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 Nemesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A nemesis is a seemingly unbeatable or unconquerable enemy, often used as a foil to the protagonist, where interaction between the hero and his antagonist forms the main conflict of the story.
Nemesis (Transformers) – a starship in the fictional universe of the Transformers.
Nemesis (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis) is the name of a deadly B.O.W. (bio-organic weapon) made by the Umbrella Corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemesis   (380 words)

  
 Nemesis
Nemesis (Asimov) Nemesis is a future history into which he attempted to integrate his science fiction output.
Nemesis (DC Comics) Nemesis is a The Brave and the Bold #166.
Nemesis (Nobel) Nemesis is a tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel, the man behind the Nobel Prizes.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/nemesis.html   (217 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel and Literature
Nobel's will, dated 1895, is the final testimony to his lifelong love of poetry: one of the prizes was to be awarded to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
Nobel's philosophical thoughts on atoms, the cosmos and the development of the modern conception of the universe are based on Democritus, Giordano Bruno, Leibniz's theory of monads and von Humboldt's world-view.
Nobel was in many respects a man of the pen: he was continuously writing letters, noting down all kinds of fanciful ideas and plans for inventions, philosophising over the origin of the cosmos and the evolution of man, discussing questions of faith and knowledge, war and peace.
nobelprize.org /nobel/alfred-nobel/biographical/erlandsson   (2084 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on Oct. 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden, and was the fourth son of Immanuel and Caroline Nobel.
Nobel's second important invention was that of dynamite in 1867.
Nobel himself, however, remains a figure of paradoxes and contradictions: a brilliant, lonely man, part pessimist and part idealist, who invented the powerful explosives used in modern warfare but also established the world's most prestigious prizes for intellectual services rendered to humanity.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/427_33.html   (1452 words)

  
 South African Nobel Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 21 October 1833.
Nobel and his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia when he was still young.
Nobel realised that nitroglycerin in a fluid state was extremely dangerous.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/great-safricans/nobel-alfred.htm   (445 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Alfred Nobel is interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated with an absorbent, inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.
In a sense the technological prizes announced recently by the World Technology Network are an indirect (and thus not funded by the Nobel foundation) continuation of the wishes of Alfred Nobel, as he set them out in his testament.
alfred-nobel.biography.ms   (820 words)

  
 Nemesis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nemesis (Christie) – a (Novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end) detective novel by (Prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)) Agatha Christie.
Nemesis (film) – a (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction movie released in (Click link for more info and facts about 1993) 1993 that spawned three sequels.
Nemesis is the name of a deadly biomechanical assassin made by the Umbrella Coorporation.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nemesis.htm   (627 words)

  
 info: ALFRED NOBEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Alfred Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872), born in Stockholm, but, at an early age he went with his family to St.
Some years later Nobel produced ballistite, one of the earliest of the nitroglycerin smokeless gunpowders, containing in its latest forms about equal parts of gun-cotton and nitroglycerin.
The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning his invention of dynamite, is said to have made him decide to leave a better legacy to the world after his death.
www.digital-innovations.net /Alfred_Nobel   (886 words)

  
 Freeway - The Nobelfiest
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish inventor and scientist, who invented the dynamite in the middle of the 19th century.
Nobel worked hard on a solution and tried to find an explosive material that united the nitroglycerin's power with the dynamite's saftey.
Nobel confirmed in his will that most of his estate, worth more than 3.9 million ecu (today approximately 187 000 ecu) should be converted into a fund and invested in "safe securities".
free1.freeway.org /issue5/culture/nobelfesten.html   (1124 words)

  
 NEMESIS
In these shapes the pair mated, and as a result Nemesis later laid an egg from which the famous beauty Helen of Troy hatched (however, it is important to remember that other versions of the birth of Helen claim that it was Leda who laid this egg).
In this ritual the Greek Goddess Nemesis, a deity of fate and vengeance, is seen in the role of being the complementary opposite of ones ego referring to the inner self as the center of both personalities.
Nemesis is a theoretical astronomical body whose existence has been suggested as a possible driving force for periodic mass-extinction episodes.
www.telema.20m.com /nemesis.htm   (5585 words)

  
 Nemesis biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nemesis (Asimov) - a science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov.
Nemesis (Christie) - a detective novel by Agatha Christie.
Nemesis (Transformers) - a starship in the fictional universe of the Transformers.
nemesis.biography.ms   (151 words)

