Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr.

Foley's restaurant and bar is know throughout the state for its Bacon and pear soup, which won several awards at the 2008 soup fair some of which included the Russel Tuckey award for most audible soup.

Kahn won a year's scholarship to study abroad in Europe, where he toured with another young architecture student, Henry Bacon, who would later design the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.

In July 2006, Bacon was named " Backbencher of the Year " by his fellow MPs for the result of his efforts, and in November 2006, he won three more awards: " Parliamentarian of the Year " from the Spectator magazine, " Politician of the Year " from the Political Studies Association and " Outstanding Parliamentarian of the Year ” from the ConservativeHome website.

While at MMW, Bacon won, in 1889, the Rotch Traveling Scholarship for architectural students, which gave him two years of study and travel in Europe, which he spent learning and drawing details of Roman and Greek architecture.

He and Charles Bacon of the USA went over the last hurdle simultaneously, but Bacon won the run to the tape to win in a world record 55. 0 seconds.

Head coach Dave Shea, a 1952 Bacon Academy graduate, won his 660th career game ( 331 with the girls ) at Bacon Academy.

He competed in the full season for Busch Series Rookie of the Year in 1989 in the # 12 Burton Autosports Pontiac In 1990, he drove the # 12 Armour Lower Salt Bacon Buick for Sam Ard, where he won his first career race.

In 1916, he won the Republican primary, defeating Robert Bacon, and was elected to the United States Senate over Democratic National Committee chairman William F. McCombs in the general election.

Bacon won numerous honors including the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1962, the American Institute of Planners Distinguished Service Award, the Philadelphia Award, and an honorary doctorate from Penn.

In 1994, Bacon earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The River Wild opposite Meryl Streep.

Under James, the " Golden Age " of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Sir Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary culture.

Homer watches a commercial about a contest that will allow the winner, the finder of a Golden Ticket, a trip to " Farmer Billy's Bacon Factory ", and is intrigued by the commercial.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

Bacon receiving a Merit Award in April 2010

" Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman ; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

Program from AIA Gold Medal Award honoring architect Henry Bacon, 1923

In 1937 she starred opposite Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in the Academy Award nominated Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley directed musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1937.

Kevin Bacon played Dennis, Željko Ivanek played Hal, Zoë Wanamaker played Fay, Charles Keating played McLeavy, Joseph Maher played Truscott ( winning a Drama Desk Award for his performance ), and Nick Ullett played Meadows.

She was also awarded the Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Suspense Thriller for her role in the film Wild Things with Kevin Bacon and Neve Campbell.

NETA Award My Source: The Bacon Brothers – Michael ’ s Revenge

She was awarded the Francis Bacon Award in the History of Science by the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) in 2012, and will collect the Bacon Medal for this award at the annual History of Science Society meeting in San Diego in September 2012.

One of their films is screened in the KahBang Off Screen Category, " Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon " which connects the honored back to the man himself.

Charter members of the Academy are Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Bacon, James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy, John Clark, David Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Nathan Cushing, William Cushing, Tristram Dalton, Francis Dana, Samuel Deane, Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild, John Hancock, Joseph Hawley, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell, Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge, Robert Treat Paine, Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips, Jr., John Pickering, Oliver Prescott, Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, William Sever, Stephen Sewall, David Sewall, John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts, James Warren, Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth, Joseph Willard, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, and James Winthrop.

* The song is used to humorous effect in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon as ill-informed Americans prepare for an invasion by Canada.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

The subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, on 5 April 1573 at the age of twelve, living for three years there together with his older brother Anthony Bacon under the personal tutelage of Dr John Whitgift, future Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

In 1598 Bacon was arrested for debt.

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

The so-called " Prince's Parliament " of April 1614 objected to Bacon's presence in the seat for Cambridge and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported.

Bacon, however, continued to receive the King's favour, which led to his appointment in March 1617 as the temporary Regent of England ( for a period of a month ), and in 1618 as Lord Chancellor.

Bacon wrote two sonnets proclaiming his love for Alice.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

In his " New Atlantis ", Bacon describes his utopian island as being " the chastest nation under heaven ", in which there was no prostitution or adultery, and further saying that " as for masculine love, they have no touch of it ".

In his works, Bacon called for a " spring of a progeny of inventions, which shall overcome, to some extent, and subdue our needs and miseries ", always proposing that all scientific work should be done for charitable purposes, as matter of alleviating mankind's misery, and that therefore science should be practical and have as purpose the inventing of useful things for the improvement of mankind's estate.

In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland and sent John Guy to found a colony there.

However, there were those who did not believe this, for instance the Fransiscan friar Roger Bacon ( c. 1214-1294 ) stated that books falsely claiming to be by ancient authors " ought to be prohibited by law ".

" In early 20th century, British artillery officer Henry William Lovett Hime proposed that another work tentatively attributed to Bacon, Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae contained an encrypted formula for gunpowder.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.