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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Suvin1122" data-source="post: 7144475" data-attributes="member: 177083">8. Alfred Nobel 1833-1897 <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/pict-20070507pht06394.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/pict-20070507pht06394-tm.jpg?w=214&h=300" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Discovering the use of nitroglycerine in his invention of dynamite,  Nobel gave the world its first mass-produced use of deadly explosives.  Killing first his own brother Emil and several others in a factory  accident, the future death toll from his creation will number in the  hundreds of thousands. Eventually he used his significant earned wealth  to fund the yearly Nobel Prize to distract people from his invention,  after reading his own obituary (mistakenly printed as he was not  actually dead) which called him the “Merchant of Death”.</blockquote>

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