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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel , who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. These prizes were first given in 1901. The ... Read more |
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Prize Courts
PRIZE COURTS PRIZE COURTS derive their name from their function, which is to pass on the validity and disposition of "prizes," a term referring to the seizure of a ship or its cargo by the maritime, not the land, forces of a belligerent. Jurisdictional pronouncements of prize courts have expanded... Read more |
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prize
prize in maritime law, the private property of an enemy that a belligerent captures at sea. For the capture of the vessel or cargo to be lawful it must be made outside neutral waters and by authority of the belligerent. A prize court, in the territory of the belligerent or in that of an allied... Read more |
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Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch , 1867-1961, American economist and sociologist, b. Jamaica Plain, Mass., grad. Bryn Mawr, 1889. She taught at Wellesley College until her dismissal (1918) for opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with Jane ... Read more |
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Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder 1930-, American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived in Japan from 1956 to 1968. His poetry, influenced by Zen Buddhism and Native American culture, celebrates the peace found in nature and decries its destruction; volumes include Myths... Read more |
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Turner Prize
Turner Prize. An annual prize (originally £10,000, now £20,000) for British achievement in the visual arts, named after the great English painter J. M. W. Turner. It was established in 1984 by the Patrons of New Art, a body founded two years earlier (as part of the Friends of the Tate... Read more |
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booty
booty, a form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, was permitted to be distributed among the captors at once. In an old definition it was everything that could be picked up by hand above the main deck, all else in the ship having to be legally condemned by a prize court before its value... Read more |
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Rigoberta Menchu
R IGOBERTAM ENCHÚ Born: January 9, 1959 Chimel, Guatemala Guatemalan human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú has been a passionate spokesperson for the rights of indigenous peoples—people who belong to an ethnic group that is native to a region,... Read more |
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi , 1945-, Burmese political leader; grad. Oxford Univ. The daughter of assassinated (1947) nationalist general U Aung San, who is regarded as the founder of modern Myanmar, she lived outside the country after 1960. Returning in 1988 to care for her dying mother, she joined the... Read more |
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel , 1833-96, Swedish chemist and inventor. Educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, he traveled as a youth and returned to St. Petersburg in 1852 to assist his father in the development of torpedoes and mines. Manufacture of a mixture of nitroglycerine and gunpowder, developed... Read more |
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SEN. MCCASKILL AMENDMENTS STRENGTHEN WOUNDED WARRIOR BILL
...caring for wounded warriors, and ensure...Dignity for Wounded Warrior Act, the committee...for our country deserve only the best...treatment they truly deserve." McCaskill...Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act address many...the 1997 Nobel ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Warrior who quit battle
...sort of road warrior we were looking...column announced its search for...up most Road Warrior columns.With...two others who deserve honorable mention...assist other road warriors. No heroism...with the Road Warrior. As the ... |
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Obama's Nobel is not a terrible thing.(Joel Connelly)
...conservative warrior who served briefly...politicized the Nobel Peace Prize has become, from...won their Nobel Prizes.Glenn Beck is...Chicago failed in its Olympic bid...Obama's Nobel Prize. Obama was candid...will accept ... |
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Oppression with a woman's face; The deadly struggle for Islamic...
...Shirin Ebadi, another warrior woman in the cause of...already but for the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 2003, which...acknowledged that it had murdered its critics, and the first...the women of Islam who deserve better. * Suzanne Fields... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Freedom shouldn't mean doing exactly what you want
...history is changed by its restless demands and always...stirred when the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the Chinese...Assange and his web warriors have opened up the labyrinthine...again be believed. They deserve no better. However... |
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HYPOCRISY THAT PASSES FOR DIPLOMACY IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL
...Assad, telling its real ally that...world community on its head; the murder...for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was said...Lebanese Christian warriors after the latter...before the bar of its justice the Khmer...or alleged sins ... |
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Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Blue jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees...contributions deserve greater recognition...the Shawnee. In its command of the...evidence and in its careful, judicious...his masterful, prize-winning biography...Jacket appears in its ... |
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Da Governor?(PLUGGED IN - POLITICS)(INSIDE BLOGOTICS)(Column)
...No more! We deserve somebody in charge...nothing to advance peace, as this year...there will be no peace until Israel relents in authorizing its self-destruction...waged against its population with...tough-guy warrior - ... |
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Short-haul fiction, long-term benefits
...International Prize for career achievement...The Caine Prize for African Writing...rather than War and Peace; James The Turn...creep in under its fence. I was...Animal Farm from its Kindle e-readers...rights, cyber-warriors ... |
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DESPITE AMBITION, KUSHNER'S `KABUL' LACKS DEPTH
...commenting on its exotic arcana...transported with its merchant to Bemaru...won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award...universal language of peace - though, in...multilingual warrior-poets, while...luxury," with its "essential ... |
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