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# Georgia Tann

Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud led to the closure of the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in America, and many of her adoption practices (often designed to hide the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice.

## About

* The...home...is one of the finest organizations of its kind in the world...I know this to be a fact...I have every confidence in Miss Georgia Tann.
** Dick Powell
** (September 1950)"Newsweek".
# Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (January 19, 1920 – March 4, 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully against Alberto Fujimori for President of Peru. He was Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2000 until July 2001.

## Quotes

* It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom.
** UN Secretary-General, as quoted in Watching the World, Awake! magazine (22 October 1982).
* Some 500,000 scientists all over the world are devoting their knowledge to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly.
** Stated reinforcing his warning to the United Nations. Cited in the article: Apocalypse—What Is It?, The Watchtower magazine, 2/15, 1986.
# Thae Yong-ho

Thae Yong-ho (born 25 July 1962) is a former North Korean diplomat who served as the North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom. He defected to South Korea in 2016.

## Quotes
### Remarks to the U.S. Congress (November 2017)

    Remarks to the U.S. Congress (1 November 2017)
* The reason why I gave up all the privileges and economic benefits was that I felt I could not let my sons lead a life like me, as a modern-day slave. I believed the best legacy I could leave for my sons was to give them the freedom that is so common to everyone in America.
* I could not take back the happy smiles of my sons by bringing them back to North Korea. I could not force my sons to pretend to be loyal to Kim Jong Un and the North Korean system and to shout "Long live the supreme leader Kim Jong Un!", "Long live the socialist paradise of the DPRK!" – like I did all my life.
* I often was asked questions by my British friends which caught me flat footed. Trying to justify the North Korean system when, deep down, I knew their concerns were fair and legitimate.
* While Kim Jong Un has already long had the tools to destroy South Korea effectively, he also believes it is necessary to drive American forces out of the peninsula. And this can be done, he believes, by being able to credibly threaten the continental United States with nuclear weapons. On top of the thousands of artillery pieces and short-range missile capabilities long held on the North Korean side, the potential deployment of battle-ready nuclear ICBMs means the threat is not only towards South Korea, but also towards America.
* German reunification could not have been achieved if the Hungarian government did not open its border with Austria to provide an exit route for the East German people.
* The world was united to abolish the South African apartheid. Now it is time for the world to stop the widespread and systematic human rights violations in North Korea, which are tantamount to the crimes committed by the Nazis.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Thae Yong-ho on Wikipedia
# Jan Tombiński

Jan Tombiński (born 4 October 1958) is a Polish diplomat.

## Quotes

* I very often quote the difference between this collective approach and the individual approach. The European policy of human rights is about defending the individual against oppression by a majority group.
** Jan Tombiński: Europe Needs Ukraine to Understand Its Own Destiny (30 August 2016) Ukraine Democracy Initiative
# Halvard Lange

Halvard Manthey Lange (16 September 1902 – 19 May 1970) was a Norwegian diplomat, politician and statesman.

## Sourced

* We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
** Observer, London, March 9, 1957, according to Quotation by Halvard Lange. Dictionary.com.

## Quotes about

* The Soviet leaders have always disliked and feared the North Atlantic Alliance, and all that it stands for. They did their utmost to prevent it being born. You will remember that just as your distinguished Foreign Minister Mr. Lange was about to leave Oslo for Washington to enquire about the North Atlantic Treaty, a Note was received from the Soviet Government inviting Norway to conclude a non-aggression pact with them. Norway made her choice. She declined the Russian offer; and on the 3rd March, 1949 decided to join the Atlantic Alliance, while making it clear that she would not allow armed forces of foreign powers to be stationed in Norway so long as the country had not been attacked or threatened with attack. Thus the Soviet failed to prevent the Treaty being signed, but this did not deter them from trying to prevent the Alliance being extended or strengthened. When there was a question of Greece and Turkey joining the Alliance, the Soviet did their utmost by a mixture of blandishment and threats to prevent their doing so. Two years ago they took exactly the same line when the question of the accession of the Federal Republic of Germany was under consideration.
** Hastings Ismay, Speech to the Norwegian Atlantic Committee in Oslo, 15 May 1956
# Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri (19 October 1944 – 18 August 2020, born in Iraq) was an Iranian cleric and diplomat. During the 1980s, Taskhiri served as the Iranian representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and was involved in promoting Iranian interests during the height of the Iran–Iraq War. He was an instrumental figure in the Islamic Revolution. He is currently active in Iraq.

