A pacifist at heart and an inventor by nature, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. However, the invention that he thought would end all wars was seen by many others as an extremely deadly product.
'The Newsroom' Star Alison Pill Is Engaged. The Newsroom may have ended, but one of its stars has a brand new beginning. Alison Pill, who played Maggie Jordan on the HBO series, got engaged to her actor beau Joshua Leonard, 39, at Joshua Tree National Park. Pill, 29, posted their happy pic on Instagram yesterday saying, Let's do this 2015!.
The show featured Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married middle-class couple living at 1230 Holland Street in Pasadena, California. Doug was an independent lawyer and Kate was a housewife (she would eventually go back to school).