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Trump’s fixation on the Nobel has persisted for years, fueled in part by comparisons with Barack Obama’s 2009 win.
I am fortunate that my life spans all the years since the end of the Second World War and I can remember large parts of our ...
Some of the greatest minds in history went to their graves lamenting their most influential work.
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President Trump is in the unenviable position of threading the diplomacy needle in storm winds as he deals with Iran.
The intention of the JCB Prize for Literature hardly matters when its activities, in these past tears, became the reason for ...
"A man who only with great difficulty will possibly be viewed as a benefactor of the human race passed away in Cannes yesterday," the article said. "It was Nobel, the inventor of dynamite ... who ...
JCB Prize for Literature is shutting down,” the blog post announced, adding, “…I believe this is long overdue… because prizes ...
The West is failing to catch up to Russia's production of the most basic unit of war for the past half-millennium — gunpowder. The modern propellants and explosives that power war have largely been ...
Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833 and by the time he was 30 he was running his family’s explosive factory near Stockholm and producing completely new materials like dynamite. He expanded into ...
Steady hands, keen eyes, and strong concentration are needed to get a tiny thread through the tiny hole of a tiny needle. Try threading a needle amid stormy winds. That, my friends, is the essence of ...