An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

In 2006 Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs.

The King of Sweden presented the prize to Plant, Page, and Jones, along with John Bonham's daughter, in Stockholm in May 2006.

The 2006 Main Event, won by Jamie Gold, is the largest single poker tournament by prize pool or by entrant numbers in history ; Gold pocketed US $ 12 million for his victory.

From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway ' season ' rather than the calendar year.

Proving their susceptibility to heavy weapons and their value as a military prize, the Islamic Courts Union ( ICU ) was able to capture 30 " battlewagons " during the defeat of warlord Abdi Qeybdid's militia at the Second Battle of Mogadishu in 2006.

On May 6, 2006, twenty-four prize winners ( with a guest each ) attended a star-studded private party and performance at Prince's home.

In 2006, the WTA and players such as Venus Williams pushed for equal prize money to men at both the French Open and Wimbledon.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

In 2006, the prize instituted a longlist for the first time, comprising no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 titles.

In 2006, she also received the " Ragusani nel mondo " prize, since her Sicilian roots are in Ragusa, Italy.

From 1995 through 2006, the $ 100, 000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award and the $ 30, 000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize were also presented along with the Lemelson-MIT prize.

Following the merger, the university was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year prize in 2005 .< ref >

Subsequently, in 2006, a posthumous " Special Citation " was given to jazz composer Thelonious Monk, and in 2007 the prize went to Ornette Coleman, a free jazz composer.

Helena Njirić won the first prize of the 2006 Zagreb Architectural Salon for her work on the museum.

One of Erik's employees, Valerie Wilson, also gained fame in 2006 when for the second time in four years she won a million-dollar annuity prize in the lottery.

At Supercomputing 2006, Blue Gene / L was awarded the winning prize in all HPC Challenge Classes of awards.

The prize is awarded by a distinguished celebrity: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono.

Nominations for the prize are invited from the public, although this was widely considered to have negligible effect — a suspicion confirmed in 2006 by Lynn Barber, one of the judges.

€ 520. 000 ) endowed prize was awarded to Julia Kristeva in 2004, to Jürgen Habermas in 2005, and to Shmuel Eisenstadt in 2006.

On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm, Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10 %.

As Austin natives, they make regular appearances in the Austin Chronicle's annual Austin Music Awards poll, taking home the # 1 prize for " Best Novelty Band " in 2004, " Best None of the Above " performing band in 2006 ( the first Celtic band to ever win such accolades ), and " Best Folk Act " in 2007.

The 2006 series features a top prize of £ 30, 000.

In March 2006, two families were fighting over the Toyota RAV4 SUV prize of C $ 32, 000 value after their daughters found a winning " roll up the rim " coffee cup in a garbage bin of an elementary school in Saint-Jérôme, north of Montreal.

On 19 April 2006, Tim Hortons announced that they had decided to award the prize to the younger girl who had initially found the cup.

An analysis was published in November 2006.

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

It was controversially shut down by the Russian authorities in June 2006, at the height of a Russian-Georgian spy scandal.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

The building was formerly the State Bank Building until the collapse of the State Bank in 1991 and then the Santos House until 2006.

However, no new edition was released before Guardians of Order went out of business in 2006.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

On 7 July 2006, the new Town Museum of Abensberg was opened in the former duke's castle in the town.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

The system is a dual purpose test and interception facility in Alaska, and in 2006 was operational with a few interceptor missiles.

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.

In the 2006 census the population of the ACT was 333, 667, of which only 869 were outside Canberra.

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

Details were supposed to be kept from the public until after the 2006 postseason as per MLB rules, but the Diamondback page from the 2007 MLB Official Style Guide was somehow leaked around September 25, and local media broadcast printed the new design for all to see.

The stadium, which is owned directly by the club, was inaugurated in 2006 and replaced the old Alkmaarderhout venue as the DSB Stadion.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2006 – 07 season the accounting method changed to IFRS, which 2005 – 06 result was reclassified as net loss of € 4, 051, 905 and 2006 – 07 season was net income of € 10, 135, 539 (€ 14. 011 million as a group ).