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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first ... Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor which won his colleagues' respect .... of the United Nations informed Thant that he would be awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace prize...
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U Thant biography Biography Online  Nov 2, 2014 ... Thant was an avid reader and became known by his friends as 'The ... Three years later, aged just 25, he became the school's headmaster after winning first place in the All ... The first United Nations Secretary-General, Trygve Lie has .... Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1965,the...
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Carlos P. Romulo - Wikipedia  He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first non-American to win the Pulitzer Prize...
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Who Owns Taiwan: A Search for International Title - JStor  (Formosa), 3 CANADIAN Y.B. INT'L L. 290 (1965); Harvey, The Legal Status of Formosa, ... In 1954, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles drew a sharp distinction .... McDougal & Goodman, Chinese Participation in the United Nations, 60 AM. ..... T'UNG-SHIH (The General History of Taiwan), first published in 1921, was...
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Dag Hammarskjld - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  ... governor of Uppland, chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation. ... Hammarskjld represented Sweden as a delegate to the United Nations in 1949 ... Hammarskjld was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 for ... form under the title Quest for Peace, Racine, Wisc., The Johnson Foundation, 1965.
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United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize | United Nations  The Peace Prize was to be awarded to the person who had done most for "fraternity ... One agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) received the ... After being awarded the prize jointly with the world body, Secretary-General Kofi Annan in ... 1969 - The International Labor Organization (ILO).
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Five things you need to know about Rabindranath Tagore | books ...  May 9, 2015 ... Rabindranath Tagore is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. When Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, ... that Tagore wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh - 'Jana...
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Kofi Annan - Wikipedia  Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan, along with the UN, were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace .... In 1980 he became the head of personnel for the office of the UN High...
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Free Flashcards about NOBEL PRIZES - StudyStack  Free flashcards to help memorize facts about NOBEL PRIZES. ... BORN IN GHANA IN 1938, THIS U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL WON A NOBEL ... THIS 1990 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER WAS BORN NEAR STAVROPOL & IN 1970 BECAME THAT CITY'S COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV.
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Poet Seers  Rabindranath Tagore (1913)  Rabindranath Tagore (1861  1941). Indian poet. The first Asian poet to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature  for his ground breaking work  Gitanjali.
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U Nu - Wikipedia  Nu known honorifically as U Nu or Thakin Nu, was a leading Burmese statesman, Social Democratic politician, nationalist, and political figure of the 20th century. He was the first Prime Minister of Burma under the provisions of the 1947 .... United Nations in 1957. U Thant became the third UN Secretary-General in 1961.
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50 Years of UN Peacekeeping Operations, 6 October English  He also served on the Swedish Delegation to the UN General Assembly from 1951 to 1953. Mr. Hammarskjld was unanimously appointed Secretary-General of...
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United Nations facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The official languages of the UN are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, ... Trygve Lie, the first secretary-general, was succeeded by Dag Hammarskjld .... organization was begun under the aegis of the U.S. State Department late in 1939. ... Close cooperation among members was expected; the Security Council...
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Kofi Annan Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline  Kofi Annan was the seventh secretary general of the United Nations. ... reaching out to new partners, and thereby restore public confidence in the organization. ... with the UN began in 1962 when he joined as an administrative and budget officer ... In 1998, he appointed a lady, Louise Frechette of Canada, as the first deputy...
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Introductions - Phoethargyi Travels & Tours  Prior to his diplomatic career, U Thant's experience was in education and information ... He was a member of Burma's Textbook Committee and of the Council of ... U Thant began serving as Acting Secretary-General since 3 November 1961,...
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Kofi Annan - Civil Servant - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Kofi Annan is the former secretary-general of the United Nations and a recipient ... an international civil servant working for the United Nations in 1962. ... Ghana gained independence from Britain; it was the first British ... got a job working as a budget officer for the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency.
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Five things you need to know about Rabindranath Tagore | books ...  May 9, 2015 ... Rabindranath Tagore is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. When Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, ... to be studied "somewhere beyond the limits of nation and geography".
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What Nehru owed to Tagore - CHEN - The Hindu  Nov 23, 2008 ... More than any other Indian, wrote Nehru, he [Tagore] has helped to bring ... book, Glimpses of World History, which consisted of letters written to his daughter Indira from jail. ... The future Prime Minister of free India had first met Asia's first Nobel laureate in the early 1920s, when he accompanied Gandhi...
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14th Dalai Lama - Wikipedia  The 14th Dalai Lama /dla lm/ (US), /dla lm/ (UK) (religious name: ... The 14th Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. .... He passed with honours and was awarded the Lharampa degree, the .... during his visit to Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot and denounced it as politically motivated.
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Secretary-General of the United Nations - Wikipedia  The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG or just SG) is the head of the United ... In the early 1960s, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev led an effort to abolish the ... List of Secretaries-General[edit] ..... history  timeline.