Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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World War II Aircraft names or nicknames

  1. Havoc (Douglas A-20)
  2. Zeke or Zero (Mitsubishi A6M)
  3. Mustang (North American P-51)
  4. Komet ( Messerschmitt Me 163)
  5. Vickers Armstrong Supermarine Spitfire
  6. Superfortress (Boeing B-29)
  7. Heinkel He 51
  8. Focke-Wulf Fw 190
  9. Vought F4U Corsair
  10. Yakovlev Yak-3
  11. Mosquito de Havilland DH.98
  12. Lightning, Lockheed P-39, with twin booms
  13. Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy

His writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others.

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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Gandhi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
  9. Jimmy Carter – in the Camp David Accords, he worked out Middle East peace between Israel and Egypt.
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
  9. Jimmy Carter – in the Camp David Accords, he worked out Middle East peace between Israel and Egypt.
    10 Adlai Stevenson II - US ambassador to the United Nations. Known for role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (he challenged USSR representative Zorin to answer “Yes or No” to the question of Soviet missiles in Cuba).
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
  9. Jimmy Carter – in the Camp David Accords, he worked out Middle East peace between Israel and Egypt.
  10. Adlai Stevenson II - US ambassador to the United Nations. Known for role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (he challenged USSR representative Zorin to answer “Yes or No” to the question of Soviet missiles in Cuba).
  11. Klemens von Metternich - Austrian diplomat; had his flaws, but staved off war longer than anyone thought possible in Western Europe
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
  9. Jimmy Carter – in the Camp David Accords, he worked out Middle East peace between Israel and Egypt.
  10. Adlai Stevenson II - US ambassador to the United Nations. Known for role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (he challenged USSR representative Zorin to answer “Yes or No” to the question of Soviet missiles in Cuba).
  11. Klemens von Metternich - Austrian diplomat; had his flaws, but staved off war longer than anyone thought possible in Western Europe
  12. John Adams – President #2, he served as the Commissioner to France, and the Ambassador to the Dutch Republic.
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Noted peacemakers/diplomats, and a brief description

  1. Chiune Sugihara - Japanese diplomat; saved thousands in WWII
  2. Leo Tolstoy - his writing had an influence on Ghandi, MLK, and Mandela, among others
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian thorn-in-the-side
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. - prominent nonviolent leader of American Civil Rights Movement
  5. Dag Hammarskjöld - 2nd Secretary-General of the UN and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  6. Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957 for organizing the UN Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis
  7. Nelson Mandela - imprisoned for 27 years but emerged, without rancor or bitterness, to lead and help unify his country
  8. Mikhail Gorbachev - Introduced glasnost and granted Soviet people new freedoms, including freedom of speech.
  9. Jimmy Carter – in the Camp David Accords, he worked out Middle East peace between Israel and Egypt.
  10. Adlai Stevenson II - US ambassador to the United Nations. Known for role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (he challenged USSR representative Zorin to answer “Yes or No” to the question of Soviet missiles in Cuba).
  11. Klemens von Metternich - Austrian diplomat; had his flaws, but staved off war longer than anyone thought possible in Western Europe
  12. John Adams – President #2, he served as the Commissioner to France, and the Ambassador to the Dutch Republic.
  13. Llewellyn Thompson – US Ambassador to USSR, persuaded Kennedy to back down, averting the Cuban missile crisis.

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I think that’s a misinterpretation of Thompson’s role on EXCOMM, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was well underway by then in any event. But he was certainly a peacemaker by nature: Llewellyn Thompson - Wikipedia

Pass, since this was my category.

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I was thinking of putting in Madeleine Albright as #13 a little while ago, but got sidetracked. So here’s a new category

A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

  1. Llewellyn - Wales
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A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

  1. Llewellyn - Wales
  2. Marchand - France
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A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

  1. Llewellyn - Wales
  2. Marchand - France
  3. Giovanni — Italy
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A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

  1. Llewellyn - Wales
  2. Marchand - France
  3. Giovanni — Italy
  4. Ian/Heather McDonald - Nova Scotia
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A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

1) Llewellyn - Wales
2) Marchand - France
3) Giovanni — Italy
4) Ian/Heather McDonald - Nova Scotia
5) Stoltzfus - Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Amish Country)
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A person named X is quite possibly from Y: typical names in regions or countries

1) Llewellyn - Wales
2) Marchand - France
3) Giovanni — Italy
4) Ian/Heather McDonald - Nova Scotia
5) Stoltzfus - Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Amish Country)
6) Hamish - Scotland