With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

The king's army conquered Alcácer Ceguer ( 1458 ), Tangiers ( won and lost several times between 1460 and 1464 ) and Arzila ( 1471 ).

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

The musical's original 1963 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book.

The show won several Tony Awards: best musical, best actor, best supporting actor ( Burns ), best book, and best director.

Hideo Nomo won in 1995, the first of several players to win with past professional baseball experience in Nippon Professional Baseball.

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

This election was also important because new parties won several seats in Congress, more than ever.

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

The game won several major awards in the following years:

It was a substantial critical success, and won several BAFTA awards.

Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots ( by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys such as Echternach ), he subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia, and he defeated the pagan Saxons.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

Crowded House has won several national and international awards.

He added several top international players to the side, as the club won the FA Cup in 1997 and established themselves as one of England's top sides again.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Their actions, in turn, bred popular resentment among Quiteños, who, after several days of street fighting in August 1810, won an agreement to be governed by a junta composed with a majority of Criollos, although with the Peninsular president of the Royal Audience of Quito acting as its head.

Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the school and its headmaster through the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, where he won several competitions in 1903 and 1904.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards ( including the " Artist of the ' 90s ") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

With a large expedition that eventually included 40 000 European troops, and receiving help from white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Alexandre Pétion, a former lieutenant of Rigaud, the French won several victories after severe fighting.

Angela Bassett won a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her portrayal of Wells ' girlfriend, Diane.

The play Rounds, which he co-produced, won the NAACP award for theatre in 1987.

The show has won both the 2005 and 2006 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Television, News, Talk, or Information Series or Special.

Cheadle first received widespread notice for his portrayal of Mouse Alexander in the film Devil in a Blue Dress, for which he won Best Supporting Actor awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics and was nominated for similar awards from the Screen Actors Guild and the NAACP Image Awards.

She has won or received 11 Grammy Awards, 13 Stellar Awards, 18 Doves, 1 RIAA gold certification, an Essence Award, McDonald's Golden Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP Achievement Award, SESAC Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

She was awarded an NAACP Image Award in 1986 and later won an Obie Award for her performance in the theatrical adaptation of Spunk, a collection of short stories written by Zora Neale Hurston.

Harper won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for three consecutive years ( 2008 – 2010 ) for his portrayal of Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on CSI: NY.

* NAACP Image Awards 2010: Best Supporting Actress in the Comedy Series ( won ) Tyler Perry's House of Payne

* NAACP Image Awards 2009: Best Supporting Actress in the Comedy Series ( won ) Tyler Perry's House of Payne

* NAACP Image Awards 2008: Best supporting Actress in the Comedy Series ( won ) Tyler Perry's House of Payne

During that same period, she won raves and a Best Actress nod from the Los Angeles NAACP Theatrical Award Committee for her performance in To Take Arms.

Over the years, he has also won numerous NAACP Image Awards.

Though Bates was charged a fine by the judge, NAACP lawyers appealed and eventually won a reversal in the United States Supreme Court.

She was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2004 for " Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series " and won a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2005 for Favorite Triangle, with co-stars Michael Easton and Melissa Archer.

In 2007, Ross won an NAACP Image Award in the category, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the series.

She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.

Richardson, with the help of the NAACP, won the case, increasing general awareness of discrimination in the public school system.

Guy was nominated for and won six consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, from 1990 to 1995.

She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Obie Award and four NAACP Image Awards.

Williams won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2000 and 2002.

" The local chapter of the NAACP threw its support behind her Republican opponent, Joe Harrison, who won the November 17, 2007 run-off election.

His role in The Tap Dance Kid also earned Hinton a second Tony Award, the NAACP Award and the Fred Astaire Award, and Miss Saigon for which he won his third Tony Award.

The recipient of an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the screenplay Lady Sings the Blues, de Passe won two Emmy Awards and NAACP Image Awards as Executive Producer of Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever and Motown Returns to the Apollo.