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.

* Rock Rivals ( 2008 ) is a British television show about two judges on a televised singing contest whose marriage is falling apart.

Lynn appeared in a televised Tacoma, Washington, talent contest, hosted by Buck Owens, which was seen by Canadian Norm Burley, one of the founders of Zero Records.

This year's contest was the first to be televised in Australia, via Channel 0 / 28 ( now SBS Television ) in Sydney and Melbourne, although that country is never allowed to participate.

However, during this period, Daddy began to be cheered for the first time since his comeback when he entered into a feud with legendary masked heel Kendo Nagasaki, especially when he unmasked Nagasaki during a televised contest from Solihull in December 1975 ( although the unmasked Nagasaki quickly won the bout moments later ).

They met each other at the televised arts school and contest Fame Factory, which aired in autumn 2002.

< span id =" wizard-vs-wizards "> Wizard vs. Wizards </ span > was a televised contest devised by Tom Tatum and held in Las Vegas, where game authors would compete by playing each other's games.

The contest is one of six bowls produced by ESPN Regional Television ( a / k / a ESPN Plus ) and has been televised annually on ESPN since its inception.

After a series of televised debates throughout September, Hollande topped the ballot in the first round held on 9 October with 39 % of the vote, not gaining the 50 % required to avoid a second ballot, which he would contest against Martine Aubry, who had come second with 30 % of the vote.

The contest was televised via the Eurovision network and made Chataway a sporting celebrity ; that December he won the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

The decisive contest, played on October 3 at the Polo Grounds, was the first major sporting event televised coast-to-coast in the United States.

Thames Television invited Ball to sing during the Miss England contest, a live televised event, and he sang well enough despite suffering from anxiety.

Paulini entered the televised talent contest StarStruck, winning the contest.

Prior to the sellout against Texas Tech, the last sellout at Amon G. Carter was on November 17, 1984, when the 12th-ranked TCU fell to 10th-ranked Texas in a regionally televised contest on ABC.

Kai was also co-host, with Kimo Kahoano, of a televised karaoke contest, Hawaii Stars, that was the most popular locally produced show of its kind in Hawaii.

The annual Krystal Square Off hamburger eating contest has been televised on ESPN and, in 2008, on the Root Sports South network.

The defending national champion Tigers escape 22-21 in the nationally televised contest when Beaver kicker Alexis Serna misses three extra points, the last in overtime.

He has earned the nickname " Mr. Overtime ," for having called the three longest televised games in NHL history, all of which have been playoff games — a 1996 game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals that went four overtimes ( third longest ); a 2000 contest that also featured the Penguins, this time playing the Philadelphia Flyers, which went five overtimes ( the longest ); and a 2003 matchup between the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Dallas Stars, which also went five overtimes, and lasted six hours ( second longest ).

In early 1988, he was tangentially involved in the falling out of Kendo Nagasaki and Rollerball Rocco when he and ' Ironfist ' Clive Myers faced the duo in a televised contest in Croydon.

He entered the Danish music scene in 2003 as a competitor in the Danish televised talent contest Stjerne for en aften (" Star For A Night ").

Bustos is famous for its month of January Minasa Festival showcasing the town food products like the native century-old delicacies Minasa cookie and the dry-like wafer crunchy Barquillos. The Minasa Festival event is a televised week-long festivity of street dancing parade in colorful costumes and also features a row of makeshift stalls selling local food and merchandize inside the Municipal compound ; live band concerts of well-known performers, photo contest and exhibits ; traditional filipino games as well as singing and dance competitions among every barangay and school of the town.

The 1991 Ms. Olympia contest was the first to be televised live.