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The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ( usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, or just the Stephen Leacock Award ) is an annual literary award presented to the best work of humorous literature in English by a Canadian writer.
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His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and Stephen Leacock.
* 1998 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Barney's Version
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Berton served as the Chancellor of Yukon College and, along with numerous honorary degrees, received over 30 literary awards such as the Governor General's Award for Creative Non-Fiction ( three times ), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Léger Award for Lifetime Achievement in Heritage Conservation.
* Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, 1959.
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In 1992, Carrier's Prayers of a Very Wise Child ( Prières d ' un enfant très très sage ) won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
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An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.
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Stephen Leacock described the changing popularity in psychology in 1924, stating,
* Mariposa ( fictional town ), a fictional town created by Stephen Leacock and modelled on Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
In Stephen Leacock's 1912 book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Orillia was used as the basis for the fictional town known as " Mariposa ", although Leacock stated that the fictional town could really be any town.
The Stephen Leacock Museum, located in Orillia, is a National Historic Site.
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* Stephen Leacock, Mackenzie, Baldwin, LaFontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government ( 1907 )
In 1999, Curtis was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for his collection of humorous stories, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles.
* Non-fiction: Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West
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Stephen Bachiler page on the website of the Lane Memorial Library, New Hampshire
* Foster is honored on the University of Pittsburgh campus with the Stephen Foster Memorial, a landmark building that houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, the Center for American Music, as well as two theaters: the Charity Randall Theatre and Henry Heymann Theatre, both performance spaces for Pitt's Department of Theater Arts.
* A public sculpture by Giuseppe Moretti honoring Stephen Foster and commemorating his song " Uncle Ned " sits in close proximity to the Stephen Foster Memorial.
§ 140 designates January 13 as Stephen Foster Memorial Day, a United States National Observance.
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen
The village of Little London is part of the civil parish of Pamber, which covers Pamber Heath, Pamber End, Pamber Green and Little London and meets in Pamber Heath Memorial Hall and St. Stephen ’ s Hall, Little London.
The Chipman homestead in St. Stephen, New Brunswick was donated by the heirs of the estate in 1902 to found the Chipman Memorial Hospital.
The City of Belfast Youth Orchestra set up a Stephen Parker Memorial Trust in memory of teenager Stephen Parker, who had been a music student and played the French Horn in the orchestra at the time he was killed.
The American Maple Museum, which is located next to St. Stephen ’ s church, was originally the Father Leo Memorial School.
Leyshon and co-writer Stephen McAnena were joint winners of the Richard Imison Memorial Award 2003 for the best dramatic work broadcast by a writer new to radio, for the play Milk.
* Prof. Martha Cheung, Director of Centre for Translation, Chair Professor in Translation, renowned scholar in translation, recipient of the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award in 2000 and 2004.
Memorial Hall, the Science and Technology Center, the Fine Arts Center, Joseph P. Vonna Academic Annex, the Stephen A. Maurer Physical Education Building, Anne Brossman Sweigart Hall ( Business Administration ), North Hall ( History & Philosophy ) contain the classrooms and laboratories for all curricula.
After his death, the house was bought and turned into a shrine and literary museum by the Carlyle Memorial Trust, a group formed by Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf.
He was buried on the following March 27 in the Memorial Chapel Mausoleum Crypt Columbarium of Cathedral of St. Stephen.
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File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.
The RSA's Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Sir Frank Whittle, and Professor Stephen Hawking.
* Stephen W. Pless, Marine Corps major, Medal of Honor recipient
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender
The Timoshenko Medal honors Stephen P. Timoshenko as the world-renowned authority in the field of mechanical engineering and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher.
Blake Millar's design for Stephen House, which won a Massey Medal for excellence in architecture, contains, in addition to the residential spaces for students and staff, a classroom and laboratory.
Her picture-book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, won the 1989 Caldecott Medal.
Caldecott Medal, 1989, for the book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Knopf, 1988
* Copley Medal: Stephen Hales
* Copley Medal: Stephen Gray
* Copley Medal: The first Copley Medal is awarded to Stephen Gray.
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* Stephen Hawking -- Distinguished Research Chair ; Wolf Prize ( 1988 ); Copley Medal ( 2006 ); Dirac Medal and Prize ( 1987 ); Maxwell Medal and Prize ( 1976 ); Albert Einstein Medal ( 1979 ); Albert Einstein Award ( 1978 ); Eddington Medal ( 1975 )
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