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In 2006 Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs.
The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna who had died a year earlier.
The ministry also developed a new anthology of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet and writer, established a Ruben Dario prize for Latin American writers, the Leonel Rugama prize for young Nicaraguan writers, as well as public poetry readings and contests, cultural festivals and concerts.
In 1967, Rabén & Sjögren established an annual literary prize, the Astrid Lindgren Prize, in connection with her 60th birthday.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, established by Sveriges Riksbank in 1968, is a prize awarded to economists each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics.
The prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward ( then CAN $ 25, 000 ).
She died in 1926 ; in her will she established a fund for a Georges Bizet prize, to be awarded annually to a composer under 40 who had " produced a remarkable work within the previous five years ".
In 2004, AITO established an annual prize in the name of Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard to honor their pioneering work on object-orientation.
In 1998 the prize was restructured with the " Marian Anderson Award " going to an established artist, not necessarily a singer, who exhibits leadership in a humanitarian area.
The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and is presented annually in early December.
Ellsberg is the recipient of the Inaugural Ron Ridenhour Courage Prize, a prize established by The Nation Institute and The Fertel Foundation.
In 1979 Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award in honor of its former CEO ( 1928 &# 8209 ; 1960 ), an annual $ 2, 000 prize given to a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers to encourage accident prevention.
Quarries were established to extract the region's abundant slate, the quality of which won first prize at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
This event is known as the " World Human Powered Speed Challenge " On September 18, 2008, Whittingham established a new record of, thereby winning the. decimach prize for going one tenth the speed of sound ( with adjustments for slope and elevation ).
During the eighteenth century rowing competitions for watermen became established on the Thames, and the prize was often a new wherry.
In 2004, as a stimulus for young musicians to study and perform Delius's music, the Society established an annual Delius Prize competition, with a prize of £ 1, 000 to the winner.
The Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics also established a prize in his memory to mark the centenary.
The Alliance's 72 % U. S. content allowed it to qualify as a domestic vehicle, making it the first car with a foreign nameplate to win the award since the magazine established a separate Import Car of The Year prize in 1976.
In 2009, Dembo also established the ZEROprize, a one million dollar prize for a design to retrofit a concrete building built between 1945 and 1990.
" Lycées " being organically linked to the University of France and its Faculties since their Napoleonic institution ( the " baccalauréat " was awarded by juries made of university professors ) Cousin was " crowned " in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for a Latin oration he wrote which owned him a first prize at the " concours général ", a competition between the best pupils at " lycées " ( established under the Ancien Régime and reinstated under the First Empire, and still extant ).
In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkōkai, a literary prize was established in Oda's name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth with the aim of carrying on the long tradition of Kansai literature.
On almost 400 acres Mulock established a manorial estate and model farm, known for its flowers, black walnut grove, apple orchard, and prize shorthorn cattle and shetland ponies.
In 1993, Lantz established a ten thousand dollar scholarship and prize for animators in his name at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.

prize and through
Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result.
He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.
Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship — an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest.
Nobel was personally interested in experimental physiology and wanted to establish a prize for progress through scientific discoveries in laboratories.
Partway through the first season, the rules were modified so that the player had to correctly agree or disagree with a Secret Square-style question Bergeron asked the celebrity in order to claim the prize.
PETA also gives a yearly prize, called the Proggy Award ( for " progress "), to individuals or organizations dedicated to animal welfare or who distinguish themselves through their efforts within the area of animal welfare.
Common scenarios included making it successfully through a harrowing gauntlet and competition in an arena to win a virtual cash prize with which to upgrade their cars.
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.
The experiment was proposed by Sir Joseph Banks, who recommended Bligh as commander, and was promoted through a prize offered by the Royal Society.
The last participant which lasted through all the votes received the main prize of three million rubles.
Competitors race vehicles through the mud to win prize money.
For example, skeptic James Randi, through his foundation, has offered a prize of $ 1 million to anyone who can demonstrate that $ 7, 250 audio cables " are any better than ordinary audio cables ".
Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing right through the century, and won the nobel prize for literature in 2007.
Another contest offered a $ 500 prize to a student in grades 6 through 12 who “ explores a scientific fact or exposes a scientific fallacy in a book, movie, song or other pop culture medium .” In 2007 the Center announced a “ Freedom in Fiction Prize ” competition offering 10 cash prizes of $ 10, 000 to authors who write a new book with “.
The siege had cost the Allies a great deal in men and resources, and had pinned down William III's army through the whole summer campaign ; but the recapture of Namur, together with the earlier prize of Huy, had restored the Allied position on the Meuse, and had secured communications between their armies in the Spanish Netherlands and those on the Moselle and Rhine.
DARPA has hosted competitions in 2004 & 2005 to involve private companies and universities to develop unmanned ground vehicles to navigate through rough terrain in the Mojave Desert for a final prize of $ 2 Million.
In 2002 Freeling offered a prize of 1000 euros, available through 2012, for any computer program that could beat him in even one game of a ten-game match.
The phrase " at each position " was not strictly accurate from 1961 through 2010, when the prize was presented to three outfielders irrespective of their specific position.
In 1980 Tveitt was awarded the Lindeman prize for the work he had done through the NRK.
For this, he was awarded the Beaufort Testimonial, an annual prize of books and instruments but, in the meantime, he had to wait around, unpaid, until his appointment came through officially.
In 2002, the World Cyber Games held a larger event in Daejeon, Korea with a prize pool of $ 1, 300, 000 USD ; 450, 000 competitors took part in the preliminary events, with 450 ultimately making it through to the final tournament.
She won the Conservatoire's first prize in harmony in 1903 and she remained there for another year although she had begun to earn money through organ and piano performances.
He now is the host of the prime-time series Chopped, a culinary competition called " the crown jewel of Food Network " by the New York Post, in which four chefs per episode attempt to cook their way through three courses to win a $ 10, 000 prize.
But, unknown to her, the bail is a bribe ( paid, through the cops, to Babu Gujjar's gang ), and Babu Gujjar arrives to collect his prize.

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