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Category |
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| 91 |
In 1913, Henri La Fontaine won the Nobel Peace Prize. |
People |
04/24/09 |
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| 92 |
Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. |
People |
04/24/09 |
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| 93 |
Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 94 |
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 95 |
Fridtjof Nansen of Norway won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 96 |
Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 97 |
Ernesto Teodoro and Moneta Louis Renault were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1907. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 98 |
Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy were both awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 99 |
Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902. |
People |
04/23/09 |
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| 100 |
Isaac Newton quantified gravitation mathematically, creating a formula for the gravitational attraction between any two bodies. |
People > Scientists |
04/11/09 |
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| 101 |
Stephen Hawking, famous for his work in theoretical physics in spite of a severe handicap which confines him to a wheelchair, has appeared on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation", playing a hologram of himself. |
People > Scientists |
04/11/09 |
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| 102 |
Richard Feynman, famous for his work on the Manhattan Project (in which the first atomic bomb was developed), was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
People > Scientists |
04/10/09 |
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| 103 |
Dave Devall was a weather forecaster with CTV Toronto for a record 48 years, 2 months, and 27 days. |
People |
04/05/09 |
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| 104 |
Dave Devall, who retired April 3, 2009, set a Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a weather forecaster". |
People |
04/04/09 |
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| 105 |
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had a deaf wife and mother. |
People > Scientists |
03/13/09 |
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