On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

In 2007, Simon received the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.

Popular events include the annual horse show, car show, and fire works.

In the absence of Songwriters Hall of Fame honoree Little Richard, Burke performed his hits " Lucille " and " Tutti Frutti " with Paul Schaeffer on piano at the National Academy of Popular Music's 34th annual induction ceremony on June 12, 2003.

That same year, they participated in the annual special show of Banco Popular dedicated to Bobby Capó.

Also in 1996, she participated in the annual music video special, produced by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, dedicated to Bobby Capó, which usually includes only the most important and international singers the island has to offer.

* July 6 – The largest light airplane meet outside the United States brings 750 small planes to the Popular Flying Associations annual meeting in Leicester, England.

Also that month the band were voted ' Most Popular Australian Group ' by readers of Go-Set in their annual pop poll.

In 1959, the Prado government's refusal to authorize the permits for Accion Popular annual convention led to another confrontation: Belaúnde led the opening of the convention in defiance of the prohibition, and the Prado government arrested and jailed him in the Alcatraz-like island prison of El Frontón off the Lima coast.

Since 1974, Comic-Con has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award on guests and persons of interest in the Popular Arts industries, as well as on members of Comic-Con's Board of Directors and the Convention Committee.

Al-Turabi founded the annual Popular Arab and Islamic Conference ( also sometimes called the Congress ) around 1991.

There are several publications dedicated to providing information to shortwave listeners, including the magazines Popular Communications and Monitoring Times in the United States, and the annual publications Passport to World Band Radio ( now, regrettably defunct ) and the World Radio TV Handbook ( WRTH ).

The film won several awards in major Indian film award ceremonies, including the Most Popular Film award at the National Film Awards and the Best Movie award at the annual Filmfare Awards, among others.

The annual new car issue of Popular Science introduced the 1970 model by entitling its article: " Rambler is dead-long live the Hornet!

Popular Sufi culture is centered on Thursday night gatherings at shrines and annual festivals which feature Sufi music and dance.

She won the Most Popular Actress award ( voted online by residents of Asian countries ) at the fifth annual Seoul International Drama Awards.

The party publishes an annual magazine called Acción Proletaria magazine and a monthly newspaper, Remolino Popular.

The Popular MANORAMA MAHATOSAV i. e. MANORAMA FESTIVAL has got the name due to this river. Manorama Mahatosav is an annual fair organised during the winter at the Tehsil Premises of HARRIYA.

Anderson had been invited by Arthur Fiedler to guest-conduct the Boston Popular (" Pops ") Orchestra during their annual Harvard Night.

Popular river destinations in the city of Detroit include the Detroit International Riverfront and Belle Isle Park — both of which host a number of events throughout the year.

According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....

Popular theology, magnified by current events including the Black Death and a series of peasant revolts, asserted that God was punishing the wicked.

Popular festival events include Thursday's traditional Jr.

Popular events and activities include a Pig Roast, Live Music ( 2012's music included a dulcimer band and a barbershop quartet ), Liar's Contest, Story Telling, and more.

Popular seasonal events in New Freedom include:

Many historians consider the Popular Front's electoral victory as the first event in the immediate chain of events that led to the military rebellion against the Republic on 17 – 18 July 1936.

Popular regular events at DNA Lounge include:

The editors of Popular Mechanics listed Halo 2 as one of the top fifteen events of the decade, crediting the game with bringing online multiplayer to the console masses.

The German Autumn () was a set of events in late 1977, associated with the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Confederation of German Employers ' Associations ( BDA ) and the Federation of German Industries ( BDI ), by the Red Army Faction ( RAF ), and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane " Landshut " by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ).

During his period as a member of the Government, José Bono was involved in certain controversial events, some of them regarding his role as Minister of Defence ( e. g. the controversy created by the public declarations of Lt. General José Mena Aguado about the 1978 Spanish Constitution, defending the possibility of an intervention of the armed forces to maintain the territorial integrity of Spain ), and others regarding his membership of the Socialist Workers ' Party, the most significant of them being the detention of two members of the Popular Party ( PP ) who were participating with him in a popular demonstration, after they had allegedly attempted to assault him.

Popular culture in Honduras, as in most countries, is expressed not so much through sophisticated artistic creations, but rather by popular events that draw big crowds.

Traditional events occur throughout the year, such as the Feira das Nações ( Fair of the Nations ), where typical foods of various countries are served, and the FAMPOP, ( Fair of Popular Music ), whose objective is to highlight and award singers, musicians and composers.

However, these events did not mark the end of the movement, and the later Socialist-Revolutionaries, Popular Socialists, and Trudoviks all pursued similar ideas and tactics to the Narodniks.