  
 Nemesis, Proposed Companion Star to the Sun and Mass Extinctions on Earth
Nemesis was the culmination of a chain of events that began in 1977, in Gubbio, Italy, a tiny village halfway between Rome and Florence.
As envisioned by Muller, Davis, and Hut, Nemesis is probably a red dwarf, the most common type of star in the galaxy (three-fourths of all the stars in the Milky Way are believed to be red dwarfs).
Less than a third the size of the sun and about one one-thousandth as bright, Nemesis might travel in an elliptical orbit that at its perihelion (closest point) brings it within a half light year of the sun (one light year is about six trillion miles) and into the midst of the Oort Cloud.
www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/extinctions-nemesis.html   (4559 words)

  
 The Miracle Strain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nemesis is a fervent Christian, who works for a 2,000-year old secret organization, The Brotherhood.
Nemesis is a young woman who was rescued from a life of sexual abuse in a convent, and trained by the Brotherhood to carry out their missions against the blasphemers of the world.
Nemesis is quite offended by Dr. Carter's blasphemous activities and is particularly irked when she fails to kill him also, the first time she has ever failed.
members.tgforum.com /ElizabethParker/miraclestrain.htm   (408 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel
The Nobel judges are most likely conventionally Christian themselves, and they have a tendency to favor smaller countries and to be influenced by political considerations when awarding prizes.
Nemesis was based on The Cenci, a blank verse tragedy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose Atheism was well known.
It is at least plausible that Nobel's idea of idealism in literature and humanitarian work might instead have favored those who fight for their ideals against such authorities as God, Church, and State.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1021almanac.htm   (397 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Austrian novelist and poet Elfriede Jelinek wins Nobel prize for literature
Nobel prize-winning Austrian novelist and poet Elfriede Jelinek.
Photo: PA The Nobel prize for literature has this year been awarded to the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek.
The Swedish Academy, which has given the award to a European nine times in the last 10 years, cited the "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in her novels and plays," and her "extraordinary linguistic zeal, which reveals the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power" as it announced its decision at lunchtime today.
books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1322067,00.html?=rss   (484 words)

  
 Premio Nobel de Literaturo - Vikipedio
La testamento de Alfred Nobel enhavas postulon pri la literatura premio, kiu kaŭzis multan konfuzon: ĝi estu donata al verkisto kiu agis "en ideala direkto" (svede i idealisk rigtning).
Nun, kiam oni povas finfine legi la solan beletraĵon de Nobel mem - la teatraĵo Nemesis/Nemeza - oni povas konstati, ke ĝuste Fo kaj Saramago eble estis la unuaj premiitoj tute laŭ la gusto de la doninto, ke "ideala" por li signifis lukti por siaj idealoj kontraŭ dio, eklezio, ŝtato kaj aliaj aŭtoritatoj.
La Premion Nobel de Literaturo estas donita laŭ decido de la Sveda Akademio.
eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Premio_Nobel_de_Literaturo   (196 words)

  
 Alfred Nobel - the Poet
Nobel was an occasional poet: he mainly resorted to the pen in order to divert his thoughts when he felt lonely, was tired of business and plagued by intrigues.
During the most hectic phases of his life, Nobel was obliged to put his literary interests aside, particularly at the beginning of his career when experiments, financial problems, incessant travel and a burgeoning industrial empire devoured the bulk of his time.
There can be no doubt that Nobel applauded Shelley's indictment of the church and all forms of abuse of power and that he was more than capable of appreciating his high-minded tone, his idealism and love of liberty.
nobelprize.org /nobel/alfred-nobel/biographical/erlandsson-2   (5056 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from Nobel, Alfred Bernhard) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world.
Nobel, nevertheless, left much of his fortune for the Nobel prizes to promote world peace, advance scientific knowledge, and encourage...
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, left more than 9 million dollars of his fortune to found the Nobel prizes.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=92926   (879 words)

  
 PIONEERS OF MICROBIOLOGY AND THE NOBEL PRIZE
It is interesting to see how they were judged by their peers at the Karolinska Institutet when they were considered for the Nobel Prize.
Pioneers of Microbiology and the Nobel Prize has been written in such a way that it can be enjoyed even without an extensive knowledge of microbiology and medicine.
In fact, a considerable part of the book portrays the state of medicine during the middle of the 19th century, when bacteriology can be said to have made its debut on the medical scene.
www.worldscibooks.com /medsci/5161.html   (767 words)

