Alva Reimer Myrdal

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Atomic cloud formation from the Baker Day explosion over the Bikini Atoll; photo created July 25, 1946. (Test Baker, mushroom cloud, underwater nuclear explosion)

Why Does a Mushroom Cloud Look Like a Mushroom?

Smoke billowing 20,000 feet above Hiroshima, Japan, from the first atomic bomb every dropped in World War II.

70 Years After Hiroshima

National Museum of Fine Arts. National museum building located on peninsula Blasieholmen in city centre with near Lake Malaren channel view from old town quarter Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden

14 Significant Paintings at Nationalmuseum in Sweden

Flag of Sweden

16 Paintings You Can See (in Person) Only in Sweden

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The First Atomic Bombs Tested and Used During World War II

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Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

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Born	January 31, 1902 • Uppsala • Sweden
Died	February 1, 1986 (aged 84) • near Stockholm • Sweden
Title / Office	parliament (1962-1966), Sweden
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1982)
Notable Family Members	spouse Gunnar Myrdal
Subjects Of Study	nuclear weapon • disarmament

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld

Swedish statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Swedish politician

Bernadotte, Folke, Greve

Greve Folke Bernadotte

Swedish diplomat

Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari

president of Finland

Ralph Bunche, 1951.

Ralph Bunche

American diplomat

Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson

prime minister of Canada

Branting, detail from an oil painting by Richard Bergh; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Swedish statesman

Blix, Hans

Hans Blix

Swedish diplomat

Nansen, Fridtjof

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian explorer and scientist

Annan, Kofi

Kofi Annan

Ghanaian statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations

Murad, Nadia

Nadia Murad

Iraqi human rights activist

Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull

United States statesman

Lord Noel-Baker.

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

British statesman

Cassin, René

René Cassin

French jurist

Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'

Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant

French diplomat

Douglas Richard Hurd

British diplomat

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

prime minister of Israel

George H.W. Bush

George H.W. Bush

president of United States

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

American diplomat, humanitarian and first lady

Samantha Power

Samantha Power

American journalist and government official