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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Three judges choose five finalists before…The World's Worst Pollution Problems, 2011
According to the Blacksmith Institute, "this report gives an overview of the range of pollution threats humans face throughout the world." Each problem listed below exists in more…August 1999 News and Events
1999 News Month-By-Month World China Launches Long-Range Missile (Aug. 2): Announcement is unusual. Beijing attacks U.S. for sale of military equipment to Taiwan in middle of crisis. NATO…Azerbaijan Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Azerbaijan Index: Historical Highlights Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense and Military Issues Foreign Relations U.S.-Azerbaijan…Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
The following table lists every winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, from 1901 through 2016. For years not listed, no award was made. 1901Emil A. von Behring (Germany), for…pollution
(Encyclopedia) pollution, contamination of the environment as a result of human activities. The term pollution refers primarily to the fouling of air, water, and land by wastes (see air pollution;…Trending
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