Popular Dungog events are the Dungog Film Festival hosted at the James Theatre, the Dungog Agricultural Show, Pedalfest, the Dungog Rodeo, and the Thunderbolt Rally.

For historical writing purposes, many modern historians will use the word peasant with care and respect, choosing other phrases such as " Popular " or " from below " or " grassroots ", although in some countries in central and eastern Europe where serfdom continued up to the 19th century in places, the word peasant is still used by some historians as the main description of these events.

He also stated that he never accused the Popular Front of Azerbaijan of having anything to do with these events, he only meant the PFA took advantage of the situation to focus the popular resentment on him.

Popular events include Jailbreak, a sponsored hitch where participants have to get as far away from Manchester without spending a penny in 30 hours, Bogle, a 55 mile walk around greater Manchester, and Beerfest, a three day student run beer festival which attracts over 1500 students annually.

Popular events at the resort include the Annual Independence Day fireworks on the lake, and " Magical Nights of Lights ", the largest animated light show in the world.

The Popular Theatre in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is a center of social and cultural events for the country.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).

The old guard returned Mutalibov to power in May 1992, but less than a week later his efforts to suspend scheduled presidential elections and ban all political activity prompted the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party ( PFP ) to organize a resistance movement and take power.

Popular music gigs take place at a number of venues and pubs across the town including the Lewes Con Club, the Snowdrop Inn, the Volunteer Pub, the Lewes Arms, The John Harvey Tavern, The Pelham Arms and The Lansdown.

At various times, she will take an ordinarily common situation ( for example being Most Popular in the yearbook ) and make it into a full blown out situation aimed at increasing her ego, or to shame or humiliate her target ( most often that target being Betty ).

The concept of the speed camera can be dated back to at least 1905 ; Popular Mechanics reports on a patent for a " Time Recording Camera for Trapping Motorists " that enabled the operator to take time-stamped images of a vehicle moving across the start and endpoints of a measured section of road.

Popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students or fellows attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together.

Of these organizations, by far the most prominent was the Popular Front of Azerbaijan ( PFA ), which by the fall of 1989 seemed poised to take power from the Communist Party.

In the same year, Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan ( PFPA ) managed to take seats in Parliament and Ali Kerimli became a leader of parliamentary party fraction.

Forswearing the Popular Front strategy adpted by the PCB, the PT chose instead to take a more radical stance against the military regime and gained a strong presence in between high skilled workers and middle-class intellectuals.

* Cat's paw ( wave ) Popular name for capillary waves in Earth sciences, a pattern of shallow ripples resembling paw prints on the surface of water, caused by a light wind ( the wind may also take the name )

After hearing the news about the 11 September coup MRC ( Spanish acronym for Revolutionary Campesino Movement ), a group formed with help of MIR, decided to take actions against the police station in Neltume as a first step to defend the Unidad Popular government.

The People's Olympiad ( Catalan: Olimpíada Popular, Spanish Olimpiada Popular ) was a planned international multi-sport event that was intended to take place in Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous region of Catalonia within the Spanish Republic.

One of the main controversies of the documentary is that the two principal protagonists in the controversy, the then incumbent Partido Popular and ETA refused to take part in the interviews.

Armed forces led by the Azerbaijan Popular Front take control of the offices of the Parliament of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani State Radio and Television, thereby deposing Mütallibov, who leaves for Moscow ; defunct Supreme Council of Azerbaijan is dissolved passing the duties to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan formed by equal representation of Azerbaijan Popular Front and former communists.

Popular perception of Ali Baba, and the way he is treated in popular media, sometimes implies that he was the leader of the " Forty Thieves ": in the story he is actually an honest man whom fortune enables to take advantage of the thieves ' robberies.

( Popular Science magazine would note in 1946 that " Cap screws and setscrews with heads recessed to take hexagonal-bar wrenches are coming into increasing use.

After the workers won the right to take over the company, these artists along with the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and Taller de Gráfica Popular began a project to auction donated works to raise the money needed to restart the idle plants.

As Vargas joined the United Nations and Brazil entered World War II against the Axis, Luís Carlos Prestes, the father of Anita Leocádia and former partner of Olga Benário, eventually struck a political partnership with him according to Popular Front Communist policies of the time: Prestes argued that, by declaring himself against Vargas ' immediate resignation, he wanted to take a stand against " the decrepit remains of reaction ".

Popular myth has it that in colonial times it was common for plantation owners to donate leftover Christmas food scraps, such as bits of pork and beef, to their slaves, who would then wrap them in cornmeal and plantain leaves for subsequent preparation and cooking, which could take anywhere from 2 to 3 hours.

The Popular Socialist Party supported the bid, but did not take part in the coalition with the two parties on a national level.

For the 1948 general election the Socialists led by Pietro Nenni chose to take part to the Popular Democratic Front alongside with the PCI.