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15 unusual facts about Mother Teresa


Astro Boy

Astro Boy (along with some of his supporting characters) appear in a series of "edu-manga" that tell biographies of famous personalities such as Helen Keller, Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa.

Blake LeVine

As a child, he was featured on Entertainment Tonight, Maury Povich, The Jon Stewart Show, CNN, The New York Post, Premiere Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and numerous radio programs about his experiences collecting autographs from celebrities including Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, Brad Pitt, Frank Sinatra and over 1,000 notables.

Budapest-Bamako

The team that performs the most outstanding charity work receives the Mother Teresa Charity Award.

Cécile Pelous

After writing a letter to Mother Teresa and receiving a reply welcominer her help, Pelous went to Calcutta where she worked with lepers, then to Nepal where she built a home for orphans.

Contagion heuristic

The perception of essence-transfer extends to rituals to purify items viewed as spiritually contaminated, such as having Mother Teresa wear Hitler's sweater to counteract his essence.

I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto

Mother Teresa is seen getting on a bus, and already on the bus are Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King Jr., a Black Panther Party member, and Elvis Presley.

Indian locomotive class WAG-7

On 3rd Aug. 1992, the first WAG-7 locomotive was inaugurated and christened the name 'SHANTIDAN' in honor of Mother Teresa.

Madhiha Hassan al-Mosuwi

Madeeha Hasan Odhaib (born Madhiha Hassan al-Mosuwi) is an aid worker for the Iraqi government who some people have begun calling as the "Mother Teresa of Baghdad."

Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor

The films end scene sees Mother Teresa travelling to Oslo, Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Neiphiu Rio

He was awarded The Mother Teresa Millennium award, for his outstanding leadership and contributions tp politics in Kolkata in the year 2007.

Nora Bennis

Bennis began her activism after going to a 1990 conference in Brighton hoping to hear Mother Teresa, who did not attend.

Orfeo Bartolini

Bartolini left his home in Rimini, Italy on March 17, 2003 and set out on by motorcycle for India, where he planned to visit the tomb of Mother Teresa.

Prayikkara

Mother Teresa Trophy Boat Race is held along the stretch on the River Achankovil

St Matthew Academy

St Matthew Academy has three Houses: Romero, Teresa and Mandela, named after Archbishop Oscar Romero, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Nelson Mandela.

Trifun Kostovski

Donations for important activities and buildings in Skopje (street “Vodnjanska”, quay “November 13th”, boulevard “Marx and Engels”, monument of Mother Teresa, infrastructure in several schools, gymnasiums, faculties and villages) and in other cities in the country.


Annie Skau Berntsen

A December 29, 1975 TIME cover story named her as one of the world's "living saints" in a list that included Mother Teresa, Schwester Selma, Dom Hélder Câmara, and Father Matta El Meskeen.

Dolores Huerta

That same year, Ladies' Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi.

Donald Nicholl

In addition to his academic pursuits Donald Nicholl taught church history to the Poor Clares in Aptos, California and to novices in the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's order, in London.

Fredrik Heffermehl

Among the laureates perceived by Heffermehl as illegal are the more controversial laureates, such as Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (1973) and Arafat, Peres and Rabin (1994), but also less controversial ones such as Mother Teresa (1979) and Elie Wiesel (1986).

Genrikh Borovik

His educational program The Will of the 20th Century, in which the writer and journalist described his meetings with prominent people of the 20th century, such as Alexander Kerensky, Ernest Hemingway, Kim Philby, Konstantin Simonov, Graham Greene, Walter Cronkite, Mother Teresa and others, was highly praised by audiences and critics, and constantly enjoyed the highest rating among the programs on Culture.

Jesus Hates Zombies

Along the way he comes across various friends including Mother Teresa, Elvis Presley, a stripper named King, and a time traveling Abraham Lincoln, who brings his own problem along.

Kantilal Jivan

He has been featured in over a hundred newspaper and magazine articles and radio and television programs from more than 30 countries, and has been visited by some of the world's best known personalities ranging from Queen Elizabeth II and Mother Teresa to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

Keeling-Puri Peace Plaza

The plaza also features ten statues of well-known peace advocates including Dr. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and John Lennon, with quotations from each pertaining to nonviolence.

Ram Chandra Pokhrel

Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa in Kathmandu.

Roy Bonisteel

In the next 22 years, Bonisteel would go on to interview Malcolm Muggeridge, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, 14th Dalai Lama, Hans Küng and many others.

Sadhvi Rithambara

Rithambara was arrested in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in April, 1995 on the charge of inciting communal passions, after giving a speech in which she called Mother Teresa a "magician" and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a "man-eater".

Shankar Pamarthy

His caricatures on prominent people like Barack Obama, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, A. R. Rahman, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Mike Tyson, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Abdul Kalam, Charlie Chaplin, Dalai Lama, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Luciano Pavarotti, Yasser Arafat, Aung San Suu Kyi etc., received wide accolades and prominence to him.

Sunil Hettiarachchi

He has also acted in International productions filmed in Sri Lanka like The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) and Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (both 1997).

The Irresistible Revolution

Claiborne's writing style relies heavily on personal anecdotes and quotations from Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., theologians and writers such as Walter Wink, John Howard Yoder, Francis of Assisi, and C.S. Lewis, as well as The Bible.

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

The book was re-issued in 2012 by Atlantic Books and Twelve Books along with two other short polemics by Hitchens, The Missionary Position, an attack on the status and celebrity of Mother Teresa, and No One Left to Lie To, a criticism of the political manoeuvring and personal character of President Bill Clinton.

U Thant Peace Award

It had been bestowed by The Peace Meditation at the United Nations upon Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Kurt Waldheim the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Dada J.P. Vaswani, Swami Satchidananda and U Thant’s daughter, Daw Aye Aye Thant.