My Wikipedia began with the International Day of Peace, which is today, September 21st, as was pointed out by the class announcements for today.
I was curious about this one because I enjoy seeing what holidays or events are associated with specific days, as something my roommates and I kept up with last year on a whiteboard in our house (for example, the other day was National Talk Like a Pirate day). Additionally, the Google doodle today is about celebrating the pretzel, and I feel like acknowledging the Day of Peace is a little more important than pretzels.
After reading the article, I immediately went back up to the top where it said "Not to be confused with World Day of Peace" and I was curious what the distinction between these two nearly identical sounding titles was. I was surprised to learn that World Day of Peace is a Roman Catholic Feast Day, because I'm Catholic and go to church this day (January 1st) every year. I had always just heard it referred to as the "Solemnity of Mary."
The article wasn't very long, but it mentioned world peace, unsurprisingly, but I clicked on it because I was curious what the Wikipedia article to what seems to be a fairly self-explanatory concept. It defines world peace as "the concept of an idea state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth."
I was curious about this one because I enjoy seeing what holidays or events are associated with specific days, as something my roommates and I kept up with last year on a whiteboard in our house (for example, the other day was National Talk Like a Pirate day). Additionally, the Google doodle today is about celebrating the pretzel, and I feel like acknowledging the Day of Peace is a little more important than pretzels.
After reading the article, I immediately went back up to the top where it said "Not to be confused with World Day of Peace" and I was curious what the distinction between these two nearly identical sounding titles was. I was surprised to learn that World Day of Peace is a Roman Catholic Feast Day, because I'm Catholic and go to church this day (January 1st) every year. I had always just heard it referred to as the "Solemnity of Mary."
The article wasn't very long, but it mentioned world peace, unsurprisingly, but I clicked on it because I was curious what the Wikipedia article to what seems to be a fairly self-explanatory concept. It defines world peace as "the concept of an idea state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth."
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| The Blue Marble, taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 |
As I read further, I was inspired to click the link to a concept I had never heard of before, cobdenism. It's an economic ideology of peace that says the key components for peace and prosperity are international free trade and a non-interventionist foreign policy.
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