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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace

For helping negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature

The fist person named Mistral (no relation) to win the Literature prize.

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry

The only woman to win 2 Nobels; part of 5 Nobels won by the Curie family.

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Sigrid Undset, Lit

One who really deserves it. Read an old translation, the recent one reads like modern women’s trash novels, with no fidelity to the original wording. There is a lovely short animated film related to her, well worth the 15 minutes to enjoy it:

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  7. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
  9. Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
  9. Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi, Peace

One of my favorites: Aung San Suu Kyi - Wikipedia

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
  9. Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi, Peace
  11. Rosalyn Yalow, Medicine
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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
  9. Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi, Peace
  11. Rosalyn Yalow, Medicine
  12. Seamus Heaney, Literature

A wonderful poet!

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Nobel Prize winners and their category

  1. Gabriela Mistral, Literature
  2. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace
  3. Frédéric Mistral, Liereature
  4. Marie Curie, Physics & Chemistry
  5. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Literature, 1970
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
  7. Sigrid Undset, Lit
  8. Malala Yousafzai, Peace
  9. Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi, Peace
  11. Rosalyn Yalow, Medicine
  12. Seamus Heaney, Literature
  13. Woodrow Wilson, Peace

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)

Believe it or not, just a few hours ago, I was contemplating opening a topic of frivolous imaginary team names, like Hannibal Lecters, or Victoria Secrets.

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
  4. Roswell Invaders (Independent, Pecos League)

Complete with an alien on its team logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_Invaders

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
  4. Roswell Invaders (Independent, Pecos League)
  5. Durham Bulls (Triple A, Tampa Bay Rays)

Featured in the 1988 movie Bull Durham; originally known as the Durham Tobacconists.

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
  4. Roswell Invaders (Independent, Pecos League)
  5. Durham Bulls (Triple A, Tampa Bay Rays)
  6. Vermont Lake Monsters (A League, Oakland Athletics)

Named after “Champ” the supposed sea serpent that lives in Lake Champlain.

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
  4. Roswell Invaders (Independent, Pecos League)
  5. Durham Bulls (Triple A, Tampa Bay Rays)
  6. Vermont Lake Monsters (A League, Oakland Athletics)
  7. Lansing Lugnuts (A League, Toronto Blue Jays)

I’ve actually attended both Beach Bums and Mud Hens games. Great fun.

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Amusing or interesting real minor league baseball team names

  1. Albuquerque Isotopes (Double-A, Colorado Rockies)
  2. Traverse City Beach Bums (Independent, Frontier League)
  3. Toledo Mud Hens (Triple A, Detroit Tigers)
  4. Roswell Invaders (Independent, Pecos League)
  5. Durham Bulls (Triple A, Tampa Bay Rays)
  6. Vermont Lake Monsters (A League, Oakland Athletics)
  7. Lansing Lugnuts (A League, Toronto Blue Jays)
  8. Pensacola Blue Wahoos (Double A, Cincinnati Reds)