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* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Denys Watkins-Pitchford, The Little Grey Men
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* The Carnegie Medal for the best children's literature published in the UK was established in his name.
While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.
In accordance with his wishes, Pople's Nobel Medal was given to Carnegie Mellon University by his family on October 5, 2009.
The Hobbit was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction of the year ( 1938 ).
Lewis was awarded the 1956 Carnegie Medal for The Last Battle, the final book in the saga.
Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.
* United Kingdom and Commonwealth: the Carnegie Medal for writing and the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration ; the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize ; and the Guardian Award.
She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.
The Carnegie Medal in Literature, or simply Carnegie Medal, is a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults.
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One of the surviving occupants, 14-year-old Brian Gibbons, was later awarded the George Medal for bravery, as well as the Carnegie Award.
Carnegie and for
Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.
With the fortune he made from business among others he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie gave most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees.
Carnegie sold it in 1901 for $ 480 million to J. P. Morgan, who created U. S. Steel.
In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.
Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.
In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.
Reinvesting his returns in such inside investments in railroad-related industries: ( iron, bridges, and rails ), Carnegie slowly accumulated capital, the basis for his later success.
Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.
The investment proved a great success and a source of profit for Woodruff and Carnegie.
The young Carnegie continued to work for the Pennsylvania's Tom Scott, and introduced several improvements in the service.
Carnegie believed in using his fortune for others and doing more than making money.
Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri ( completed 1874 ).
Carnegie erected commodious swimming-baths for the people of his hometown in Dunfermline in 1879.
In the following year, Carnegie gave $ 40, 000 for the establishment of a free library in Dunfermline.
The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.
In 1898, Carnegie tried to arrange for independence for the Philippines.
In Scotland, he gave $ 10 million in 1901 to establish the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Carnegie and children's
After two years of research the newly formed Children's Television Workshop ( CTW ) received a combined grant of $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U. S. Federal Government to create and produce a new children's television show.
As a result of Cooney's initial proposal in 1968, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) grant to create a new children's television program and establish the CTW, renamed in 2000 to the Sesame Workshop ( SW ).
Held in Gratz Park between the Carnegie Center and Transylvania University, the festival typically features up to 100 art and craft booths, live entertainment throughout the weekend, food, children's activities, adult activities and literary events, free carriage rides, a traditional Morris and Maypole dance and various demonstrations.
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: David Almond, Skellig
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Tim Bowler, River Boy
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Melvin Burgess, Junk
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Flour Babies
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Susan Price, The Ghost Drum
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm
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