## Quotes

* The Palestinian issue should be at the heart of our unity. It must motivate us to unite and stand in one row behind the Palestinian Mujahideen and the brave uprising.
** Ayatollah Muhammad 'Ali Al-Taskhiri, Secretary General of the International Forum for Bringing Islamic Schools of Thought Closer on the Palestinian Struggle May 2004.
* There is a terrorism which threatens security, honour, property and the like; there is a cultural terrorism which tears human identity apart; there is an information terrorism which deprives man of his freedom to breathe in an unpolluted atmosphere.
* Towards a definition of terrorism.
* Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism. They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist.
** Iran says Saudis can curb divisive religious statements, Mehr News Agency, 22 July 2007.
# Irina Bokova

Irina Georgieva Bokova (born 12 July 1952) is a Bulgarian politician, member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Director-General of UNESCO. As Director-General of UNESCO, Bokova is actively supportive of international efforts to advance gender equality, improve education and cutoff funding for terrorism by increasing efforts to fight piracy of intellectual goods. A firm opponent of racism and anti-Semitism, Bokova has led UNESCO's activities on Holocaust remembrance.

## Quotes

* Every child and adult should have the skills and the tools to respond to the challenges of the world today and make the most of the opportunities that are available.
** leadersmag.com.
* The award of the Peace Prize to these two ardent defenders of education sends out a resounding message to the world on the importance of education for building peaceful and sustainable societies.
** abcnews.go.com.
* People are more connected than ever before, but inequalities and misunderstandings remain deep within and among societies. Human capacity is the ultimate renewable energy, but it faces obstacles everywhere. UNESCO’s role lies in bridging the gaps in global governance by fostering international cooperation in education, the sciences, culture, and communication.
** leadersmag.com.
# Francisco Mariano Fernández Amunátegui

Francisco Mariano Fernández Amunátegui (21 April 1945 –) is a Chilean diplomat.

## Quotes

* A political dinner is what I am paid for. A wine dinner is gratis—it is for enjoying life.
** Wine Talk: Mariano Fernandez (25 March 2009) Wine Spectator
# Philipp Jenninger

Philipp Jenninger (10 June 1932 – 4 January 2018) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and diplomat. He was the ninth president of the Bundestag from 1984 to 1988. He also served as Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag (1969–1990), Minister of State at the German Chancellery (1982–1984), German Ambassador to Austria (1991–1995) and German Ambassador to the Holy See (1995–1997).

## Quotations

* Für das Schicksal der deutschen und europäischen Juden noch verhängnisvoller als die Untaten und Verbrechen Hitlers waren vielleicht seine Erfolge. Die Jahre von 1933 bis 1938 sind selbst aus der distanzierten Rückschau und in Kenntnis des Folgenden noch heute ein Faszinosum insofern, als es in der Geschichte kaum eine Parallele zu dem politischen Triumphzug Hitlers während jener ersten Jahre gibt.
** Perhaps even more disastrous for the fate of German and European Jews than Hitler's misdeeds and crimes were his successes. The years from 1933 to 1938 are still fascinating even when viewed from a distance and with knowledge of what followed, insofar as there is hardly a parallel in history to Hitler's political triumph during those first years.
** Speech on 10 November 1988 in the German Bundestag on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht
# Jaime de Bourbon de Parme

Jaime de Bourbon de Parme (13 October 1972 –) is a Dutch royal and diplomat.

## Quotes

* War in the family, but actually longing for peace, has been a message that was handed over for generations, so maybe it sits in my genes.
** New Ambassador of Netherlands presents credentials to Pope (20 December 2014) Vatican Radio
# Davor Ivo Stier

Davor Ivo Stier, (born 6 January 1972 in Buenos Aires), is a Croatian politician, member of the European Parliament.

## Sourced

* It is worth continuing the quest and develop now a new and common EU approach aimed at replacing the current conflicting forces of separatism and centralism by a federal and European concept of Bosnia and Herzegovina, truly embracing all three peoples, reinvigorating all its citizens and enabling an EU perspective for the country.
** From article The case for a new EU approach in Bosnia and Herzegovina published in New Europe magazine on 13 January 2014
# Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez

Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (17 January 1922 – 29 May 2018) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla, the bishop of the Diocese of Tampico, and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí.

