This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.

The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work " in an ideal direction " ( in Swedish ), is cryptic and has caused much confusion.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

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 ".

Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

An example for look-ahead solvers is march_dl, which won a prize at the 2007 SAT competition.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

The revised bet is still open, the prize being " clothing to cover the winner's nakedness ".

The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

The prize, administered by the Dylan Thomas Centre, is awarded at the annual Swansea Bay Film Festival.

With a cash prize of three million euros it is the most highly endowed German cultural award.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist ( after Kenneth Arrow ) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, particularly since his lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classical modelization.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

In contrast, the Deutscher Spiele Preis (" German game prize ") is often awarded to games that are more complex and strategic, such as Puerto Rico.

* Booby prize: typically awarded as a joke or insult to whoever finished last ( e. g., wooden spoon ( award )).

Magician and skeptic James Randi has offered a prize of one million dollars to academic-backed media figures who are able to demonstrate paranormal abilities such as spoon bending.

The wooden spoon was presented originally at the University of Cambridge as a kind of booby prize awarded by the students to the man who achieved the lowest exam marks but still earned a third-class degree ( a junior optime ) in the Mathematical Tripos.

The term " wooden spoon " or simply " the spoon " was also applied to the recipient, and the prize became quite notorious:

In some regions, particularly British-influenced ones of the Commonwealth and the United States, " wooden spoon award " is a booby prize for the team or individual finishing a competition in last position.

* A wooden spoon is a common booby prize which is awarded in such sports as Rugby Union, Rowing and in particular to the bottom team on the ladder in Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

For example, one special prize worth ¥ 1500 outside the parlor might be offered to a customer per 400 balls won, assuming each ball originally cost 4 yen.

# International tournaments: There are 31 tournaments, with a prize money for every event at U. S .$ 220, 000, except for the year-ending Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, originally held in Bali but now in Sofia, which has prize money of U. S .$ 600, 000.

The prize of 50 guineas was originally awarded by Queen Victoria.

Although he had originally read classics, he won his prize fellowship in law and was called to the bar in 1932.

The prize was originally sponsored by Mercury Communications, a brand owned by Cable & Wireless, from which the prize gets its name.

" The individual plays probably did not originally have titles of their own " The only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

The prize was instituted upon a donation from Lilly and Sven Thureus in 1971: originally it was a single prize, but at present it is awarded yearly upon decision by each one of the four classes of the Academy.

The Cullen version originally used the Big 7 with a payoff of $ 1, 000, but in the third season, the prize was renamed Big Money Card and offered a random payoff between $ 1, 000 –$ 5, 000, in multiples of $ 1, 000.

Despite his contributions to the musical, in their review the New York Times originally omitted his name as co-author, and the Pulitzer Prize committee initially awarded the prize to only Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The prize was founded by Constantin Volney in 1803 and was originally a gold medal worth 1, 200 francs.

He won the third audience prize as well as the interpretation award with Kemal Monteno-written song " Sinoć nisi bila tu " that was originally meant to be sung by Josipa Lisac who opted out at the last moment.

" ( The prize in this category was originally awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, but was revoked after it was revealed that her winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict was fabricated.

The tournament also has a $ 7. 5 million prize fund ( originally $ 10 million ), and will be contested by the leading 60 players in the race following the seasons penultimate event, the Hong Kong Open.

During the turn HMS Great Charity ( originally an Amsterdam Directors ' ship the " Groote Liefde ", captured during the Battle of Portland in 1653 ) became isolated and was boarded and captured by captain Jan de Haen, the later admiral, who immediately returned with his prize to the Netherlands, an obviously unsound practice that would be forbidden after this battle.

The fifth estate is one of two television series ( with The Twilight Zone being the first ) to win an Academy Award, a prize presented to theatrical films: Just Another Missing Kid, originally a the fifth estate episode, was released in theatres in the United States and won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

The prize tote board consisted of the two doors that were originally on the New York set, but cut down and made permanently-set boards in the new set.

* William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), author and winner of the Nobel prize in literature ; his surname was originally spelled " Falkner "

The most prestigious government prize awarded for achievements in science and technology was originally the Stalin Prize.