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unusual facts about anti-war



66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Anti-clerical art

Masami Teraoka is among the contemporary painters producing anti-clerical art.

Anti-communist mass killings

In 1963, a coup in Iraq overthrew Abd al-Karim Qasim, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Hashemite Iraqi monarchy.

Battle of Hill 60

Illowra Battery otherwise known as Hill 60, is a World War II fortification, in Port Kembla, New South Wales

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Brian Schwager

The 'Ares' nickname came from his days of playing the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, where his character was called 'Ares' (also known as the Olympian God of War).

Bruce Chadwick

His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

C.E. Humphry

After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.

Caius Bruttius Praesens

He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.

Chen Duxiu

In the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the example of Chen in collaborating with Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government, leading to the ostracism of his peers and the failure of Communist policies at the time, was used by Peng Zhen as a warning never to "forgive" anti-Maoists.

Communist Action Organization in Lebanon

Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process,no that was no Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 67.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

Ed Krebs

Krebs also plays guitar, bass and organ in several reggae bands, and is the webmaster of HERB (Had Enough Religious Bullshit), a site for anti-Theocracy and anti-religious humor with particular emphasis on cartoons.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

George W. Lay

Lay was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837).

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Holborn tube station

The pre-war operation of the station and the branch line features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by enemy agents sees them repeatedly using the station's escalators, passageways and the shuttle service.

Honor Bound

Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

Italian support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war

Iraq ordered four Lupo class frigates, and six Wadi Assad class corvettes equipped with Otomat-2 anti-shipping missiles.

Kouprasith Abhay

General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.

Lithuanian resistance

Lithuanian partisans, resistance against Soviet regime after World War II

Lord Kitchener

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.

Maffett

Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

Masindi

As capital of Bunyoro, Masindi was visited by Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, from 25 April 1872 to 14 June 1873.

Nickajack Cave

Soon after the war started, the operation at Nickajack Cave was taken over by the Confederate government.

Over Here!

The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

For anti-ship duties some models were outfitted to carry one or two missiles, typically Sea Eagles or Exocets.

Stéphane Lupasco

(Lupasco unfortunately did not read English well, and hence no references to the “anti”-psychiatry of Laing and Bateson, close in spirit to his work, are to be found.)

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Sylvia Pankhurst

After the post-war liberation of Ethiopia, she became a strong supporter of union between Ethiopia and the former Italian Somaliland, and MI5's file continued to follow her activities.

Tadhg Ó Cellaigh

Rudhri was defeated, and Fedlim "plundered the officers of Ruaidri O Conchobair and seized the kingship of Connacht from Assaroe (Assaroe Falls) to Slieve Aughty himself .. and took hostages of the Clann Cellaig." Forced to submit, Tadhg now accompanied Fedlim, who switched sides and proceeded to wage war against his former allies, the Anglo-Irish of Connacht.

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

Thaddäus Haenke

The Mulovsky expedition was prevented from leaving the Baltic by the outbreak of war with Sweden in 1787.

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.

The Torrents of Greed

Stone notes to Schiff (Steven Hill) that he fears a family war, resulting in many murders.

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Urban anthropology

Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that traditional anthropologists were "a notoriously agoraphobic lot, anti-urban by definition".

Vladimir Estragon

Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

It lies at an altitude of 1,175 – 1,500 m next to the village of Burqush in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, near Mount Hermon and close to the border with Lebanon.

Wyre Piddle

It was the home village of Claude Choules, who was born in Pershore on 3 March 1901 and became the last surviving male veteran of World War I.

X-files unit

It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.

Yanks Air Museum

Aircraft displayed from the Inter-War period include the Ryan Brougham, American Eagle A-101 and Swallow TP.

Yuri Dolgorukov

Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin


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1967 Philadelphia Student Demonstrations

SAC was active in a number of demonstrations in that period, such as the Philadelphia Post Office demonstration to demand African-Americans to be hired on an equal basis, the Girard College integration marches, various civil rights marches as well as a number of anti-war marches

2011 Indiana legislative walkouts

They have occurred as recently as 2005, and as long ago as Civil War era, when at the request of Governor Oliver P. Morton, Republicans fled the capitol to prevent anti-war and pro-Confederate legislation from passing.

