The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881.

According to the stories, the derelict disappeared ; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board.

The Pulitzer board has the authority to overrule the jury's choice, however, as happened in 1986 when the jury chose the CIVIL warS to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given.

The committee and institution serving as the selection board for the prize typically announce the names of the laureates in October.

In 1996, after years of internal debate, the Pulitzer Prize board announced a change in the criteria for the music prize " so as to attract the best of a wider range of American music.

In 2004, responding to criticism, Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes at the Columbia University School of Journalism, announced that they wanted to " broaden the prize a bit so that we can be more assured that we are getting the full range of the best of America's music ..." Jay T. Harris, a member of the Pulitzer governing board said: " The prize should not be reserved essentially for music that comes out of the European classical tradition.

However the board, to its discredit, never awarded the prize to Harrison, nor anyone else.

In 2008 the board of judges of the Specialized Information Publishers Association ( SIPA ) awarded The Annual Register the 2008 Best Reference Publication prize for its " editorial excellence ".

Silver-bearded " Mr Ball ", the K Foundation's compere, directed the witnesses to nail their wad of money to a board inside a gilt frame, to assemble the K Foundation's prize.

The gallerist André Emmerich ( d. 2007 ), Charles Scripps, Togo Tanaka and the nobel prize laureate Rosalyn Yalow ( d. 2007 ) were among the other past members of the advisory board.

They then donated the trophy to the rugby board, and it became the prize for the Currie Cup competition.

Stewart then reworked the game and presented another version to CBS, with a bonus round that featured a giant pyramid board ( then with 10 subjects instead of 6 ) and a $ 10, 000 cash prize which could be won in one minute.

" Two LAUSD board members retire, Friedlander wins Shoah scholarship prize.

The club was saved by former chairman Stafford Heginbotham and former board member Jack Tordoff, but to ensure the club could start the new season, prize asset, striker Bobby Campbell was sold to Derby.

* 2008: 1st prize board one at 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden

Members of the board of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council are not eligible to be considered for this prize during the course of their terms as members nor for six months following the end of their term.

In 1950, Unzicker shared the prize for best top-board score (+ 9 − 1 = 4 ) with Miguel Najdorf for his performance on first board for the West German team at the Dubrovnik Chess Olympiad.

The Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgement, but Butler, ex-officio head of the Pulitzer board, found the novel offensive and persuaded the board to reverse its determination, so that no novel received the prize that year.

This was subsequently changed to the couples receiving a prize every time they won, which was later replaced by the winning couple facing a " cash board " with " BEAT THE CLOCK " spelled out on three levels, each letter concealing a money amount: either $ 25 ( 4 ), $ 50 ( 5 ), $ 100 ( 2 ), or $ 200.

A 2006 board game based on the series is currently the prize sent to listeners who beat the panel.

Although the book was not nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Kennedy's father Joseph asked columnist Arthur Krock, his political adviser and a longtime member of the prize board, to persuade others to vote for it.

In accordance with the rules of the Technology Academy Finland, a proposal concerning the winner of the Millennium Technology Prize is made to the board of the foundation by the eight-member international selection committee, and the final decision on the prize winner is made by the board.

By 1980, over 250 women were playing professionally, and the tour consisted of 47 global events, offering a total of $ 7. 2 million in prize money.

Some sit and gos, called winner-take-all, only reward first prize with money, which receives all of the money that the sit and go consisted of from all of the buy-ins from every player in it.

The runners up prize consisted of a custom-signed Lex Hives CD booklet, a Go Right Ahead 7 " vinyl record, a Barely Legal poster, a Veni Vidi Vicious poster and two stickers.

The judging panel of the 2002 Turner Prize, which awarded the £ 20, 000 prize to Tyson, consisted of the critic Michael Archer, then Director of the Hayward Gallery, Susan Ferleger Brades, director of the Musée National d ' Art Moderne, at the Centre Georges Pompidou Alfred Pacquement, and collector Greville Worthington.

Decipher's prize support for sanctioned tournaments initially consisted of unique t-shirts with card images printed on them along with some product ( premiere packs ).

