><i>Roots: The Saga of an Amerian Family</i></a>, retelling tales of his African ancestors who were brought to America as slaves. The work won him the 1976 Pulitzer Prize, and the book was presented in an eight- part television adaptation in 1977. Haley is buried on the grounds" (lower left image). New <a href="http://www.anfa.com/project.aspx?id=116&cat=7&o=">interpretive center</a> (lower right image) was opened in 2008. </td><td> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Henning_Alex_Haley_Home_and_Memorial.jpg" width="120" height="85">  <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="5"> <br><img src="http://www.anfa.com/project_images/web_anfa06.jpg" width="120" height="85">  </center> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/log/ce20a7e0-2d73-4337-94db-ebe1b7f8b252.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1370/2519/1600/peace-park.jpg" width="120" height="85"><br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"> </center></td><td><center><b>P<br>A</br>R<br>K</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/KY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>Circa 1908</b> - "Peace Park," Hopkinsville, Kentucky (USA). Bequest by Hopkinsville native <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE1D6143DE733A2575AC1A96E9C946897D6CF">John C. Latham</a> [1845-1908] of New York, whose large tobacco warehouse on this site was destroyed by disgruntled tobacco growers (Night Raiders) on December 8, 1907. Identified by <a href="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/log/ce20a7e0-2d73-4337-94db-ebe1b7f8b252.jpg">Kentucky state historical marker</a>. <a href="http://peace.maripo.com/p_parks.htm">Click here</a> for web page showing showing this to be <b style="color:red">one of the earliest peace parks anywhere in the world</b>. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3837596198_c9e43e70b2.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R</br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>Date?</b> - "First Abolitionist Publications" marker, Jonesborough, Tennessee (USA). Honors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Embree">Elihu Embree</a> [1782-1820] who published the <b style="color:red">first newspaper in the USA dedicated entirely to the abolition of slavery</b>. His home on Walker's Mill Road SW of Telford, Tennessee (image at right), was a hiding place for runaway slaves. See "The Emancipator," Embreeville Publications, Jonesborough (1995), which contains issues of Embree's paper. NB: He died at age 38.</td><td><img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/1aa22008-c670-43f8-a225-6a1b8af560a6.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/7650575.jpg" width="80" height="85">  <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>Date?</b> - <a href="">Blue Plaque for Edith Cavell</a>, Cavell House, 1 Elton Road, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevedon">Clevedon</a>, North Somerset BS21 7RA (England). House is now a Bed & Breakfast. <TD><center> <img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/7619144.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"><b>Date?</b> - <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7619144">Edith Cavell Memorial Plaque</a>, St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria (Australia). Depicts German firing squad executing Nurse Edith Cavell. <TD><center> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/153289570_fbe023ff9f.jpg" width="75" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>Date?</b> - <a href="http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Northamptonshire/PeterboroughEdithCavell.html">Edith Cavell War Memorial<a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Cathedral">Peterborough Cathedral</a>, Cambridgeshire (England). "Placed here by the Teachers Pupils and Friends of her old school in Laurel Court." </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0954/sap01_mh098707_v.jpg" width="75" height="90"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/FRAN0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>June 13, 1920</b> - <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01E0DA133AE03ABC4B52DFB066838B639EDE"><i>Monument de Miss Edith Cavell</i></a>, Tuileries, Paris (France). "In Paris' Tuileries there is a beautiful sculpture of her." <a href="http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Cavell/Cavell_15.jpg">Click here</a> to see four proposed monuments. Date from New York Times. <TD><center> <img src="http://www.ruthard.ca/art/university/italocanadese.JPG" width="75" height="85">  </center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CANA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CANA0110.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1922</b> - <a href="">Edith Cavell Memorial</a>, Toronto General Hospital, University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario (Canada). By Florence Wyle. Inscribed, "Edith Kavell [sic] and the Canadian nurses who gave their lives for humanity in the Great War. In the midst of darkness they saw light. Lest we forget."  </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/447120-r1-005-1.jpg" width="120" height="85">  </center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/OH.