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- 61: Elie Wiesel
- ... Dreamers. The first volume of his memoirs, "All Rivers Run to the Sea" was published in New York by Knopf publishers in December 1995. THIS IS ELIE PICTURED WEARING HIS NOBEL PRIZE MEDAL THAT HE WON IN 1986 He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of Liberty Award and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in improving the living conditions, and promoting the understanding and global acceptance of Jews. For this same reason, Mr. Wiesel was presented with an Ellis ...
- 62: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... the "Aryan" ideal. The unfortunate truth is that the Holocaust is a subject whose gravity is obvious, but it is easy to become almost numb to it. As Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and famous Holocaust survivor has said, "the essense of this tragedy is that it can never be fully conveyed." When viewing this site, think about the individual people in ... had some prejudices held against them but they were becoming more and more accepted. Interfaith marriages were on the rise and many Jews were prominent citizens: fourteen of the 38 Nobel Prizes awarded to Germans went to Jews. This was about to change, and for the worse. Laws were instituted against Jews forcing them out of public life, i.e. civil ...
- 63: William Faulkner
- ... a contemporary American author who has achieved greatness as an author. He is already considered to be one of the world’s greatest novelists and has been awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. This is quite an achievement as it is the highest prize that can be awarded to an author. Of all of Faulkner’s achievements, "The ... in Yoknapatawpha County as it increasingly connected to the modern world. William Faulkner is an esteemed writer of the 1900’s and proves to be so as he received the Nobel Prize for literature. William Faulkner died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.
- 64: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... He managed to look beyond the walls of his laboratory. This vision enabled him to become the Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb as well as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace. He used his knowledge to create, educate, and lead. Sakharov became an engineer in a military plant at the age of 17. He was anxious to help ... about pollution, overpopulation and the need for a new form of government. His writings and his outspokenness got him fired from the bomb project, however in 1975 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Sakharov ended his life as an elected member of the Soviet Parliament. Andrei Sakharov never lost his love for his country and dedicated all his talents to better ...
- 65: Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore RabindranathTagore was an Indian poet, philosopher, and Nobel laureate. He was born in 1861 in Calcutta, India, into a wealthy family. He was the son of Debendranath Tagore, a philosopher. Rabindranath Tagore began to write poetry as a ... primarily in Bengali, but translated a number of his works into English himself. Tagore’s writing is full of imagination, religion, and his love of his homeland and nature. The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to him in 1913. He was knighted by the British king, George V in 1915, but renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the massacre of ...
- 66: Albert Camus
- Albert Camus was a French-Algerian novelist, essayist, dramatist, and journalist and a Nobel laureate. He was born in Algeria to a French father and Spanish mother. After his father was killed in WWI, he was raised in poverty by his grandmother and mother ... human solutions to their plight. He used a simple and clear but elegant form of writing to convey his ideas about morality, justice and love. In 1957, Camus received the Nobel price for literature. He was deeply troubled by the Algerian War of Independence and he immersed himself in the theatre and working on an autobiographical novel. He died in an ...
- 67: Five Imporant Events Of The 19
- ... sure, that no President of the United States will ever ride in a open convertible again without the fear of being attacked. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a American clergyman, Nobel Prize winner, the main leader in the civil rights movement, and a advocate of nonviolent protests. He challenged segregation and racial discrimination during the 1950s and 1960s. He also successful ... Rights Act of 1964. The act prohibited segregation in public accommodations, and discrimination in education and employment. King’s speeches against discrimination and teachings of nonviolence protests, won him a Nobel Prize for peace in 1964. Later in 1965, king and the SCLC marched from Selma, Alabama to the capital of Alabama, Montgomery more then 50 miles away to join a ...
- 68: Albert Camus
- ... in life. Later he remarried happily and fathered twins; he wrote novels, essays, notebooks, plays and translations of plays; he also suffered from severe bouts of tuberculosis. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1987. He was the third youngest individual to win that prize at that time. He left a body of work that has occupied the minds and ... from bouts of it later in life. It is probable that this disease helped to shape some of his thinking and approach to life. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This prestigious prize, which gives both worldwide recognition of the writer’s place in the world of literature, as well as a substantial financial award, came to ...
- 69: East-timor-conflict
- ... engagement for a peaceful solution of the conflict the East Timorese bishop Carlos Belo and the abroad acting speaker of the resistance movement José Ramos-Horta were awarded for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996. 1949 the Indonesian Republic were founded as an independent country on until then Dutch colonial region in South East Asian. This included West Timor but not ... UNAMET staff and international media wasn't enough, so the Council decided to send a "fact-finding mission" to Jakarta. On the morning of September, the 6th, the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ximenes Belo, was set on fire. The bishop sought refugee in Baucau, though he was impotent to save the hundreds of refugees in his frontyard, now facing ...
- 70: Elie Wiesel Biography
- ... Dreamers. The first volume of his memoirs, "All Rivers Run to the Sea" was published in New York by Knopf publishers in December 1995. THIS IS ELIE PICTURED WEARING HIS NOBEL PRIZE MEDAL THAT HE WON IN 1986 He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of Liberty Award and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in improving the living conditions, and promoting the understanding and global acceptance of Jews. For this same reason, Mr. Wiesel was presented with an Ellis ...
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