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The prize has been withheld 19 times since 1901, including during both world wars.
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Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Trump warns of another world war, and yet here, too, his policies seem designed to encourage aggression and destabilize the international order.
—The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
The pandemic, according to the Pan American Health Organization, killed 675,000 Americans – more than the nation’s death toll in both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam War combined.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
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Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Trump warns of another world war, and yet here, too, his policies seem designed to encourage aggression and destabilize the international order.
—The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
The pandemic, according to the Pan American Health Organization, killed 675,000 Americans – more than the nation’s death toll in both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam War combined.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
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