NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CURIOSITIES

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All Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway. The founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, was a Swedish cosmopolitan. In his will, he declared that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded by a Norwegian committee. 
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.
Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.
Adolf Hitler was nominated once in 1939. Incredulous though it may seem today, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt.


Answer some questions: 

a) Tell me two people who were awarded the Prize the first year they were nominated.
b) Tell me the name of a woman who was nominated 91 times before being awarded. 
c) Tell me who was nominated during 5 consecutive years and at the end he died before receiving it. The Norwegian Committee decided to make no award that year. 




Comments

  1. Gaspar 2º C16 October 2014 at 10:42

    a) Theodore Roosevelt and Fridtjof Nansen.
    b) Jane Addams.
    c) Mahatma Gandhi.

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  2. Unknown20 October 2014 at 12:33

    a)Fridtjof Nansen and Theodore Roosevelt.
    b) Jane adams
    c)Mahatma Gandhi.


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  3. Eduardo carretero carrilero 2º B6 December 2014 at 03:01

    A)Fridtjof Nansen and Theodore Roosevelt
    B)Jane Adams
    C) Mahatma Gandhi

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