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.

Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.

As a Herdwick breeder she won many prizes at the local agricultural shows and was frequently asked to serve as a judge.

Goats are not only useful for their meat-the Fuerteventurans also use the milk to make the cheese majorero, which has won many prizes.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

The Académie had an annual, juried art show, the Salon de Paris, and artists whose work was displayed in the show won prizes, garnered commissions, and enhanced their prestige.

Although clearly peers ( both won Nobel prizes in physics ), a formal panel of reviewers was not sought, as is done for many scientific journals today.

Subsequently he was prominent in undergraduate activities and won academic prizes and declared himself to be a patriotic supporter of the war and conscription.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

If the contestant answers a question incorrectly, then all the money won so far is lost, except that the £ 1, 000 and £ 32, 000 prizes are guaranteed: if a player gets a question wrong above these levels, then the prize drops to the previous guaranteed prize.

Weismann successfully submitted two manuscripts, one about hippuric acid in herbivores, and one about the salt content of the Baltic Sea, and won two prizes.

Saint-Saëns won many top prizes and gained a reputation that resulted in his introduction to Franz Liszt, who would become one of his closest friends.

Steinway's pianos won several important prizes at exhibitions in New York City, Paris and London.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

A five-match champion retired with $ 2, 000, any Secret Square prizes won up to that point, and a new car.

The champion won $ 25, 000 and the trophy, and a Jaguar was among the prizes in the bonus game.

Special prizes are awarded to the player in amounts corresponding to the number of balls won.

The person who amassed the most in cash and prizes at the end of the game won.

In the end, Larson earned a total of $ 110, 237 in cash and prizes, a record for the most money in cash and prizes won by a contestant in a single appearance on a daytime network game show.

Although this record lasted until 2006 when Vickyann Chrobak-Sadowski won $ 147, 517 in cash and prizes on the Season 35 premiere of The Price Is Right, it still remains the record for highest single-day winnings on a series with returning champions.

West was the first contestant in the show's history to land on and win a car and won a total of $ 25, 742 in cash and prizes over the three episodes on which he appeared.

On the May 28 and 29, 1984 episodes of Press Your Luck, Strangis won $ 7, 431 in cash and prizes.

The Tribune won 11 Pulitzer prizes during the 1980s and 1990s.

The Tribune won five Pulitzer prizes in the first decade of the 21st century.