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MOSCOW (AP) -- Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became poet laureate of the United States, died in his sleep Sunday in New York, Russian television said. He was 55.
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A Nobel Prize Pioneer at the Panthéon
The ashes of Marie Curie and her husband Pierre have now been laid to rest under the famous dome of the Panthéon, in Paris, alongside the author Victor Hugo, the politician Jean Jaurès and the Resistance fighter Jean Moulin. Through her discovery of radium, Marie Curie paved the way for nuclear physics and cancer therapy. Born of Polish parents, she was a woman of science and courage, compassionate yet stubbornly determined. Her research work wa ...
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Joy, pride, and hope. These were the emotions that Oak Ridge residents and ORNL employees felt October 13, 1994, when it was announced that Cliff Shull had received a Nobel Prize for physics. These emotions were rekindled on April 10 and 11, 1995, when Shull came home from Massachusetts to be honored for his achievements and to describe them in a replay of his Nobel Prize lecture.
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Kenzaburo Oé was born in 1935, in a small Japanese town on the island of Shikoku. As a young boy, he was caught up in the fervor and propaganda of the second World War. He, like most boys his age, was ready to die for his country and his emperor. However, when the war ended, and young Oé heard the emeror on the radio, he realized that his great hero was a mere human. Such a disillusionment at such an early age influenced his life and his writing.
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Imagine growing up in a country where drinking out of the wrong water fountain might get you thrown into jail; where a man might have the very same job as his neighbor, but because of the color of his skin, get paid less in a year than the other man made in a week; where the government told you that your ancestors and their ways of living were wrong and savage and not eve ...
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Yasser Arafat
(1929-2004)
The PLO
Arafat Takes Over
Challenging King Hussein
Aftermath of the 1973 War
Life in Lebanon
Exiled in Tunisia
The Peace Process Begins
Explaining Arafat’s Reversal
Oslo’s Demise
Arafat’s Revolving Door
Reshuffling the Palestinian Deck
Arafat’s Source of Power
Arafat’s Final Days
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa Al-Husseini, more commonly known as Yasser Arafat was the fifth of seven children born to a Palestinian textile merchant on Au ...
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Yitzhak Rabin
(1922-1995)
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem, in March 1922. His father, Nehemiah, had immigrated to Israel from the United States, and in World War I served as a volunteer in the Jewish Legion. His mother, Rosa, was one of the first members of the Haganah, the mainstream Jewish defense organization.
After completing his schooling with distinction, Rabin volunteered for the Palmach, the commando unit of the Jewish community. He served in the Palmach and the Isra ...
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