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“I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.”

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Alfred Nobel, a chemist, was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden, and died on December 10, 1896. Nobel is known for his invention of dynamite and for establishing the Nobel Prize. more

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