The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses
In 1753, Ben Franklin won the Copley Medal awarded by the Royal Society of London. The same year, he was also awarded honorary doctorate degrees from a number of prestigious universities, including Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. In 1759, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<span> which was published in 1962</span><span> created a sensation because his novel portrays a grim detail of life in Stalinist concentration camp---a life which he had been condemned and an indictment of the Stalinist past.</span><span> </span>