Anti-War Committee

The Anti-War Committee was the first organization to apply for permits and announce plans to protest at the 2008 Republican National Convention, which was held in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Anti-War Committee (AWC) is a grassroots political organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that wants to end U.S. intervention .

Babylon Circus

Their third album, Dances of Resistance, was recorded in 2003 and largely has an anti-war theme.

Beau Friedlander

The New York Times singled out two anti-war books published by the publisher that "emerged from, and then codified opposition to the war in Iraq." War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know by William Rivers Pitt was an international bestseller.

Blazing Combat

There were also problems from the armed forces (at the time a major purchaser of B&W comic magazines) ... began to refuse to sell Blazing Combat on their bases or PXs, due to its perceived 'anti-war' stance".

Blessed by Fire

A powerful Argentine anti-war film in the tradition of American Vietnam war films such as Full Metal Jacket and Coming Home, Blessed By Fire is the story of two young men who were sent to fight the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, Las Malvinas) and who return home bearing the brutal scars of war.

Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War

Harry Elmer Barnes, an American, who between World War I and World War II was a well-known anti-war writer, a leader in the historical revisionism movement and later to become a Holocaust denier, and from 1924 onwards worked closely with Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War.

Charles Blunt

The anti-war campaigner Helen Caldicott announced that she would oppose Blunt in his electorate at the next election.

Christina Tobin

While Tobin's primary focus is electoral reform and voters' rights, she is an outspoken supporter of the anti-war and marijuana legalization movements and is involved with Antiwar.com, Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Americans for Safe Access, Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), and Students for Liberty.

Commonwealth Armory

During its life, it was home to military units, a concert by The Who in October 1969, and anti-war demonstrations.

Crawford Texas Peace House

The Crawford Texas Peace House is an anti-war activist organization located in Crawford, Texas near the home of President George W. Bush.

Dale Petroskey

In April 2003, one month after the start of the Iraq War, Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey caused a furor when he canceled an event meant to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the well-known 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham because of the anti-war stance of two of its stars, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, fearing that they would use the event as a platform for their political views.

David Fine

In response to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, in which four protesters were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard, Fine, along with brother Karleton and Dwight Armstrong and Leo Burt conceived of an attack on the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, which had been a frequent site of anti-War protests.

David McReynolds

On July 10, 2004, McReynolds announced his candidacy running on the Green Party ticket for one of the New York seats in the Senate, running an anti-war campaign against Democratic incumbent Chuck Schumer, where he pulled in 36,942 votes for 0.5% of total.

Donald Duncan

Donald W. Duncan (born 1930), American soldier and anti-war activist

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Stratmann-Mertens and other anti-war activists called at a special Green Party convention in Bielefeld on 13 May 1999 for an immediate halt to the NATO bombing in the Kosovo War, but were unsuccessful getting the party to adopt the position.

Eve Tetaz

This included a Mother's Day march from the White House to Capitol Hill, which featured anti-war activist and Gold Star mother, Cindy Sheehan.

Gael Murphy

Gael Murphy, a resident of Washington, D.C., is an anti-war activist with Code Pink who has planned or participated in many of its high profile protests and activities against the Iraq war.

Hassan Butt

One of the leading figures in the anti-war movement, the British Muslim activist Anas Altikriti, has strongly criticized Butt, arguing that, "Now that he has changed sides, rather than see the error in the methodology and ideology to which he once subscribed and which he peddled for years, he has adopted the posture of extremist once again - and is hurling abuse once more, albeit from the opposite side."

Henry Dean

Henry Clay Dean, U.S. 19th century anti-war activist and clergyman

History of the Scottish Socialist Party

The SSP was active in the anti-war movement and the firefighters' dispute, and gained five additional regional list MSPs across Scotland: Frances Curran; Rosie Kane; Carolyn Leckie; Colin Fox; and Rosemary Byrne.

In the King of Prussia

The group of anti-war activists were charged with the September 1980 destruction of nose cones designed for nuclear warheads at the Re-Entry Division of the General Electric Space Technology Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Jack Warshaw

In 1966, soon after arriving in London he joined The Critics Group, the left wing folk/theatre group led by Ewan MacColl and co-founded the Stop it Committee, the UK American Anti-war Group, remaining active in both until the Critics Group split up in 1973 and the Stop it Committee disbanded after US withdrawal from Vietnam in April 1975.