## Quotes

* At the Council I went to learn what the episcopate of the whole world thought.
** "Pope Francis is the man of the Church for this moment." (13 June 2016) Omnes
# Epic-Puranic royal genealogies

The Itihasa-Purana, the Epic-Puranic narratives of the Sanskrit Epics (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas, contain royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty which are regarded by Indian traditions as historic events, and used in the Epic-Puranic chronology to establish a traditional timeline of Indian history.
Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links

## B

* If the Puranic genealogies from the time of the Buddha onward are almost faultless, the presumption naturally is that the earlier genealogies too are not mere figments of the imagination.
** Bhargava, P.L., 1998 (1984): Retrieval of History from Puranic Myths, Delhi: D.K. Printworld. quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.

## P

* There is nothing in them, as far as I am aware, really inconsistent with the most ancient book we possess, namely, the Rigveda, and they throw much light thereon, and on all problems concerning ancient India.
** F. E. Pargiter, Motilal Banarsidas, Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (Delhi-Varanasi-Patna, 1962). Quoted in S. Talageri, The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis (New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2000)
* It is absurd to suppose that the elaborate royal genealogies were all merely figments of imagination or a tissue of falsehoods.
** A.D. Pusalker, quoted in S. Talageri, The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism (1993)
# Mitanni

Mitanni, also called Hanigalbat (Hanigalbat, Khanigalbat) in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and Southeast Anatolia from c. 1500 to 1300 BCE. Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite, Babylon and a series of ineffectual Assyrian kings created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.
Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links

## B

* There is not a single cultural element of Central Asian, Eastern European or Caucasian origin in the archaeological culture of the Mittanian area [….] But there is one element novel to Iraq in Mittanian culture and art, which is later on observed in Iranian culture until the Islamisation of Iran: the peacock...
** Burchard Brentjes 1981, The Mittanians and the Peacock. Brentjes, Burchard, in "Ethnic Problem of the History of Central Asia in the Early Period", ed. M.S.Asimov, B.A.Litvinsky, L.I.Miroshnikov, D.S.Rayevsky, Nauka, Moscow, 1981. Quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press.

## M

* Our dating of the Indo-Aryan element in the Mitanni texts is based purely and simply on written documents offering datable contexts. While we cannot with certainty push these dates prior to the fifteenth century BC. It should not be forgotten that the Indic elements seem to be little more than the residue of a dead language in Hurrian, and that the symbiosis that produced the Mitanni may have taken place centuries earlier.
** J.P. Mallory, quoted in TALAGERI, Shrikant G. 2001. Michael Witzel – An Examination of his Review of my Book.

## S

* The Nuzi archives, from the Mitanni vassal state of Arraphe (Kirkuk), contain the only sources on Hurrian society in Mesopotamia. These texts, which date to the late fifteenth and fourteenth centuries BC, provide glimpses of peasants and craftsmen working for the king and paid in rations, and of rich individuals in possession of estates, the latter often acquired by fictive inheritance under the terms of adoption in return for a gift. In Nuzi, women held a special position and enjoyed extensive rights.
** Sigfried J. de Laet (ed.), History of Humanity: From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century BC (UNESCO Publishing, 1996), p. 483
* They were Indian heroes, who rode westward and with their precious weapon the war horse and their own ardent energy made themselves felt as a power far and wide in the aging Babylonian Empire.
** Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West
# Persian language

Persian also known by its endonym Farsi is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

## Quote

* The Mughals were Chaghta'i Turks and we know that, unlike them, the other Turkic rulers outside of Iran, such as the Ottomans in Turkey and the Uzbeks in Central Asia, were not so enthusiastic about Persian. Indeed, in India also, Persian did not appear to hold such dominance at the courts of the early Mughals.
    — (May, 1998)"The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics". Modern Asian Studies 32 (2): 317-349.
* To begin with, is Persian a language of equal rank with the Indian, derived from a common ancestor, or is it merely an Indian dialect? Seven centuries of linguistic development, scriptless and therefore very rapid, lie between the Old Vedic of the Indian texts and the Behistun Inscription of Darius. It is almost as great a gap as that between the Latin of Tacitus and the French of the Strassburg Oath of 842.
** Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West
# Alastair David McPhail

Alastair David McPhail (2 March 1961 –) is a British diplomat.

## Quotes

* We are absolutely aware of the potential for future conflict, and to be honest I think we will be lucky if we can get another two years without a return to conflict if a combination of factors is not addressed.
** Concern for Christians in the Cremisan Valley (17 February 2015) Vatican Radio
# Nigel Baker

Nigel Marcus Baker (9 September 1966 –) is a British diplomat who was formerly Ambassador to Bolivia and Ambassador to the Holy See. He was Head of the Latin America department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2019, and in August 2020 took up his appointment as British Ambassador to Slovakia.

