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Vaknin, Sam, 1961-

"The First Book of Factoids"

"Mare" means goblin in Old English.

http://psychology.about.com/cs/dream/

http://www.shpm.com/articles/dreams/index.shtml

Nobel Prizes

The Nobel prizes are awarded on December 10.
In 1911, the Polish-French scientist, Marie Curie, became the first
person to win a second Nobel prize for the discovery of radium &
polonium. Her second prize was in Chemistry. She won her first Nobel
prize in physics only eight years earlier, in 1903.

Marie Curie was also the first woman to win the prize and
a member of the first couple, together with her husband,
Pierre, to win the coveted award (in 1903).
Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1954 and The Nobel
prize for Peace in 1962.
http://www.nobel.se/

Nokia

Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was
founded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one,
Frederik Idestam, as a wood-pulp mill. An eponymous town formed around
it. Independently, the Finnish Rubber Works took on the town name in
the 1920s, having been established there in 1898.
The Nokia rubber company acquired Finnish Cable Works - another
enterprise located in Nokia since 1912.


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