Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is friday….

Today the 2013 Noble peace prize will be awarded.

Albert Noble put aside a perpetual award from the money he got for developing dynamite. He had hoped that his invention would only be used for peaceful purposes, he was saddened to see it applied to warfare. However over all his invention saved the lives of many explosive handlers over time as it stabilized nitro..

The 2013 winner of the prize is The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons : http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2013/

Today in history: October 11th 2000

The Polaroid corporation files for bankruptcy.