Baker’s Dozen III

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Inventions that changed the world, that we can’t imagine being without

  1. The wheel
  2. The number zero
  3. the alphabet
  4. Clothing
  5. Money
  6. The screw
  7. Fire
  8. The plow
  9. Cars
  10. The internal combustion engine
  11. The printing press
  12. Indoor plumbing
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Inventions that changed the world, that we can’t imagine being without

  1. The wheel
  2. The number zero
  3. the alphabet
  4. Clothing
  5. Money
  6. The screw
  7. Fire
  8. The plow
  9. Cars
  10. The internal combustion engine
  11. The printing press
  12. Indoor plumbing
  13. Music

Louis Armstrong has a song about it, "Ten Feet off the Ground ".

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945

The first Latin American author to win

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904

Yes, that Ivan Pavlov

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945

  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904

  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945

  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904

  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014

  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905

The first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994

The man that A Beautiful Mind was written about.

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907

The first English-language winner and still, at age 41, the youngest.

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
  9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903

The first female laureate, the first married couple to win jointly, and the first of 5 Nobels for members of the Curie family

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
  9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903
  10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906

“For his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world’s great powers, Japan and Russia…”

Pass.

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It’s Baker’s Dozen, and we’re only at 10.

Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
  9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903
  10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906
  11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009

People were split om whether he’d actually done much to deserve it. Even as a Democrat, I feel he got the award simply for not being George Bush.

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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
  9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903
  10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906
  11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009
  12. Albert Einstein, Physics, 1921
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Nobel Prize laureates, any field

  1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945
  2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904
  3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014
  4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945
  5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905
  6. John Nash, Economics, 1994
  7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016
  9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903
  10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906
  11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009
  12. Albert Einstein, Physics, 1921
  13. Milton Friedman, Economics, 1976

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Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards

  1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973)
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Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards

  1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973)
  2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics)
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Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards

  1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973)
  2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics)
  3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for The English Patient, 1992

The Booker Prize is given each year for the best single work of fiction written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

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Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards

  1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973)
  2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics)
  3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for The English Patient, 1992
  4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film Jurassic Park, 1994

The Hugo Award, named for Hugo Gernsback, is for science fiction.

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Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards

  1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973)
  2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics)
  3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for The English Patient, 1992
  4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film Jurassic Park,1994
  5. Jenny Erpenbeck, International Booker Prize, 2024

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