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“As fortune would have it, in 1888, Nobel’s brother Emil died.
Wie es das Schicksal so wollte, starb Alfred Nobels Bruder Emil im Jahre 1888.
You might as well indict Alfred Nobel for every IED in Iraq.
Sie könnten genauso gut Alfred Nobel für jeden Sprengkörper im Irak verklagen.
Large, paunchy iron tanks glinted in the darkness – the oil storage facilities of the Nobel Company.
Trübe schimmerten in der Dunkelheit bauchige Eisenzisternen – die Öltanks der Nobel-Gesellschaft.
Nobel was so upset by what he read about himself that he decided to change his legacy.
Nobel war so bestürzt über das, was er über sich las, dass er beschloss, sein Testament zu ändern.
Like Alfred Nobel, I have had the curious experience of reading my own obituary.
So wie Alfred Nobel habe ich nun die eigenartige Erfahrung gemacht, meinen eigenen Nachruf zu lesen.
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