## Quotes

* We don't want to see conflicts breaking out anywhere, but when the next conflict breaks out this particular weapon in the cruel armory of man will not be used because the potential perpetrators know that they can't get away with it.
** British ambassador decries 'brutal' crime of sexual violence (3 June 2014) Catholic News Agency
# Austen Henry Layard

Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was a British traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.

## Quotes

* Who would have believed it probable or possible, before these discoveries were made, that beneath the heap of earth and rubbish which marked the site of Nineveh, there would be found the history of the wars between Hezekiah and Sennacherib, written at the very time when they took place by Sennacherib himself, and confirming even in minute details the Biblical record?
** Nineveh and Babylon by Sir Austen Henry Layard, (1882) pp. 51-2
* I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place.
** Speech in Parliament (January 15, 1855), reported in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, vol. cxxxviii. p. 2077; this can be contrasted witho Sydney Smith's statement "The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other" in Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1806).

## External links

* The Monuments of Nineveh (1849)
* The Monuments of Nineveh (1849–53)
* Autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid (vol. 2) (1903).
# Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96.

## Quotes

* The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.
** Nansen, Fridtjof (August 1891). "A New Route to the North Pole". The Forum 11: 693–709.
* It is better to go skiing and think of God, than to go to church and think of sport.
** Quoted in The New Yorker 86: p. 56. 15 March 2010.
* The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
** Quoted in Shapiro, Fred R. (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations. Yale University Press. p. 545. ISBN 0-300-10798-6.
* Let me tell you the secret of such so-called successes as there have been in my life, and here I believe I give you really good advice. It was to burn my boats and demolish my bridges behind me. Then one loses no time in looking behind, when one should have quite enough to do in looking ahead...
** Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews University, 3 November 1926. Translated in Nansen, Fridtjof (1927). Adventure, and other papers. Books for Libraries Press. p. 27.

## External Links

* Encyclopedic article on Fridtjof Nansen on Wikipedia
# Émile Borel

Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician, originator of the Infinite monkey theorem.

## Quotes

* Quels que soient les progrès des connaissances humaines, il y aura toujours place pour l'ignorance et par suite pour le hasard et la probabilité.
** Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for ignorance, hence for chance and probability.
*** Emile Borel (1914). Le hasard. Librairie Félix Alcan. p. 12-13.
* Concevons qu’on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur les touches d’une machine à écrire et que, sous la surveillance de contremaîtres illettrés, ces singes dactylographes travaillent avec ardeur dix heures par jour avec un million de machines à écrire de types variés. Les contremaîtres illettrés rassembleraient les feuilles noircies et les relieraient en volumes. Et au bout d’un an, ces volumes se trouveraient renfermer la copie exacte des livres de toute nature et de toutes langues conservés dans les plus riches bibliothèques du monde. Telle est la probabilité pour qu’il se produise pendant un instant très court, dans un espace de quelque étendue, un écart notable de ce que la mécanique statistique considère comme la phénomène le plus probable.
** Imagine that a million monkeys have been trained to type at random on the keys of a typewriter and that, under the supervision of illiterate foremen, these typing monkeys work diligently ten hours a day with a million typewriters of various types. Illiterate foremen would collect the blackened sheets and bind them into volumes. And at the end of a year, these volumes would contain the exact copy of the books of all kinds and all languages preserved in the richest libraries in the world. Such is the probability that there will occur, during a very short instant, in a space of some extent, a notable deviation from what statistical mechanics considers to be the most probable phenomenon.
** "La mécanique statique et l'irréversibilité." J. Phys. Theor. Appl. 3.1 (1913): 189-196.

## Quotes about Borel

* Just as Borel, the pure mathematician interested in probability and statistics, had no counterpart in England so Keynes, the logician-economist, had no counterpart in France.
** Aldrich, John (December 2010). "Tales of two Societies – London and Paris 1860–1940". Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics 6 (2): 4–5.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Émile Borel on Wikipedia
* Media related to Émile Borel on Wikimedia Commons
# Handshake

A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands.

## Quotes

* Do you know where the handshake comes from? In ancient times it was a way to prove to a stranger that you did not carry weapons. Yes, offer your open hand to show that you did not have bad intentions. I wonder if the viruses know it.
** Contagion, written by Scott Z. Burns (2011)
* A hand will stretch out towards an outstretched hand. A hand will open for an opened hand.
** Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BC.

## See also

* Hand
* Greeting