How Nobel Prizes Are Awarded and What They Reward
The article explains Alfred Nobel's endowment funding five annual prizes in physics chemistry physiology or medicine literature and peace. It describes the governing bodies the allocation process and the annual prize value about forty thousand dollars with distribution each December 10.
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Alfred B. Nobel
Swedish Academy of Science
Caroline Institute
Stockholm
Nobel
Philadelphia Press
Auld fools gambol and the Dead Sea impression
A note on the origin of April Fools Day naming and a tale of auld fools gam bol from London Answers. It describes a druidic superstition with girls in a sacred grove and a white man apparition, and recounts a bridge to the Dead Sea's still, silent shores near Jerusalem with buoyant salty waters and oppressive quiet.
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Dead Sea
Jerusalem
Shelley and the Kies and Lovers in Verse
The piece notes Shelley's prominence in short lyrics with lines about mountains waves sunlight and moonbeams kissing the sea It asks what such kissings are worth if not given to the speaker It also cites a London Tit Bits anecdote about a nurse who married an old wealthy man saying nursing one old man was as good as a dozen
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Shelley
London
Albany
Satinte
New York Sun
An Opportunist
An Opportunist defines a man who did something worthwhile that others thought he could have done equally well if not preoccupied when opportunity arrived. The Detroit Free Press presents a concise, ironic reflection on merit and luck.
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Chance
Detroit Free Press
Atlantic Liners and Wireless Begin Five Minute Messages
The first wireless message occurs five minutes after a steamer sails from her pier. Transatlantic ships use Sea Gate while coastwise lines contact a top Broadway station. The process uses short aerograms and quick replies as passengers say farewells, with messages delivered nationwide within an hour.
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Sea Gate
Lower Broadway
Francis Arnold Colling
St. Nicholas
United States
Umbrella Up Hat On In Courtyard Quip Sparked by Judge
A young lawyer stood before a Washington judge with an umbrella under his arm and his hat on his head. In his agitation he forgot to remove hat as he began speaking the court suggested raising the umbrella for decorum.
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Washington
Punishment in the Shed Over a Pipe Incident
A humorous snippet from Fliegende Blatter describes Hans being caught smoking his father's pipe in the shed. His father orders him to finish the pipe rather than inflict a beating, highlighting a quirky parental response.
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Hans
Prescription Joke Shows Costly Bedside Help
A quip notes a husband avoiding his wife who is a doctor for a cold citing expense. He recalls past treatment where she prescribed six weeks in the Riviera and accompanied him, underscoring humor about medical care costs.
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Riviera
Endings and Beginnings in Words of Longfellow
A concise reflection on writing that contrasts great starts with the craft of finishing. The quote emphasizes process, discipline, and the achievement of a complete work through deliberate closure.
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