How well-versed are you in 'peace, love, and understanding'?

How well did you do? Did you remember all those peaceniks? Did you think of some the Edited Guide has missed? Don't let them be left out! Begin researching your peace-related Guide Entry today.

Meanwhile, the answers:

1. In 1939, Samuel Lewis said, 'Peace is fundamental to all faiths.' What activity did he use to promote peace? Peace dancing.
2. The guy in the picture is named George, or Cat, or Yusuf. What's the name of his song that tells about 'good things to come'? Peace Train.
3. What do the Quakers call their approach to the subject of conflict? Peace Testament.
4. What did anti-war protestors try to do to the Pentagon in 1967? Levitate it. It stubbornly refused to move.
5. What organisation took the ruins of Coventry Cathedral as an inspiration for peace? The Cross of Nails Society.
6. What do you call the philosophical position that opposes war on principle? Pacifism.
7. What inventor left his explosives fortune to the cause of peace and human improvement? Alfred Nobel.
8. What did John Rabe use to protect his neighbours from a massacre? A very large Nazi flag.
9. What was unusual about Eugene V Debs' 1920 US presidential campaign? The candidate was in jail. (For opposing US involvement in World War I.)
10. What military organisation won the 2000 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for ordering its members to stop using live cannon, and just shout 'Bang' instead? The Royal Navy.

Amazing what you can find in the Edited Guide, isn't it? Personally, we're much cheered about the fate of the world, just by imagining those RN sailors shouting 'Bang!'

We're also looking forward to future Guide Entries with that sort of information. It kind of gives you hope.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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