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1930's</b> - <a href=""><i>"Swords Into Plowshares,"</i></a> Klassen Court, Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio (USA). Bronze plaque by <a href="http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2008spring/klassen.php">John Peter Klassen</a> [1888-1975]. Based on <i>Issiah 2:4</i>: </b>"They shall beat their swords into plowshares."</b> Photo by EWL. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><td><img src="http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=362&ptp_photo_id=memphiscom:5326601&size=420x300_mb&re=1&m=1217451279.0" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1950's</b> - Nashoba Marker, Germantown, near Memphis, Tennessee (USA). The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba_Commune">Nashoba Commune</a> was founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Wright">Frances (Fanny) Wright</a> [1795-1852], "a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist & social reformer, who became a US citizen in 1825, the same year she founded Nashoba as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, intending to create an egalitarian place, but it lasted only three years." </td><TD><center> <img src="http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2008/196/23549227_121616624286.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <img src="http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2008/196/23549227_121616628535.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="210" height="0"> </a></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/OH.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>After 1852</b> - <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23549227">Grave of Frances Wright</a>, Spring Grove Cemetery, 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton County Ohio 45232 (USA). "Wright's 'Views of Society & Manners in America' (1821) brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation." Fanny did many remarkable things: She visited Monticello with the Marquis de Lafayette, lived in New Harmony, Indiana, lectured in New York City, published a newspaper in Cincinatti, freed slaves in Haiti, bore one child out of wedlock & lived at La Grange, LaFayette's estate near Paris (France). </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorials/peace/london/Xpeace_pict/ximages/paque.jpg" width="75" height="110"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>January 3, 1959</b> - <a href="http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorials/peace/co_plaque.html">Conscientious Objectors Memorial Plaque</a>, Peace Pledge Union (PPU), 1 Peace Passage, London (England). Names 70 of the 81 British CO's known to have died during World War I. Depicts a man striking a sword on an anvil. Carved by Canadian artist <a href="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/war-artists/popups/bio_pu_stevens.aspx">Dorothy Stevens</a> [1888-1966] in 1923. (Click <a href="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/war-artists/big/big_06_factory.aspx">here</a> to see her "Munitions Fuze Factory, 1919.") First erected in Berlin (Germany) at the headquarters of the <i>Bund der Kriegsdienstgegner</i>, the German section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Resisters'_International">War Resisters International</a> (WRI),. Taken to south Denmark in 1933. Hidden in Sweden in 1940. Now on permanent loan to the PPU, principal British section of the WRI. <i>One of 21 peace monuments named by the <a href="http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorials/peace/index_peace.html">PPU website</a>.</i> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CANA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/DENM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/SWDN0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="https://iancalle.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/moon_plaque.jpg" width="118" height="83" border="1""> <img src="http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/space_level2/apollo11_plaque_big.gif" width="85" height="95"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="210" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images_flags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>July 1969</b> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_plaque">Apollo 11 plaque</a> on the Moon. Text: "Here man from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. <b>We came in peace for all mankind.</b>" Signed by three astronauts & President Richard Nixon. "Stainless steel commemorative plaques measuring 9 by 7 5/8 inches (22.9 by 19.4 cm) were attached to the ladders on the descent stages of the US Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface." </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://info.detnews.com/dn/history/bunche/images/13.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R<br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MI.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>April 27, 1972</b> - Birthplace of Ralph Bunche, Detroit, Michigan (USA). Where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bunche">Ralph Buche</a> [1903-1971] was born on August 7, 1904. Listed as a Michigan Historic Site on February 11, 1972. Mrs. Bunche was present for the unveiling of a <b>historical marker</b> on April 27, 1972 (image). Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. <img src="http://spaceformusic.com/symposium2000/images/nobelcoin.jpg" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.whateverproductions.us/ExplorePA/LMottS.jpg" width="120" height="85"></a></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/PA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>May 1974</b> - <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:h-yvUPPeABYJ:www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php%3FmarkerId%3D288+pennsylvania+marker+%22lucretia+mott%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us">Lucretia C. Mott historical marker</a>, Pennsylvania highway 611 north of Cheltenham Avenue, Elkins Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (USA). Text: "Nearby stood 'Roadside," the home of the ardent Quakeress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott">Lucretia C. Mott</a> [1793-1880]. Her most notable work was in connection with antislavery women's rights, temperance and peace." Said to be the most important woman abolitionist in America. <img src="http://www.sne.org/conference/images/QuakerUSLogo_000.gif" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/a94677c6-2906-4149-8460-536170cbd67c.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R</br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1976</b> - <a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM8TT">"United Nations Visit to Nashville"</a> (historical marker), Nashville, Tennessee (USA). Text: "On June 7, 1976, 101 permanent representatives of the UN made a <b style="color:red">historic and unprecedented group visit to Nashville...</b> [They] attended a forum at nearby Vanberbilt University, a special Tennessee luncheon in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Park_(Nashville)">Centennial Park</a>, and a special performance of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry">Grand Ole Opry</a>. UN Secretary-General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim">Kurt Waldheim</a> [1918-2007] was presented the Cordell Hull Peace award [sic]... Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. No. 70. Erected 1976." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell_Hull">Cordell Hull</a> [1871-1955] received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. President Roosevelt called Hull the "Father of the UN." <a href="http://peace.maripo.com/p_nobel.htm">Click here</a> for monuments related to all Nobel Peace Prize laureates. <a href="http://peace.maripo.com/p_un.htm">Click here</a> for monuments related to the United Nations. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNNA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://spaceformusic.com/symposium2000/images/nobelcoin.jpg" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center>  <img src="http://plogger.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/aaaa0043.JPG" width="120" height="100"> </center> </td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/PA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>September 18, 1976</b> - <a href="http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=41">Historical Marker</a>, Penn Treaty Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). Marker Text <b>"Traditional site of a treaty between William Penn and the Indians, this park is maintained by the City of Philadelphia in commemoration of the Proprietor's peaceful relations with the Indians."</b> Also see 1682 (tree), 1827 (obelisk), 1893 (park), 1982 (statue) & 2010 (tree). <img src="http://www.sne.org/conference/images/QuakerUSLogo_000.gif" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Woodstock_poster.jpg/220px-Woodstock_poster.jpg" width="85" height="120"><p><img src="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ny/NYBETwoodstock_mw6003_620x300.jpg" width="150" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images_flags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1984</b> - <b>"Peace And Music,"</b> Bethel, Sullivan County, New York (USA). 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock in adjoining Ulster County. Plaque marking site of 1969 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock">Woodstock Music Fesitival</a> (originally billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music"). "The field & the stage area remain preserved in their rural setting & the fields of the Yasgur farm are still visited by people of all generations. In 1996, the site of the concert and 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) surrounding was purchased by cable television pioneer Alan Gerry for the purpose of creating the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The Center opened on July 1, 2006, with a performance by the New York Philharmonic. On August 13, 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed before 16,000 fans at the new Center—37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock. The Museum at Bethel Woods opened on June 2, 2008. The Museum contains film & interactive displays, text panels, and artifacts that explore the unique experience of the Woodstock festival, its significance as the <b>culminating event of a decade of radical cultural transformation</b>, and the legacy of the Sixties & Woodstock today. The ashes of the late Richie Havens were scattered across the site on August 18, 2013. In late 2016 New York's State Historic Preservation Office applied to the National Park Service to have 600 acres (240 ha) including the site of the festival & adjacent areas used for campgrounds, all of which still appear mostly as they did in 1969 as they were not redeveloped when Bethel Woods was built, listed on the National Register of Historic Places." </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/145513346_2a55534305.jpg?v=0" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>1986</b> - Blue Plaque for Mahatma Gandhi, 20 Baron's Court Road, Hammersmith & Fulham, London W14 (England). Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) lived here as a law student in the 1880's. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uWHXbyamDI4/R09kmvchAVI/AAAAAAAABBI/aqSZnKyri_8/s1600-R/Lennon.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>April 13, 1987</b> - <a href="http://earfarm.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html">Plaque in honor of John Lennon</a>, at the Peace Fountain, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, New York (USA). Text: <b>"Some may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one."</b> From the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/59a294fe-435a-4497-81d7-3d60b538fbeb_d.JPG" width="120" height="85">  </center></td><td> <img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images_flags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1995</b> - "Votes for Women," Tennessee historical marker NHC 94, Capitol Boulevard at Union Street, Nashville, Tennessee (USA). Text: " VOTES FOR WOMEN. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the <b>36th [& last]state to ratify the 19th Amendment</b> to the US Constitution, thereby giving all American women the right to vote. After weeks of intense lobbying by national leaders, Tennessee passed the measure by one vote. The headquarters for both suffragists, wearing yellow roses, & anti-suffragists, wearing red roses, were in the Hermitage Hotel. Donamed in mrmory of Carleen B. Waller. The Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. No. 94. Erected 1995." /// PS: Carleen Batson Waller was a Nashville leader interested in public housing. She died in 1991. Commemorative plaque at right is probably at the Carleen Batson Waller Manor home for the elderly.</td><td><img src="https://thumbs.frmonline.com/imgs/fr/propertyFiles/274/067/1000/resized/08_13446316020655288052002938000A020.jpg" width="180" height="85"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.whateverproductions.us/ExplorePA/CivPubSvc.jpg" width="120" height="85"></a></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/PA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>October 26, 1996</b> - <a href="http://www.pym.org/exhibit/p0123.html">Civilian Public Service historical marker</a>, <a href="http://www.friendscentercorp.org/about/aboutFriendsCenter.php?Section=About">Friends Center</a>, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). "Commissioned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission." Honors "some 12,000 men who were classified as <b>conscientious objectors to war</b>...during World War II." <img src="http://www.sne.org/conference/images/QuakerUSLogo_000.gif" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.whateverproductions.us/ExplorePA/AFS_P.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center> </td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/PA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>November 6, 1999</b> - <a href="http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&PageID=300886&level=3&css=L3&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true">Historical Marker honoring the American Friends Service Committee</a> (AFSC), <a href="http://www.friendscentercorp.org/about/aboutFriendsCenter.php?Section=About">Friends Center</a>, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). The AFSC and the Friends Service Council (UK) shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. <a href="http://pickettendowment.quaker.org/about.php">Clarence Pickett</a> [1884-1965] accepted the prize on behalf of the AFSC. <img src="http://www.sne.org/conference/images/QuakerUSLogo_000.gif" width="22" height="22"> <img src="http://spaceformusic.com/symposium2000/images/nobelcoin.jpg" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center><img src=" http://www.alipso.com/php/alesatz/Casa%20de%20Bertrand%20Russell.JPG" width="85" height="95"><br><img src-"http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><center><b>P<br>L</br>A<br>Q<br>U<br>E</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>2002</b> - Blue Plaque for Bertrand Russell, 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Place, London WC1 (England). Russell lived here in flat no.34, 1911-1916. <TD><center> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4537171385_476ef8b618.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><center><b>B<br>U</br>S<br>T</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>1980</b> - <a href="http://www.kingsleyhall.co.uk/">Bust of Bertrand Russell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Square">Red Lion Square</a>, London WC1 (England). Sculpted by Marcelle Quinton. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> [1872-1970] received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. <i>One of 21 peace monuments named by the <a href="http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorials/peace/index_peace.html">PPU website</a>.</i> <i>Named in "A Peace Trail Through London" by Valerie Flessati (1998).