The competitor who sank the greatest number was considered victorious, and received the prize ( κοττάβιον or " cottabium "), which consisted of cakes or sweetmeats.

The game consisted of a team of contestants who answered a series of multiple-choice questions for a potential prize of up to $ 2 million.

The prize consisted of a £ 1m recording contract with a major record company, plus the use of a luxury apartment in London and a sports car for one year.

The grand prize consisted of a record deal, a fancy car and an apartment in Notting Hill, London.

This program consisted of local agriculture improvement societies holding breed shows to choose the best stallion, whose owner was then awarded a monetary prize.

The prize consisted of a certificate and 2, 500 dollars.

His research has consisted of empirical studies of literary and artistic prize winners and Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics, and medicine or physiology.

He called it The Bit In The Middle and it consisted of humorous features, such as The Day-To-Day Challenge, in which the same person would go on air each weekday to answer quiz questions and try to upgrade their prize, and Willy On The Plonker, which involved a crazed piano-playing of a well-known hit for listeners to identify.

Known as the " Kawakami Prize " it was named after renowned Yamaha Music Corporation President Genichi Kawakami and consisted of a special bronze medal and cash prize very similar to the " Outstanding Performance " award.

The prize consisted of a financial aid of 30. 000 euro and 12 months of professional consulting and support.

For the second season, the top prize consisted of two cars, ten pairs of round-trip Delta Air Lines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, an outdoor spa, a new kitchen, living room, and dining room, and a $ 900, 000 annuity paid in annual installments of $ 36, 000 for 25 years.

: One of the questions each week was selected randomly during the Friday segment, and Maddow rewarded the listener with a prize package that always consisted of a glossy autographed photo of Kent Jones ( still given away despite his leaving the show ) and something from her desk ( usually a book written by a previous day's guest and anything else she could find that is worthy of giving away ).

If successful, the player won the grand prize, which consisted of either their own arcade game, a home entertainment robot, a jukebox, or even a vacation ( in certain " invitational " episodes ).

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.

Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

According to Zacks, Kidd was unaware that Culliford had only about 20 crew with him, and felt ill manned and ill equipped to take the Mocha Frigate until his two prize ships and crews arrived, so he decided not to molest Culliford until these reinforcements came.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

In October 1823, he entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and despite some turmoil in the school at the beginning of the term ( when about a hundred students were expelled ), Galois managed to perform well for the first two years, obtaining the first prize in Latin.

The reasons for the two of them winning the prize are described in the Nobel committee's press release.

But two years before this he had already received the prize at the Conservatorio of Bologna for his cantata Il pianto d ' Armonia sulla morte d ’ Orfeo.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

Polgár won two, drew one and lost one and won $ 12, 000 in prize money.

The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).

On the reverse, two figures related to the University of Helsinki, the prize sponsor, are engraved.

At the meeting, Feynman concluded his talk with two challenges, and he offered a prize of $ 1000 for the first individuals to solve each one.

The contest was extended by two years, and Germain decided to try again for the prize.

* 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

After the seven-player edition, the studio was revamped once again to add two more podiums, and the potential prize money was raised to £ 50, 000.

Also taking place on this day is the crowning of the Road March King or Queen, where the singer of the most played song at judging sites over the two days of the Carnival is crowned winner, complete with prize money and usually a vehicle.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.

In addition, players only played for half the money ; $ 500 was won for each of the first two games, with $ 1, 000 for the third and $ 2, 000 for all subsequent games and $ 250 was given as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

The final season saw Hollywood Squares return to the best two-of-three format that had last been seen on the NBC network daytime series ; each game was worth $ 1, 000, the first to win two advanced to the bonus round, and players were no longer given cash as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

In the earliest episodes of the series, two Secret Square games were played on each show with a different prize offered for each game.

The Secret Square was played in both the second and third games of the day, but after two weeks the Secret Square prize would only carry over to the third game if neither player had claimed in it the second game.

Each of the nine squares hid a different prize, with $ 10, 000 cash ($ 15, 000 in Season 3 ) and a car being the two most expensive.

During themed weeks in which two new contestants played each day, one extra key was removed since the champion had only one chance to win the prize.