On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

The " National Team " of government critics won 12 ( later reduced to 11 ) of the 15 seats, and independents won the other three, after a campaign opposing the appointment of

Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

Spalding won 47 games and Barnes led the league in hitting at. 429 as Chicago won the first ever National League pennant, which at the time was the game's top prize.

Baseball experts felt the Cubs would have better represented the National League and would have won at least two World Series games.

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.

The Colorado Rockies have won one National League championship ( 2007 ).

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.

This policy backfired when the MPLA won in Angola, and then, acting ostensibly at least as the ( Front for the National Liberation of the Congo ), occupied Zaire's Katanga Province, then known as Shaba, in March, 1977, facing little resistance from the FAZ.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

* Trudeau won the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1995.

In 1987, Animalia won the title of Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book.

A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 ( tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ).

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

In 2002, the Call of Cthulhu 20th Anniversary Edition won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Book Product 2001.

The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.

His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

In the same year Newton Arvin published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction National Book Award.

The first U. S. edition, translated by William Weaver, won the National Book Award in category Translation

Steps ( 1968 ), a novel comprising scores of loosely connected vignettes, won the U. S. National Book Award for Fiction.

For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

This work won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

It also won the GLAAD Award for Best Comic Book in 2001.

The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle ; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association ; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 ; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.

Her novel The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.

The series also won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Gelbart's other Broadway credits include the musical City of Angels, which won him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and an Edgar Award.

The three novels have won various awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by The Amber Spyglass.

Other triumphs include `` Random Harvest '', `` Madame Curie '', `` Pride and Prejudice '', `` The Forsythe Saga '' and `` Mrs. Miniver '' ( which won her the Academy Award in 1943 ).

His book The World of Pooh won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

As a result, he won the Atoms for Peace Award in 1969.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 2011 the production received four Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Musical, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations, as well as five Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Musical and won for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

The centre won the 2002 Angus Design Award.

In 2003, ArgoUML won the Software Development Magazine's annual Readers ' Choice Award in the “ Design and Analysis Tools ” category.

His album Nederlands Grootste Nachtmerrie ( Holland's Biggest Nightmare ) won Best Album Award in 2007 and was fully produced by Dr. Dre's right hand man Focus ...

It won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Army of Darkness won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film ( 1994 ).

The film also won the Critics ' Award at Fantasporto, and was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award in the category of Best Film in 1993.

Andersson / Ulvaeus also won a Touring Broadway Award for the musical " Mamma Mia " ( best score ).

His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D ' or, Academy Award and Golden Globe.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film