Henry Usborne (16 Jan. 1909 -16 March 1996).by Rene Wadlow. Henry Usborne was a British Member of Parliament (M.P.); elected in the Labour Party landslide in 1945. He was re-elected in 1950. He was an engineer and Burmingham businessman yet a socialist.
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Alexandre Marc ; (19 January 1904 – 22 February 2000) was born as Alexandre Markovitch Lipiansky in Odessa, Russia in 1904. He later simplified his name by dropping Lipiansky; (which his sons have reclaimed) and modifying his father’s first name to Marc;
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By Rene Wadlow. Stringfellow Barr: 15 January 1897 – 3 February 1982) Stringfellow Barr; whose birth anniversary we mark on 15 January; was a historian; largely of the classic Greek and Roman Empire period and an active world citizen. He served as
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Carl Ransom Rogers; (1902 – 1987) an active World Citizen; whose birth anniversary is 8 January, was a US psychologist and educator and a leading figure of what is often called “The Third Wave of Psychology.” The first wave was Freud and
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By René Wadlow January 1st is the birth anniversary of Maurice Béjart, an innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions; Maurice Béjart was always a champion of blending
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Camilla Reeve (Ed.). (London: Palewell Press, 2020). For many, the Covid 19 pandemic took loved ones and livelihoods away without discrimination. Yet for others, the confinment was a period in which some felt a sense that things could be better if all
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By Rene Wadlow. With the death on 26 November 2020 of Sadeq Al-Mahdi; a major figure of modern Sudanese politics; leaves the scene at a time of deep transitions within Sudan. Sadeq was the great grandson of Mehammed Ahmed; who in the
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By Rene Wadlow. The 8 November 2020 elections; for the two houses of the Myanmar Parliament were carried out with little violence. The National League for Democracy (NLD); headed by Aung San Suu Kyi won some 80 percent of the open seats.
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By Rene Wadlow. As we reflect on current armed conflicts; on which the Association of World Citizens has proposed measures for conflict resolution: – Nagorno-Karabakh, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine-Donetsk-Lougansk- Russia – we ask ourselves if we are to be overwhelmed by an endless
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Without a doubt; we are living the most interesting moments of our lives. We are human beings with a global vision of the world; and we are concerned about events that take place in countries; that are very different and far from
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