The president of the UN General Assembly wields a very unusual looking gavel. It is a Viking gavel that is a gift from Iceland, and there’s a very interesting story behind it. UNITED NATIONS, USA – If ...
UN Photo/Mark Garten In this photo from 2012, Joseph Deiss, President of the sixty-fifth General Assembly, bangs the gavel, sealing the appointment of Ban Ki-moon to a second term as UN ...
The wooden gavel – which once summoned the most unruly lawyers to order – has gone the way of the powdered wig. Judges rarely, if ever, wield a gavel in the city’s state and federal courtrooms these ...
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