Some articles on war, world war, wars, world wars, world:
... In some circumstances, troops may engage in genocide, war rape and ethnic cleansing ... of deliberate dampening of hostilities occurred in World War I by some accounts, e.g ... examples of non-aggression, also from World War I, are detailed in "Good-Bye to All That." These include spontaneous ceasefires to rebuild defences and retrieve casualties, alongside behaviour such as refusing to ...
... Three of the ten most costly wars, in terms of loss of life, have been waged in the last century ... These are of course the two World Wars, then followed by the Second Sino-Japanese War (which is sometimes considered part of World War II, or overlapping with that war) ... The death toll of World War II, being 60 million plus, surpasses all other war-death-tolls by a factor of two ...
... February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, in which he claimed that ... which examined the four distinct aspects of experience in the phenomenal world consequently, he has been influential in the history of phenomenology ...
... – establishes the Panama Canal Zone 1905 – Treaty of Portsmouth – ends Russo-Japanese War negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt 1905 – Taft-Katsura Agreement – Japan and U.S. 1919 – Treaty of Saint-Germain – ends World War I between Allies and Austria (not ratified by U.S.) 1919 – Treaty of Versailles – ends World War I. 1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact – calls "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy" 1929 – Third Geneva Convention – establishes rules for the ...
... or frugal in using resources see energy conservation World economy, the economy of the world Virtual economy, an economy simulated in a virtual world Economy (religion), a bishop's discretionary power to ...
Famous quotes containing the words war, separate and/or world:
“One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“For love ... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The middle years of parenthood are characterized by ambiguity. Our kids are no longer helpless, but neither are they independent. We are still active parents but we have more time now to concentrate on our personal needs. Our children’s world has expanded. It is not enclosed within a kind of magic dotted line drawn by us. Although we are still the most important adults in their lives, we are no longer the only significant adults.”
—Ruth Davidson Bell. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 3 (1978)