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Baroness Bertha Von Suttner became the second female Nobel laureate in 1905, and the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. She was a novelist, journalist, and advocate in the general peace movement in Austria. She railed against growing arms race between countries, was a major proponent for the establishment of an International Court of Justice, and founded the German Peace Society. She died at the age of 71 on June 21, 1914, only a few months before the very type of conflict she hoped the world would avoid, World War I.
Marie Curie was the first woman to be a Nobel laureate.
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This being the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended major fighting in WWI, SilverMedals.net presents “second” facts about the Great War.
The armistice1 that ended the fighting in World War I was signed by representatives from Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, at 5AM on 11/11/1918, in a railroad carriage in Compiègne, France, but the agreement didn’t go into effect for another six hours. WWI would end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which was fine for those who…read more
French Corporal Jules André Peugeot was 21 years old when he was shot and killed by a German patrol. Although he was the first soldier to get shot in WWI, he ended up being the second person to die from his wounds. The person who shot Peugeot, German Lieutenant Albert Mayer, was the first person to actually die in WWI,…read more
