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Did you know that morphine is named after the greek god of dreams “Morpheus”?

16February2012HachPostsDid you know?, Ideagora, Morphine

Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner a German pharmacist, who first isolated morphine from opium in 1806, named it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

Did you know that Joseph Stalin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?

12February2012Hach314 CommentsPostsDid you know?, Ideagora, Stalin

In 1945, Stalin was nominated by Halvdan Koht among seven candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. The person actually nominated was Cordell Hull. And In 1948, he was officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Wladislav Rieger. Source: Wiki

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