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1) peace congresses. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...peace congresses, multinational meetings to achieve or preserve peace and to prevent wars. Although philosophical and religious pacifism is almost as old as war itself,...

2) Peace. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Peace, river, 945 mi (1,521 km) long, formed by the junction of the Finlay and Parsnip rivers at Williston Lake, N central British Columbia, Canada. It flows east...

3) Peace Corps. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Peace Corps, agency of the U.S. government, whose purpose is to assist underdeveloped countries in meeting their needs for trained manpower. The Peace Corps was established...

4) Westphalia, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Westphalia, Peace of, 1648, general settlement ending the Thirty Years War. It marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire as an effective institution and inaugurated...

5) calumet, peace pipe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...calumet, peace pipe, [Fr.,=reed], name given by the French to the peace pipe used by the indigenous people of North America for smoking tobacco; it consisted of a...

6) Hubertusburg, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hubertusburg, Peace of, (hoober´toosboorkh) (KEY) , 1763, treaty signed on Feb. 15 between Austria and Prussia at the end of the Seven Years War. It was signed at...

7) Utrecht, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Utrecht, Peace of, series of treaties that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession. It put an end to French expansion and signaled the rise of the British Empire....

8) Pyrenees, Peace of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pyrenees, Peace of the, 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, had been complicated by French intervention...

9) Antalcidas, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Antalcidas, Peace of, see Corinthian War....

10) Prague, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Prague, Peace of, 1635: see Thirty Years War....

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