</i> <i>One of 309 London monuments in <a hef="http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/londons-monuments-159797/">Kershman (2007)</a>, page 196.</i> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Berlin_plaque_Ernst_Friedrich.jpg" width="120" height="120"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>2002</b> - <i>Gedenktafel für Ernst Friedrich</i> / Memorial plaque for Ernst Friedrich, Parochialstrasse 1-3, Berlin-Mitte (Germany). <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Friedrich">Ernst Friedrich</a> [1894-1967] was an anarchist pacifist who operated the first German anti-war museum. Info courtesy of Gerard Lössbroek. <TD><center> <a href=""><img src="http://photobibliothek.ch/Photo007/Friedrich03a.jpg" width="95" height="130"></a> <a href=""><img src="http://www.anti-kriegs-museum.de/images/friedensmuseum-kaserne.jpg" width="95" height="130"></a>   <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/pax_vobiscum.jpg" width="155" height="115"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/blank.gif" width="205" height="0"></center> </td><td><center><b>M<br>U<br>S</br>E<br>U<br>M</center></td><td><center><b>B<br>O<br>A</br>T</center> </td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1925</b> - <a href="http://www.anti-kriegs-museum.de/english/start1.html"><i>Anti-Kriegs-Museum (AKM)</i> / Anti-War Museum</a> on Parochialstrasse, Berlin. Opened by anarchist & pacifist <a href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/waw.htm"> Ernst Friedrich</a> [1894-1967], whose 1924 picture book <a href="http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:MfiMhIVIt_wJ:www.thememoryhole.org/war/waw.htm+%22War+against+War!%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us">"<i>Krieg dem Kriege!</i> / War against War!"</a> documented the horrors of WW-I (upper left image). Friedrich also owned the pleasure boat "<i>Pax Vobiscum</i>" on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree">River Spree</a>. In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers (SA) destroyed the AKM and seized the "<i>Pax Vobiscum</i>." Friedrich was arrested, then emigrated to Belgium & France. In 1982 (15 years after the death of its founder), AKM was reopened by his grandson <a href="http://www.timeout.com/berlin/museums/venue/1:4391/anti-kriegs-museum">Tommy Spree</a> (sic); its current address is Brusseler Strasse 21, Berlin. Lower image of "<i>Pax Vobiscum</i>" courtesy of Peter Nias who photographed it from Friedrich's 1935 book, "<i>Von Friedens - Museum zum Hitler - Kaserne</i> / From Peace Museum to Hitler Barracks" (upper right image). <img src="http://weshallfightthemonthebeaches.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/nazi_flag.jpg" width="30" height="20"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://physicsworld.com/blog/rotblatnew%20.jpg" width=150" height="85"></a>  </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NM.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>After 2005</b> - Memorial to Joseph Rotblat</a>, in front of the Omega Peace Institute (OPI), Arkansas Avenue, North Mesa, Los Alamos, New Mexico (USA). Erected by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Grothus">Ed Grothus</a> [1923-2009]. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat">Sir Joseph Rotblat</a> [1908-2005] was a Polish-born Jew & British-naturalised physicist who worked at Los Alamos during World War II, then became the only physicist to leave the Manhattan Project on the grounds of conscience (though others later refused to work on atomic bombs after the defeat of Japan). He was secretary general of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs">Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs</a> from its founding [in 1957] until 1973. Rotblat & the Pugwash Conferences jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament." <img src="http://spaceformusic.com/symposium2000/images/nobelcoin.jpg" width="22" height="22"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.al-tn-trailoftears.net/images/registered_logo.jpg" width="85" height="85"> <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/873adfcd-69b3-4a16-a5a7-561493cc94a6.jpg" width="110" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="200" height="0"> </center></td><td><center><b>M<br>A<br>R</br>K<br>E<br>R</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>About 2006</b> - "Trail of Tears" historical marker, <a hef="http://www.tnguy.com/10496.html">Ross's Landing Park & Plaza</a>, Tennessee River, Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA). Marks the beginning of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears">Trail of Tears</a>. Labeled "Alabama-Tennessee Trail of Tears Corridor Committee" and paid for by from proceeds of the <a href="http://www.al-tn-trailoftears.net/">Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride</a>. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Blue_plaque_Joseph_Sturge.jpg/605px-Blue_plaque_Joseph_Sturge.jpg" width="85" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>March 2007</b> - Blue Plaque for Joseph Sturge, 64 Wheeleys Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham (England). <TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/Sturge_Memorial.jpg/400px-Sturge_Memorial.jpg" width="120" height="95">   <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Sturge_plaque.jpg" width="100" height="75"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="225" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>June 4, 1862</b> - <a href="http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/heritage/page11.htm">Joseph Sturge Memorial</a>, Swallow Hotel, Five Ways, Birmingham (England). