Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive that was invented in 1866 by Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel and patented by him a year later. Nobel is most familiar to us today as the founder of the Nobel Prize. Ma...
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I believe something unsuccessful can still have some value or have more value than something successful. Alfred Nobel's dynamites were considered successful by many who worked in mines and on railroa...
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The Early PioneerThe first step towards dynamite was taken in 1846, when the
Italian chemist
Ascanio
Sobrero
invented nitroglycerine. It was a crucial moment in history, but
Sobrero
would later...
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SANTA CRUZ (Reuters) - Attackers threw sticks of
dynamite at a house next to the Venezuelan consulate and at a
Cuban doctors' house in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz early
Monday, in what Bolivia...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. hadn't stopped talking since he signed up for the one thing he really wanted, a megafight with Oscar De La Hoya that put boxing back in the spotlight.When the two met at Friday...
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Gunmen dynamited the front gate of a residential compound in southern Nigeria on Saturday and kidnapped three Indians in an attack that left one Nigerian dead, the military said.Security forces int...
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The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested Tuesday after he was spotted on a highway overpass wearing an Osama bin Laden Hallowe...
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Saboteurs bombed a water pipeline to a government-owned oil refinery in southern Nigeria overnight, according to a military official who said Saturday the attack had not affected production.Brig. G...
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Saboteurs bombed a water pipeline to an oil refinery in southern Nigeria overnight, according to a military official who said Saturday the attack had not affected production.Brig. Gen. Alfred Ilogh...
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A small explosion Wednesday followed by a bomb scare in two Christian neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital caused no injuries or damage but created huge traffic jams and panic among some residents...
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The silver, zinc and other metals under Bolivian soil are fetching their highest prices in decades, and Evo Morales has dedicated his presidency to claiming a larger share of the money for his coun...
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Dynamite
Value in the Unsuccessful
A Brief History of Dynamite
