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"City of Stars" from "La La Land" took the prize.

"Free Solo," about a daring rock climber, took the prize for documentary feature.

At the Resnik-Edmunds reception, Mike Schoenfeld, a college friend, took the prize shot.

Fans still debate about which is better, but "Deep Impact" took the prize for critics.

Ironically, the much less strong-willed horse named War of Will took the prize home instead.

George McGovern took the prize in 22019 despite finishing second to front-runner Edmund Muskie in both.

Trump took the prize in terms of the number social media mentions — but most of those were negative.

Donald Glover, the show's star and creator, took the prize for best actor in a comedy last year.

The race between Alphabet and Amazon to $1,21 was on earlier this month and Amazon just took the prize.

"Our ladies of Perpetual Succour" won best new comedy while "Akhnaten" took the prize for best new opera production.

They include Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie, who took the prize in 1903 for her pioneering work in radioactivity.

Interestingly, none of those finalists were the winner — after one dropped out, an eliminated team stepped in and took the prize.

Sometimes this led to good winners, as when Mr. Robot, USA's exciting new hacker drama, took the prize for best drama series.

While several American-based horses have won the Japan Cup, it has not happened since 1991 when Golden Pheasant took the prize.

Saving the best (in some ways) for last, the 2017 Acura NSX took the prize for best green luxury vehicle, but let's be honest.

New York City's Le Coucou took the prize for best new U.S. restaurant, while its owner Stephen Starr was named the nation's outstanding restaurateur.

The jackpot soared after no one took the prize in Saturday night's draw, making it second only to last year's record-setting $1.5 billion prize.

He took the prize in the 100m backstroke, also claiming a repeat gold in the 400m medley relay and silver in the 400m freestyle relay.

Bogota, Colombia took the prize of the most congested city in the world, with drivers spending an average of 191 hours in traffic in 2019.

Among television honors, "Mad Men," which aired its final season, won the Writers Guild award for drama series, while "Veep" took the prize for comedy programs.

On Monday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel and guest Ashton Kutcher compared their scores — and though they were close, Kimmel's took the prize by a margin of 0.01.

In addition to its win in comedy, Amazon picked up a second statuette when Mozart star Gael Garcia Bernal took the prize for Best Actor in a Comedy.

For sixth place, Mississipi's "classic 'Deep South' accent" took the prize, while Hawaii landed itself in seventh, Philadelphia in eighth, St. Louis in ninth and Californian in tenth.

"Son of Sofia," Elina Psykou's dark fairy tale about an 11-year-old making a new life in Athens, took the prize for the best international narrative feature.

"The Two Popes" has become an audience favorite on this fall's festival circuit: It took the prize at the Middleburg Film Festival in October, and it's easy to see why.

Though Massachusetts took the prize for the most generous U.S. state on the 2019 list (based on the number of donations per capita), Vermont followed closely behind at No. 2.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told CNN that Sanders "took the prize of the night" in California on Super Tuesday and did exceedingly well with Latino voters there and in Texas.

More so than any of his contemporaries, this 78-year-old performer known as the "Golden Voice of Prague," who first took the prize in 1964, has outlived epochs and transcended politics.

Other winners included British singer Jamie Lawson who took the prize for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Wasn't Expecting That", beating Ed Sheeran, who signed him to his record label last year.

And Jemisin, the same author subjected to racist mudslinging by Rabid Puppy leader Vox Day, took the prize for Best Novel every year she came up for eligibility during the Puppies' period of agitation.

In the run-up to next weekend's Oscars, Moonlight took the prize for best original screenplay and Arrival won the trophy for best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards Sunday in Beverly Hills, California.

With Centrowitz, winner of the last two Wanamaker Mile races moving up, the door was open for a new winner in the closing event and fellow Oregon runner Eric Jenkins took the prize in a season-best 3:53.23.

Steven Zaillian took the prize for television movie or mini-series for the drama "The Night Of", while directors of "Saturday Night Live" and the 70th annual Tony awards won the variety/talk series and variety/talk specials categories, respectively.

The big winner was a Hungarian film, "It's Not the Time of My Life", which not only took the prize for top film (the Crystal Globe), but also saw Szabolcs Hajdu—also the film's writer and director—win the award for best actor.

Other notable winners include Ashley Christensen, who was named the outstanding chef for her work at Poole's Diner in Raleigh, North Carolina; New York's Frenchette was named best new restaurant; and Frasca Food and Wine of Boulder, Colorado took the prize for outstanding service.

The closest analog may be "The Artist," another black-and-white movie that took the prize seven years ago, but though it was made by the French director Michel Hazanavicius and starred French leads, it was ultimately a Hollywood-set film made in English.

NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its report on labor abuse in the seafood industry, and the Los Angeles Times took the prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the San Bernardino massacre, the Pulitzer board said.

