The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

When Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

By 473 BC, after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition.

First prize was a pair of lifetime season tickets awarded to the person who submitted the winning entry.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

A valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC ; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians.

Griffith Rhys Jones-or Caradog as he was commonly known-was the Conductor of the famous ' Côr Mawr ' of some 460 voices ( the South Wales Choral Union ), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

In the hunt, Atalanta drew the first blood, and was awarded the prize of the skin.

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.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

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 most of its history, the Boston Marathon was a free event, and the only prize awarded for winning the race was a wreath woven from olive branches.

The PCH Prize Patrol has made in-person appearances and prize awards on such popular TV shows as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Price is Right. Their surprise winning moments have been spoofed by Jay Leno, Conan O ' Brien and the cast of Saturday Night Live, woven into the plots of movies like Let's Go to Prison,

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.

Two weeks after the match former President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid boxer and fan, wrote an article for The Outlook in which he supported banning not just moving pictures of boxing matches, but a complete ban on all prize fights in America.

If the team manages to complete all three levels and master the dungeon, they are awarded with a prize, which changed over the years from the " Silver Spurs of Squiredom ", to medallions ( Series 4 ), to " Frightknight " trophies ( a design of a Knight holding a sword ).

During this year, two prize winning essays were written in Copenhagen ; one by Niels Peter Lemche, the other by Heike Friis, which advocated a complete rethinking of the way we approach the Bible and attempt to draw historical conclusions from it "

Ravel tried a total of five times to win the prize, and the last failed attempt in 1905 was so controversial that it led to a complete reorganization of the administration at the Paris Conservatory.

Players in The Mole must work together to complete various physical and mental challenges to build up a significant cash prize for the winner.

If the contestants, as a team, complete the challenge, that money is added to the final prize for the game.

As a consolation prize the UK ordered a number of AIM-120s to arm Eurofighter on entry into service which was expected before Meteor development was complete.

A monetary prize — from five hundred million to twenty billion dollars — is offered to companies who successfully complete the challenges.

The grand prize was never a car or cash, but it could include just about anything else: appliances, furniture, home entertainment systems, a trailer or motorcycles, trips ( complete with luggage and camera ), etc.

Prizes may be awarded to winners, and can include computer hardware such as overclocking kits, cases, lights, fans, graphics cards and sometimes even complete computers ( often considered humorous as typically the winner of the competition would already have ( and be competing on ) a custom PC far superior to the prize ).

" He received the Charles Ives Center award for his percussion quartet ( 1981 ), the DiLorenzo prize for the octet Daya ( 1985 ) for string quartet and clarinets, and the Morse Fellowship to complete his Symphony for Strings ( 1988 ).

The 1930 prize went to Raman who gave the complete explanation of the effect now bearing his name, using quantum mechanics.

With the arrival of the latest online pools games such as Premier 10 and Super 6, the overall pool size is less than the classic pools game, but the odds of winning a major prize are increased because fewer predictions are required to complete a coupon and, also, fewer individuals play each coupon.

One of his most famous paintings, which took him some ten years to complete, was titled That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do ( The Door ), which won top prize at three major exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia in 1941.

In 1880 the Institut de France offered a prize for a complete bibliography of the Hebrew translations of the Middle Ages ; Steinschneider won it with two monographs written in French in 1884 and 1886.

A complete Encyclopædia Britannica was later added to the prize for questions that stumped the panel.

An unsuspecting contestant, previously nominated by a viewer of the show, is ambushed by Whitney and dared to partake and complete the stunt successfully in order to win a major consolation prize ( usually a holiday and spending money ).

In the climax of the show the contestant then attempts to complete the dare ; if successful they win the major prize.

If they fail or decide to drop out, co-host Zaetta will then try to complete the dare instead ; the contestants forfeits the prize if she succeeds, but if she fails or pulls out herself, the contestant wins regardless.

During the show each major dare is bookended by several minor segments in which Whitney travels the streets and shopping malls of Australia challenging people to complete a lesser dare for a cash prize ( usually around $ 50 to $ 200 ).

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