We all have heard about the Nobel Prize but did you know what Alfred Nobel was famous for before?
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We all have heard about the Nobel Prize but did you know what Alfred Nobel was famous for before?
Dynamite. He was known as the Merchant of Death
The story goes he read his own obituary that was mistakenly his brother, after that he wanted to leave his name with a ‘better’ legacy so the Nobel Prize was born
But yeah, some money can literally rewrite history
Thankfully we got @wikipedia
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We all have heard about the Nobel Prize but did you know what Alfred Nobel was famous for before?
Dynamite. He was known as the Merchant of Death
The story goes he read his own obituary that was mistakenly his brother, after that he wanted to leave his name with a ‘better’ legacy so the Nobel Prize was born
But yeah, some money can literally rewrite history
Thankfully we got @wikipedia
@stux @wikipedia
as far as I know dear Bertha von Suttner had some inspiring influence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttnermaybe it's a myth told only in Austria,
being a Pacifist and having authored
"Lay Down Your Arms"
(Die Waffen nieder!)
I confident, she nudge Nobel towards a better path -
We all have heard about the Nobel Prize but did you know what Alfred Nobel was famous for before?
Dynamite. He was known as the Merchant of Death
The story goes he read his own obituary that was mistakenly his brother, after that he wanted to leave his name with a ‘better’ legacy so the Nobel Prize was born
But yeah, some money can literally rewrite history
Thankfully we got @wikipedia
@stux @wikipedia in fact lots of rich people do this. It’s why the Koch brothers have their name on the building that houses the NYC Ballet, the reason the Ford Foundation gave lots of money to theater companies. And lots of public libraries were funded by American Robber Barons.
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We all have heard about the Nobel Prize but did you know what Alfred Nobel was famous for before?
Dynamite. He was known as the Merchant of Death
The story goes he read his own obituary that was mistakenly his brother, after that he wanted to leave his name with a ‘better’ legacy so the Nobel Prize was born
But yeah, some money can literally rewrite history
Thankfully we got @wikipedia
@stux Did the recent Veritasium video inspire this post? :3