Kellman

Peter Kellman (born 1945), anti-war activist, author, and American labor union leader

Keynote Records

The label's initial releases were folk and protest songs from the Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War, and several anti-war releases from American musicians followed.

Lonely Train

Additionally, a music video in black and white, giving the video a dark and gloomy feeling in combination with the aggressive manner of the song, was directed for "Lonely Train", which features the band members playing in a warehouse in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, which the band thought was an appropriate setting to reflect the song's anti-war statement.

Milan Rai

As well as being a co-ordinator of anti-war group Justice Not Vengeance, Rai is co-editor with anti-war artist Emily Johns of the London-based monthly magazine Peace News.

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Boston was the site of the largest turnout; about 100,000 attended a speech by anti-war Senator George McGovern.

Moulsecoomb

This factory has been the site of regular anti-war demonstrations since 2004 (for a full description of this campaign, see the article Criticism of EDO Corporation)

News leak

Spies for Peace, a group of anti-war activists associated with CND and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.

Paul French

Paul Comly French (1890–1956), American reporter, writer, anti-war activist and non-profit executive

Raed Jarrar

The shirts were produced by The Critical Voice, an anti-war group; the text was inspired by the German phrase Wir schweigen nicht ("We will not be silent"), the slogan of the White Rose, the "subversive" German antifascist anti-Nazi organization.

Richard Fuisz

Between 1994 and 2001, Fuisz and anti-war Susan Lindauer met weekly to discuss her diplomatic contacts in the Middle East, specifically her work related to the lifting of U.S. sanctions against Libya and Iraq.

Socialist Students

The two organisations have a joint presence on anti-war and anti-G8/climate change demonstrations, which they term the "Red Contingent".

Songs for John Doe

American Communists and "fellow travelers", including the Almanacs, followed the anti-interventionist stance dictated by the Soviet Union through the Comintern, which accounts for the appearance of anti-war songs on the album.

Soviet influence on the peace movement

Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad," and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong.

Student Christian Movement of Canada

Since its founding, SCM Canada has taken stands on pressing social issues of its time, including support for the ordination of women, opposing internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II; anti-war activities since the 1960s; and facing controversy for its solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified Christians.

Suzy Post

As part of the 1960s and 1970s anti-war movement in Louisville, made famous by the nation's best-known dissident Muhammed Ali, Suzy Post mentored and sheltered soldiers going AWOL, draft protesters and other youth who opposed the war in Vietnam.

Syed Talha Ahsan

In July 2011, an event at the Islamic Human Rights Commission took place in London to mark the fifth anniversary of Syed Talha Ahsan's imprisonment with contributions from his lawyer Gareth Peirce and veteran anti-war campaigner Bruce Kent.

The Fause Knight Upon the Road

Stephan Said recorded "The False Knight on the Road" and a version re-written as an anti-war anthem on the 2002 EP The Bell which included Pete Seeger and Tara Nevins.

The Iraq Solidarity Campaign

The Campaign also helped other US candidates in the elections, who were standing on social justice tickets, including that of US soldier and anti-war campaigner Michael Prysner.

This Day Tonight

One notable example of its sometimes controversial editorial approach was a musical comedy sketch that satirised the actions of then-NSW Premier Robert Askin, who was reported to have ordered his driver to "run over the bastards" when anti-war demonstrators threw themselves in the front the car in which he and visiting U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson were travelling.

Volker Lechtenbrink

Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki.

War Times: Reports from the Opposition

It had a radical anti-war theme and it was hosted by the controversial cultural icon Mumia Abu-Jamal, of whom Van Jones had been a political supporter.

Zeth Höglund

In 1914, when World War I broke out, Zeth Höglund together with Ture Nerman represented the Swedish-Norwegian members of the Zimmerwald Conference, the international socialist anti-war movement which gathered in the small Swiss village of Zimmerwald.

Zoia Horn

A prisoner, Boyd Douglas in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary on a work/study program who also worked at the Bucknell library relayed letters, allegedly including anti-war plot details and love letters, from fellow anti-war activists, including Sister Liz McAlistair, to Berrigan in prison.