Seán MacBride

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Commemorative medal of Nobel Prize winner, Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals

7 Nobel Prize Scandals

Rainbow flag hangs from building. Sign of diversity, inclusiveness, hope, yearning. Gay pride flag popularized by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. Inspired by Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow. gay rights, homosexual, gays, LGBT community

Ireland’s Same-Sex Marriage Referendum

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Alfred Nobel on a large reproduction of the obverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Peace on the exterior of Nobel Peace Center opened in Oslo, Norway June 11, 2005 to learn about Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and the history of Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

How Do You Get a Nobel Prize?

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

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Born	January 26, 1904 • Paris • France
Died	January 15, 1988 (aged 83) • Dublin • Ireland
Title / Office	foreign minister (1948-1951), Ireland • Dáil (1947-1958)
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1974)

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French jurist

Michael D. Higgins

president of Ireland

Mary Robinson

president of Ireland

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar politician and opposition leader

Andrey Sakharov

Soviet physicist and dissident

Narges Mohammadi

Iranian human rights activist

Kailash Satyarthi

Indian social reformer

Nadia Murad

Iraqi human rights activist

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian lawyer, author and teacher

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

bishop of East Timor

Henri Dunant

Swiss humanitarian

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Argentine sculptor and architect

David Trimble

British politician

John Hume

Irish leader

Máiread Maguire

Northern Irish peace activist

Betty Williams

Northern Irish activist

William Henry O’Shea

Irish nationalist

Leo Varadkar

prime minister of Ireland

Charles Stewart Parnell

Irish leader

Micheál Martin

prime minister of Ireland

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