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...spent most of his time tinkering with inventions, amassing 355 patents by the time he died in 1896. Following Nobel's death, his executors discovered that he had secretly created five annual prizes - for chemistry, physics, literature, medicine and peace - in his will to honor "the greatest benefit on mankind." It all came as quite a surprise. "It took five years to get the prizes started, because everyone had to figure it all out," says Hans Jornvall, secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden - the group that chooses the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Nobel initially donated...
...Association officer Kendra N. Boothe ’09, she acknowledged that members of the faith also celebrate the holidays of other religions. The association used the celebration to highlight its belief in the “oneness of God, the oneness of religion, and the oneness of mankind,” Boothe said. Opting for hot wings at last years event, the Harvard Islamic Society instead provided baklava and dates this year as traditional foods eaten to break fast during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, according to the society’s president...
Winds of change are blasting. First, Kofi Annan became the first African Secretary-General of the United Nations, and now Obama is the first African-American President of the United States. My pride is not because these men are African like me, it's because mankind now sees the folly of racism, and people are judged not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. Stories like Obama's make people see the greatness of America. America's greatness is not projected when she attacks pariah states which do not threaten...
They're simple, they're American and come Thanksgiving, everybody saves room for them. But the pies we know today are a fairly recent addition to a history that goes back as long as mankind has had dough to bake into a crust and stuff to put inside it. In medieval England, they were called pyes, and instead of being predominantly sweet, they were most often filled with meat - beef, lamb, wild duck, magpie pigeon - spiced with pepper, currants or dates. Historians trace pie's initial origins to the Greeks, who are thought to be the originators of the pastry...
...baptized. As the last great global tumult, the Second World War represented the convergence and the stratification of ideologies. But what hoisted itself above all of these intersecting faiths—above fascism, communism, capitalism, democracy—was the ambivalent shroud of dust and ash in which mankind could glimpse a vision of its own destruction. To watch footage of the atomic tests—the grainy, bird’s-eye view of a seemingly endless geyser of particulate matter—is to understand an iota of a vengeful, earthbound god. To watch that same footage...