  
 Nemesis
A play by Alfred Nobel, see Nemesis (Nobel)
A hypothetical companion star of the Sun, see Nemesis (star)
A science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov, see Nemesis (Asimov)
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nemesis.html   (150 words)

  
 Richard Muller
He created a program at Berkeley to measure the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave radiation, and is credited with the discovery of the great "cosine in the sky" that yields the velocity the Milky Way with respect to the rest of the Universe.
He initiated a supernova discovery program at Berkeley, eventually taken over by his student Saul Perlmutter, who went on to discover the acceleration of the Universe's expansion and the "cosmological constant." His most notorious work is as coauthor of the "Nemesis theory," proposing that the sun is part of a widely-spaced double star system.
He is the author of four books: "Nemesis", "The Three Big Bangs", "Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes", and "The Sins of Jesus" (a novel).
calspace.ucsd.edu /Seminar_MullerBio.htm   (301 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Nobel's play to get Swedish debut
A play written by Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel is to be performed in his home country of Sweden.
Nemesis, a four-act tragedy, will open at Strindbergs Intima theatre in Stockholm on 10 December - the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded.
Nobel wrote the play during the last year of his life and it was not published until he was dying.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4206168.stm   (167 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Nobel Prize goes to Protestant, Catholic peace organizers 10/17/98
Trimble, 54, embattled chief of the Protestant party pivotal to the peacemaking efforts, the Nobel was more controversial -- particularly considering the omission of his nemesis, Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party.
The Oslo Nobel judges previously have used their award to encourage progress in peacemaking -- most notably in the Middle East, where Israel's Menachim Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat shared honors in 1978, and when Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat joined Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994.
While the Nobel committee noted that April's peace agreement also was the work of the governments of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, it did not include any reference to Mr.
www.augustachronicle.com /stories/101798/fea_124-5458.shtml   (764 words)

  
 An Explosive Literary Legacy
His only play, "Nemesis," an obscure tragedy in four acts, will be performed for the first time at a small theater in Stockholm on Dec. 10 -- the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded.
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, also created the Nobel Prizes.
It is challenging and private and deals with many things that one does not associate with Nobel," said Ture Rangstrom, head of the Intima theater, where it will be staged.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202221.html?nav=rss_print/style   (279 words)

  
 Nemesis (Nobel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nemesis is a tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel, the man behind the Nobel Prizes.
The play was written, in prose, shortly before his death and printed while he was dying.
Following Nobel's death the entire printed edition was destroyed, except for three copies.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/nemesis__nobel_   (110 words)

  
 Michael Cordy: "The miracle strain"
Tom Carter is a scientist, who got the Nobel Prize for Medicine because he had developed a Genescope, which reads your Gens and tells you everything about your body, also on which disease you will fall ill.
Normally, he should have died but the killer, known as Nemesis, missed him and shot his wife.
So Nemesis had been sent by them to kill him but she had failed.
www.krref.krefeld.schulen.net /referate/englisch/r0298t00.htm   (911 words)

  
 The Philippa Huckle Group Limited
No matter where you are on the investment learning curve you can apply this Nobel Prize winner’s research to build a better portfolio and avoid the mistakes of the past three years.
If you have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, society has an Olympian expectation that you’ve done something brilliant in managing your own money.
At the core of any Nobel laureate’s research is an elegant truth.
www.philippahuckle.com /nobel.html   (628 words)

  
 Morgan Le Fay: Queen of Avalon.
Morgan Le Fay is and her nine sisters represent the divined natural order of the world similar to the way the Greek nymphs who were responsible for tree, bodies of water, and keeping the natural world in order.
Arthur wanted nothing less than to create a perfect world in which each person is equal, and is dealt with fairly.
And by Morgan's sister and his half-sister Morgause the wife of Lot of Orkney, Arthur begot Mordred who grew up to become his nemesis and who eventually caused Arthur's death, and the destruction of Camelot.
waltm.net /lefay2.htm   (589 words)

  
 tribuneindia... Editorial
Not only have the hopes of the Republicans of improving their position in the Senate and the Congress been belied but also they have barely held their position in the Senate and lost four seats, possibly six, in the House of Representatives.
T a hurriedly called Press conference on October 15 in New York, after the announcement of the Economics Nobel Prize for him, Prof Amartya Sen said the basic problem of India was that it had ignored education, health care and land reforms.
Apparently, this is a nemesis for the killers of the father of a nation.
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov10/edit.htm   (7096 words)

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