May 06, 2008, 09:06 PM
Bob Hquote:
Originally posted by Mike English:
Hey Koski, some people think now days its a big deal to win the Nobel peace prize. Radio DJ Bill Handel got himself nominated just like some other people. 
http://patterico.com/category/nobel-peace-prize/ 
 It is a BIG deal to 
win the award.
Many have been nominated even dumbya was nominated along with Bill Handel.
He didn't get it because of lack of votes of his stance as not a man of peaceful idealogy.
jmop
Lets talk of winners not losers of the Nobel Peace Awards.....
2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore 
2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank 
2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei 
2004 - Wangari Maathai 
2003 - Shirin Ebadi 
2002 - Jimmy Carter 
2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan 
2000 - Kim Dae-jung 
1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières 
1998 - John Hume, David Trimble 
1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams 
1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta 
1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin 
1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk 
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum 
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi 
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev 
1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama 
1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces 
1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez 
1986 - Elie Wiesel 
1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 
1984 - Desmond Tutu 
1983 - Lech Walesa 
1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles 
1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 
1979 - Mother Teresa 
1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin 
1977 - Amnesty International 
1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan 
1975 - Andrei Sakharov 
1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato 
1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho 
1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund 
1971 - Willy Brandt 
1970 - Norman Borlaug 
1969 - International Labour Organization 
1968 - René Cassin 
1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1965 - United Nations Children's Fund 
1964 - Martin Luther King 
1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies 
1962 - Linus Pauling 
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld 
1960 - Albert Lutuli 
1959 - Philip Noel-Baker 
1958 - Georges Pire 
1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson 
1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
1953 - George C. Marshall 
1952 - Albert Schweitzer 
1951 - Léon Jouhaux 
1950 - Ralph Bunche 
1949 - Lord Boyd Orr 
1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee 
1946 - Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott 
1945 - Cordell Hull 
1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross 
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees 
1937 - Robert Cecil 
1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas 
1935 - Carl von Ossietzky 
1934 - Arthur Henderson 
1933 - Sir Norman Angell 
1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1931 - Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler 
1930 - Nathan Söderblom 
1929 - Frank B. Kellogg 
1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde 
1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann 
1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes 
1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1922 - Fridtjof Nansen 
1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange 
1920 - Léon Bourgeois 
1919 - Woodrow Wilson 
1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross 
1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 
1913 - Henri La Fontaine 
1912 - Elihu Root 
1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried 
1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau 
1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant 
1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer 
1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault 
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt 
1905 - Bertha von Suttner 
1904 - Institute of International Law 
1903 - Randal Cremer 
1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat 
1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy 
Once again I don't need backup so I won't ask for help to agree with me.   
 