Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

Mortimer Cumberbach and Ignatius Davidson opened their C and D Cement Block Corp. on Booker Avenue at Straight Path on December 6, 1928 ; as late as the mid-1950s, C & D Cement Block was the only large business owned and operated by African-Americans in Suffolk County.

Chris Booker, after only a brief absence from the channel, was brought back in order to host the show.

He was named in honor of Booker T. Washington, but unlike Washington ( whose middle name was Taliaferro ), Jones was only given the middle initial " T ": " Booker T. Jones " is his full name.

He was the founder and owner of People's Ice & Fuel Company, which had the distinction of being both the only black-owned and black-operated ice manufacturing company and the only black-owned and black-operated fuel company in the U. S. He also founded the Arkansas Negro Business League, an affiliate of Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League ( NNBL ).

Samuel Chapman Armstrong of the Hampton Institute and Booker T. Washington began the call for institutions of higher learning so black students could leave home and " live in an atmosphere conducive not only to scholarship but to culture and refinement ".

In August, King Booker claimed to be the only one entitled to be known as " King ".

Boss Man served as an enforcer again, only this time for Booker T under the order of Vince McMahon.

With both the IWGP and TNA Tag tiles on the line, they captured the IWGP titles, which the British Invasion had beaten them for, only for the Brits to take them out and win what at the time were Booker and Steiner's TNA tag championships moments later.

By all accounts, these sessions were a three-day, around-the-clock party, which not only reunited the original MGs ( Steve Cropper, Donald " Duck " Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T. and the MGs fame ) for the first time in three years, but also featured Carl Perkins, Mark Lindsay ( of Paul Revere & the Raiders ), and Wayne Jackson plus The Memphis Horns.

Her only novel, The Bone People, won the Booker Prize in 1985.

Hulme was the first ( and as of 2012, only ) New Zealander to win the Booker.

As of 2012, Larry Carlton and Booker T. Jones are the only musicians to receive the award more than once.

" According to M. Keith Booker, author of Drawn to Television, the warning only made the episode more attractive to children.

Soon after the WCW / ECW Invasion storyline, Anderson took up color commentary for a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Booker T and Buff Bagwell, WCW Cruiserweight Championship match with Billy Kidman and Gregory Helms as well as another WCW Championship match between Diamond Dallas Page and Booker T, which would be his only appearances as a commentator in WWE.

Originally a gold mining township of over 1, 500 people, it is now permanent home to only about 30 residents-among them Booker Prize-winning writer Keri Hulme, landscape photographer Andris Apse.

In the aftermath of Booker and other Supreme Court cases, such as Blakely v. Washington ( 2004 ), Guidelines are now considered advisory only, on both the federal and the state levels.

He had five receptions for 25 yards or longer on the season, tied with Marty Booker for second on the squad, trailing only Chambers, who had six.

Booker then became the only experienced receiver for rookie QB John Beck and career back-up Cleo Lemon to throw to for the rest of the season.

For a time, Booker served as an operative of the international crime cartel known only as SKULL when its leader, Simon Pons, recruited him into the cartel.

Under that title, it was also nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980, Munro's only nomination for that award.

Booker caught six passes for in finale at the Kansas City Chiefs on December 28, as he set a Bears record for consecutive games with a reception ( 58 ).

They caught the attention of Extreme Championship Wrestling Booker Paul Heyman.

The Blind Boys caught the ears of more listeners via their Grammy-nominated 1992 album Deep River, produced by Booker T. Jones, which featured a version of Bob Dylan's " I Believe In You.

Booker Taliaferro Washington ( April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915 ) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents.

Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children ( 1980 ), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947.

Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honoured.

On the May 14, 2009 edition of TNA Impact, TNA Wrestling put on their first I quit match, where Booker T defeated Jethro Holiday after an axe kick.

The band performed with Jones as " Booker T and the DBTs " at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 14, 2009.

Booker started 14 games during the season and was inactive twice-on December 25 against the New York Jets due to an ankle injury and on October 15 at the New York Jets due to a chest injury.

* Booker T defeated Chris Benoit to retain the WCW World Television Championship ( 14: 11 )

Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children ( 1980 ), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 – 15 August 1947.

It has billboards on the western and eastern edges of town along State Highway 15 that read " Booker: Next 9 Exits "-which is a reference to all the streets that run north-south ( N-S ) that meet the highway as it passes through town.

Booker all 13 games in which he played in 2003 and was the Bears ’ leading receiver for the third straight year, catching 52 passes for and four touchdowns.

Booker turned in his most productive receiving day of the season at the New England Patriots on October 10, when he hauled in seven passes for 123 yards.

Booker accounted for a pair of 100 yard receiving games on the year, including the season opener against the Denver Broncos when he hauled in five passes for 104 yards.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

In 1971 the year of eligibility was changed to the same as the year of the award ; in effect, this meant that books published in 1970 were not considered for the Booker in either year.

In 1972, the winning author John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

His musical talents were developed at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis and James Booker.

In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.

Taft met with and publicly endorsed Booker T. Washington's program for uplifting the African American race, advising them to stay out of politics at the time and emphasize education and entrepreneurship.

* Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta " Compromise " Speech from the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning ( Graduate Center, CUNY ) and the Center for History and New Media ( George Mason University )

The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.

Her novel Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.

He would also provide backup for Sonny Boy Williamson II ( Alex " Rice " Miller ), playing gigs alongside other local blues artists such as Howlin ' Wolf, Charley Booker, Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Little Walter.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.

* The Handmaid's Tale ( 1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize )

* Cat's Eye ( 1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize )

* Alias Grace ( 1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction )

* The Blind Assassin ( 2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.