by Susan | Dec 16, 2019 | Monuments, Uncategorized
Resolution (1995), by Cypriot sculptor Theodoulos Grigoriou, reiterates the faith of the city of Nicosia and its inhabitants to human rights as the only precondition to peace and freedom. On the round cement base, part of the text of the Universal Declaration of Human...
by Susan | May 28, 2018 | Monuments, Uncategorized
In the late 1980s, a young girl on a class trip walking Boston’s Freedom Trail asked, “Where are the women?” She sparked a movement to make the landscape of Boston more inclusive. The Boston Women’s Memorial honors three important contributors to Boston’s rich...
by Susan | Dec 24, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays, Uncategorized
December 24, 1745 Benjamin Rush “Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.” December 24, 1754 George Crabbe “A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You...
by Susan | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
October 9, 1635 The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and the stealing of Native American...
by Susan | Oct 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
October 7, 2006 In France the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders and the northwest town of Bayeux unveiled a memorial to some 2,000 journalists and other media workers killed in the line of duty around the...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
August 23, 1927 Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted inside a prison at Charlestown, Massachusetts. They had been convicted of a shoe factory payroll robbery during which the paymaster and a guard had been killed. Following their...
