Entering a 3-4 day lull between two major busy periods, I decided I needed to post a few times. Coincidentally, I opened my email account associated with this blog and found my wife was thinking the same thing.
Julie and I had a discussion last night about the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Obama, and we had a straightforward (and very mild) disagreement about which country the somewhat misguided committee members represented - ie where is the prize deliberated and then awarded. Julie? 'Norway.' Tim? 'Sweden.'
Being fairly confident of my answer, citing King Olaf and Stockholm and things like that, I was not even planning to 'run to the computer' and try to 'prove it.' (Sadly, I've done that sort of foolish thing before. :-- ( )
Logging in early this morning, I scanned some news headlines that were 'Monday morning quarterbacking' the Obama Peace Prize announcement and one of them mentioned the 'Norwegian selection committee.' Huh??? Read on.....
It seems we are both right, but Julie is exactly right about the Peace Prize. When the Nobel prizes were created, the honored disciplines ranged from chemistry to medicine to peace - later economics was added. Also, when they were created, there existed some form of political union between Sweden and Norway, and that fact led to the Nobel group splitting responsibility for the prizes between the two countries. Most of the prizes are based from and awarded from Stockholm, Sweden, but the Nobel Peace Prize is based from and awarded from Oslo, Norway. Both sites have Nobel laureate celebratory galas on December 10 every year. Isn't that interesting??
And, oh yeah....Julie - you were right!! I was wrong. I love you.
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