I totally agree, Joe. No room in a tweet. I can add to FB. He read a prematurely published obit for himself that called him "the merchant of death"!
Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it worth mentioning that Nobel had a huge epiphany about this (since he > spent a lot of his life developing explosives and such)? One of the cool > things about the prize is that he founded it as a better way to be > remembered after his death. > > LGTM either way though! > > Joe > > On 27 November 2015 at 17:17, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Twitter: >> On this day in 1895, Alfred Nobel instructed that his fortune be given as >> prizes to those who benefit the world. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Nobel_Foundation >> >> Facebook: >> On this day in 1895, Alfred Nobel signed a will instructing that his >> fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the >> "greatest benefit on mankind." >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Nobel_Foundation >> >> Facebook: >> Jack Delano, a photographer for the U.S. government's Farm Security >> Administration, shot this famous public domain photo of Chicago's Union >> Station in 1943. Other photographers working for the FSA include Walker >> Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. See more on this public domain >> photo: http://buff.ly/1Ngh6mO See more on Jack Delano: >> http://buff.ly/1jnSFHV (see attached) >> >> >> >> >> Jeff Elder >> Digital communications manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 704-650-4130 >> @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> >> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> >> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | +44 (0) 7722 > 916 433 > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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