Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

The contest was judged by the Muses.

While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

However, former California Governor Jerry Brown was scoring victories and Clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native South.

With minor exceptions, balloting was considered free and fair by the local human rights organizations which monitored the contest.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

" It was a hard-fought contest, leading Prince Eugene to observe – " I have not a squadron or battalion which did not charge four times at least.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.

In the post-election leadership contest held in November 1935, Attlee was opposed by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood.

One of the highlights of the AAFC years was a contest between the 49ers and Browns in 1948.

Soon afterward, he was named team captain, and in 1903 the team was renamed the " Naps " after a newspaper conducted a write-in contest.

" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975.

He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

At 14, he conducted a band that won a nationwide contest held in San Francisco.

The franchise then held a naming contest to publicize the team, promising a $ 1, 000 war bond to the winner.

They are elected by the Judiciary Council based on a merits contest held by that office.

At the film's wrap party, the crew held a talent contest, where Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell sang The Byrds ' " Eight Miles High ", with Nicotero on guitar.

The contest is held in Yellow Pine about 150 miles outside of Boise, Idaho and is called the Yellow Pine Harmonica Contest.

The Village Voice held a $ 200 lightbulb joke contest around the time of the Iran hostage crisis, with the winning joke being:

A contest was held in 1965 to choose the name of the new Miami AFL franchise.

The first boxing contest held at the Arms Park was on 24 January 1914, when Bombadier Billy Wells beat Gaston Pigot by a knockout in the first round of a 20 round contest.

He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, namely a papal fief ; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joan I of Naples, accused to have ordered the assassination of the former's brother, was ended in 1352 by a trial held in Avignon, by which she was acquitted from any charge.

If these tournament rounds were held in one competition, up to 512 contestants would participate in the tournament, which is difficult to believe for a single contest.

" The street was closed and decorated with flags and bunting, and the Times reported plans for New York's acting mayor Joseph V. McKee to present a " key to Cortland Street " to the then-reigning Miss New York, Frieda Louise Mierse, while a contest was held to name a " Miss Downtown Radio.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

The first electoral contest held under universal suffreage were the municipal elections of November 1956, the first national contest the 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.

GameFAQs has held a contest for the best video game series ever, with The Legend of Zelda claiming the top position.

* July 25 – Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

* Seattle is officially dubbed the Emerald City after a contest is held to choose a new city slogan.

The première of Cavalleria rusticana, winner of the Sonzogno contest, was held May 17 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.