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Edgar Allan Poe Museum

The Poe Museum

Richmond, VA

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Alfred Nobel Born

February 10, 2022

October 21st, 1833: Swedish inventor and chemist Alfred Nobel was born. Nobel’s most prolific invention was dynamite. After his death, Nobel bequeathed his vast fortune to found the Nobel Prize which, to this day, is awarded to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind.”

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