2007
Doris Lessing – Prose
Prose
English Excerpt from The Grass is Singing MURDER MYSTERY By Special Correspondent Mary Turner, wife of Richard Turner, a farmer at Ngesi, was found murdered on the front veranda of their homestead yesterday morning. The houseboy, who has been arrested, has confessed to the crime. No motive has been discovered. It is thought he was…
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Doris Lessing – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in ’56, there was…
moreDoris Lessing – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Artist: Karin Mamma Andersson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult
moreGerhard Ertl – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on 10 October 1936 in Bad Cannstatt which is part of the city of Stuttgart in the southwest of Germany. When I was 3 years old, the family moved to the nearby village of Schmiden where I entered elementary school in 1942. In summer 1946, I was admitted to Johannes Kepler Gymnasium…
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Al Gore – Other resources
Other resources
Links to other sites Videos Al Gore: ‘What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘New thinking on the climate crisis’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘Averting the climate crisis ‘ from TED Talks.
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