[missnry]

The Nobel Legacy - 3 pictures are worth a thousand words!

[Earthdweller]

After looking at those pictures is anyone else but me starting to get the impression that someone on the prize committee has a sick sense of humor?

Seriously...these “prizes” are starting to get cheaper than a Miss universe pageant crown. Get in bed with the right people and....

[dawn53]

Looks to me about 1990 things started to go downhill when it comes to Nobel Peace Prizes (some were good candidates, many weren’t.)

2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change.

_ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded.

_ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

_ 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.

_ 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.

_ 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.

_ 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

_ 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.

_ 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).

_ 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.

_ 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.

_ 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.

_ 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

_ 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.

_ 1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, South Africa.

_ 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.

_ 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).

_ 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.