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sturge">Joseph Sturge</a> [1793-1859] was a Quaker who campaigned tirelessly for peace, even visiting St. Petersburg in an attempt to avert the Crimean War. Memorial was restored & rededicated on March 24, 2007. Left image shows the memorial before & after restoration. </table><p><table border=2> <TR><td><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Blue_plaque_Thomas_Hodgkin.jpg/628px-Blue_plaque_Thomas_Hodgkin.jpg" width="85" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"></center></td><td> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>Date?</b> - Blue Plaque for Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, Bedford Square, London (England). On Hodgkin's house. <TD><center><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Jaffa_ThomasHodgkin_tomb01.jpg/800px-Jaffa_ThomasHodgkin_tomb01.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><center><b>G<br>R<br>A<br>V<br>E</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ISRA0001.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>1866</b> - Grave of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, Jaffa (Israel). "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hodgkin">Dr. Thomas Hodgkin</a> [1798-1866] "was a a pioneer in preventive medicine...best known for the first account of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%27s_disease">Hodgkin's disease</a>... He was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James Parish, Middlesex (England)... He accompanied his close friend [Jewish philanthropist] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore">Sir Moses Montefiore</a> [1784-1885] to Palestine, contracted dysentery, died on 4 April 1866, and was buried in Jaffa." /// Dr. Hodgkin was a great uncle of Quaker medical missionary <a href="http://combios.maripo.com">Henry Theodore Hodgkin</a> [1876-1933] who founded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_of_Reconciliation">Fellowship of Reconcilation</a> (FOR) in the UK 1914, founded FOR in the USA in 1915 & served as the first director of <a href="http://www.pendlehill.org/">Pendle Hill</a>, the Quaker "center for study and contemplation" in Wallingford, Pennsylvania (USA). <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/resources/images/1429555/?type=display" width="85" height="120"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td><center><b>P<br>L<br>A<br>Q<br>U<br>E</b></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="28" height="18" border="1"> <b>September 21, 2010</b> - <a href="http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8405328.Plaque_unveiled_to_promote_peace/?ref=rss">Peace Plaque</a>, New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford (England). Veteran peace campaigner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kent">>Bruce Kent</a> unveiled a plaque to promote the message of peace. The plaque reads: <b>“Peace – to honour those who seek another path in place of violence and war.”</b> David Partridge, an inter-faith worker in Oxford and retired priest, said the plaque had been a long time in the planning. Mr Partridge said: “The idea started back in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq, when lots of people around Oxford in small groups protested against the war. “We wanted to commemorate that and show people there is another way.” Mr Partridge hoped the plaque would stay there to promote peace for a long time.  </table><p><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/themonitor.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/30/f30bb110-1672-11e7-a8a5-d3ef427bdec0/58def63ee53db.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C760" width="118" height="83" border="1"></td><td> </center></td><td><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images_flags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TX.png" width="28" height="18" BORDER="1"> <b>March 31, 2017</b> - <a href="http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_c0659178-1671-11e7-90f7-1b557fa62cf5.html">Rio Grande Valley Melon Strike Marker</a>, Hidalgo County Courthouse, Edinburg, Texsas (USA) — Erected by United Farm Workers (UFW). Commemorates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers#Texas_Strike">strike & march [in 1966]</a> by some 100 fieldworkers nearly 500 miles over a two-month period from Rio Grande City to Austin, where thousands of people marched on the Capitol demanding an increase on the state minimum wage to $1.25... The original 100 marchers traveled more than 490 miles starting July 4, 1966 in Rio Grande City & ending on Labor Day, Sept. 5, in Austin. According to media reports, more than 4,000 people marched on the Capitol that day alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez">Cesar Chavez</a> [1927-1993]; union estimates are closer to 15,000 supporters demanding the wage increase." /// Man in image holds United Farm Workers (UFW) flag. Information courtesy of Susan Ives. </table></blockquote>   </TABLE></blockquote> <center>Please email your comments & questions to <b>geovisual @ comcast.net</b>. 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