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Lanza del Vasto

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Lanza del Vasto (born Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Maria Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte; 29 September 1901 – 6 January 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, Catholic and nonviolent activist. [1]

42 relations: ABC (newspaper), Algerian War, Éditions du Centurion, Éditions Gallimard, Bethlehem, Breeder reactor, Community of the Ark, Creys-Mépieu, Elche de la Sierra, Fasting, Fight for the Larzac, François Mauriac, France, Ganges, Himalayas, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Italy, Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, Jerusalem, Languedoc, Larzac, List of peace activists, Lodève, Luc Dietrich, Mahatma Gandhi, Mahātmā, Mandatory Palestine, Marcoule Nuclear Site, Murcia, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapon, Plutonium, Pope John XXIII, Robert Barrat, Romain Rolland, Rome, San Vito dei Normanni, Second Vatican Council, Spain, Superphénix, Vinoba Bhave, World War II.

ABC (newspaper)

ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper.

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Algerian War

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Éditions du Centurion

The Éditions du Centurion are a French publishing house established in Paris, 3, rue Bayard, in 1945 by the Assumptionists fathers of the "Maison de la Bonne Presse" which became Bayard Presse in 1969.

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Éditions Gallimard

Éditions Gallimard is one of the leading French publishers of books.

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Bethlehem

Bethlehem (بيت لحم, "House of Meat"; בֵּית לֶחֶם,, "House of Bread";; Bethleem; initially named after Canaanite fertility god Lehem) is a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem.

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Breeder reactor

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.

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Community of the Ark

The Community of the Ark is a small spiritual commune in southern France that was founded in 1948 by Lanza del Vasto.

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Creys-Mépieu

Creys-Mépieu is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.

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Elche de la Sierra

Elche de la Sierra is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

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Fasting

Fasting is the willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time.

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Fight for the Larzac

The Fight for the Larzac refers to a non-violent civil disobedience action by farmers resisting the extension of an existing military base on the Larzac plateau in South Western France.

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François Mauriac

François Charles Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Ganges

The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jacques Pâris de Bollardière

Jacques Pâris de Bollardière (16 December 1907 in Châteaubriant, Loire-Atlantique – 22 February 1986) was a French Army general, famous for his non-violent positions during the 1960s.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Languedoc

Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.

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Larzac

The Causse du Larzac is a limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France, situated between Millau (Aveyron) and Lodève (Hérault).

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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Lodève

Lodève (Lodeva) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Luc Dietrich

Luc Dietrich (17 March 1913, Dijon – 12 August 1944) was a French writer.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Mahātmā

Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" (महात्मा mahātmā: महा mahā (great) + आत्मं or आत्मन ātman). It is similar in usage to the modern English term saint.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

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Marcoule Nuclear Site

Marcoule Nuclear Site (Site nucléaire de Marcoule) is a nuclear facility in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department of France, which is in the tourist, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône region.

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Murcia

Murcia is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country, with a population of 442,573 inhabitants in 2009 (about one third of the total population of the Region).

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII (Ioannes; Giovanni; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014.

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Robert Barrat

Robert Harriot Barrat (July 10, 1889 – January 7, 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

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Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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San Vito dei Normanni

San Vito dei Normanni (Sanvitese: Santu Vitu) is an Italian town of 19,947 inhabitants of the province of Brindisi in Apulia.

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Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council, fully the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican and informally known as addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Superphénix

Superphénix (Superphoenix) or SPX was a nuclear power station prototype on the Rhône river at Creys-Malville in France, close to the border with Switzerland.

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Vinoba Bhave

Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave (11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982) was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia, Giuseppe Lanza del Vasto.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanza_del_Vasto

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