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United Nations

United Nations

History
In December 1945, the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, by unanimous votes, requested that the UN make its headquarters in the United States. The UN accepted this suggestion and constructed the United Nations headquarters building in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River on land purchased with an 8.5 million dollar donation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The UN headquarters officially opened on January 9, 1951.
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Persons
Many famous humanitarians and celebrities have been involved with the United Nations including; Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Peter Ustinov, Bono, Jeffrey Sachs, Clint Borgen, Angelina Jolie, Mother Teresa and Nicole Kidman.
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Film
The Interpreter (2005): directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Tagline: The truth needs no translation. Plot Outline: Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a US Secret Service agent (Penn) is assigned to investigate an interpreter (Kidman) who overhears an assassination plot.
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Thing
International Years: the UN declares and coordinates "International Year of the..." in order to focus world attention on important issues. Using the symbolism of the UN, a specially designed logo for the year, and the infrastructure of the UN system to coordinate events worldwide, the various years have become catalysts to advancing key issues on a global scale.
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Song
One World by John Denver
 
 Fictional organisations
Fictional World or Galactic Bodies that model the UN in some way include:
The Galactic Republic from Star Wars movies
United Federation of Planets from Star Trek
League of Non-Aligned Worlds and Interstellar Alliance from Babylon 5
Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) from Futurama
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Recipe
Pork United Nations
Wordplay
United Nations Security Council is an
anagram of Stoic unity: discontinue nuclear!
UN Security Council Vote is an
anagram of Unity occurs? Clue in veto
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Anagram Genius

Literature
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem by the English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands; in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. In stanza 35 of Canto III appears the term “United Nations”.
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Date
Franklin D. Roosevelt first suggested using the name "United Nations" to refer to the wartime Allies. Roosevelt suggested the term to Winston Churchill who cited Byron's use of the phrase "united nations" in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Roosevelt adopted the name and the first official use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations.
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Quotes
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. (Dwight David Eisenhower)
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. (Kofi Annan)
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. (Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.)
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members (Harry S Trueman)
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small (Nikita Khrushchev)
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? (Pope John Paul II)
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. (Dag Hammarskjold)

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