More recently, they have highlighted #blacklivesmatter, the 2014 winner (hotly debated with regard to whether a hashtag could be an actual word), "they," the singular, gender-neutral pronoun, which won the prize in 2015, and "dumpster fire," defined as "an exceedingly disastrous or chaotic situation," which took the prize in 2016.

For the first time, the broadcast included abridged scenes from two Best Play nominees: Art Carney and Anna Manahan did a five-minute excerpt from Brian Friel's "Lovers," and more than a dozen cast members flooded the stage for a boisterous dressing-room scene from Howard Sackler's boxing-themed "The Great White Hope," which took the prize as well as two acting awards.

And in the years when the most-watched video did not win the Oscar, we need to make a distinction between the times when the second-most-viewed video won (like 2400, the year the "Prince of Egypt" song "When You Believe," which has fewer YouTube views than the "Armageddon" song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," took the prize) and when the least-watched video won (as in 260, the year "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3" triumphed).

Goldberg received the Israel Prize posthumously, her mother took the prize in her name.

In 2003 Labirinto won the race for France. In 2004, Collier Hill took the prize back to England and came back again to win it in 2006.

He failed to figure in any of the four heats as Miss Kingsland took the prize by winning two of the heats and dead-heating in a third.

Spitfire took the prize into Plymouth on the 23rd while Arethusa sailed off in search of the other six.Naval Chronicle, Vol. 2, p.79. On 28 June Jupiter, Monk, master, arrived at Plymouth.

Arethusa captured one, an armed ship, which was carrying sundries from Saint-Domingue. took the prize into Plymouth on the 23rd while Arethusa sailed off in search of the other six.Naval Chronicle, Vol. 1, p.79.

Menander (; Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comediesSuidas μ 589 and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times.

Virgin Rope Makeover was awarded the Best Film award at the first Zoom-Up Awards given by the magazine of the same name in 1980. Director Mamoru Watanabe took the prize for Best Director and Mayuko Hino won for Best Actress.

She met the Wright brothers, who took the prize, and on 9 October 1908 made an early flight in their biplane, two days after Édith Berg. She did not herself become a pilot, as sometimes suggested, but her son Paul-Louis eventually did.

Atalante took the prize into port. On 4 December, Atalante captured the privateer lugger Succès (or Success). Atalante came upon a lugger in the act of capturing a brig, and immediately set off in pursuit. The privateer abandoned her prize and tried to escape.

Samuel Wanjiru (the world record holder in the event) won the men's race while Lornah Kiplagat (the two-time World Road Running champion) took the prize for the female competition.Negash, Elshadai (2008-03-01). Wanjiru and Kiplagat win Shekih Zayed Half in Abu Dhabi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-17.

Attila reappeared as a four-year- old in the Port Stakes, a race for four-year-olds at the Newmarket Craven meeting in April. He took the prize without having to run, as the other entrants were withdrawn and he was allowed to walk over. He did not appear on a racecourse again in 1843.

Captain Pickles took the prize back to New Orleans, where Pollock had her fitted out. Pickles cruised with her in West Florida's waters during Governor Gálvez's march up the Mississippi. Pickles then assisted Gálvez in the Battle of Fort Charlotte, which resulted in the capture of Mobile, before sailing her to Philadelphia for sale.Allen, p.

Plant was born in Woodville, Derbyshire, the only child of Ralph and Marjorie (née Langton) Lunn who were village shopkeepers. She attended at Ashby de la Zouche Grammar School from where she went to Liverpool University in 1963. She graduated with first class honours in geology and took the prize for the best degree in her year.

He entered Christ's College, Cambridge, taking First Class Honours degree in Classics (1889) and in the Semitic Languages Tripos (1893). He took the Prize in Biblical Hebrew. In 1894, he became a Fellow and lecturer of Hebrew in Christ's and then university lecturer in Aramaic (1903–31). He was a Tutor from 1911, and then Master of Christ's from 1927 to 1936.

Jeremy Sossei in a field of 53. April 19-20 of that year, in a regular Joss Tour stop at Golden Cue, Hatch won yet again, in a field of 49, beating Dan Heidrich in the final after defeating local hero Zuglan. April 14-15, 2007, Zuglan took the prize, with Dan Hewitt as runner-up (Hatch was tied for 7th/8th).

Feijenoord won their first Dutch Cup in 1930 by scoring the only goal in a derby final against Excelsior Rotterdam.Netherlands Cup Finals, rsssf.com They continued to dominate their division with three consecutive titles, but were winless in subsequent championship finals. Five years after their first cup win, Feijenoord took the prize for a second time in 1935 by beating Helmond Sport.

In 2008, he was awarded the Bâloise Prize. In 2013, Campbell was one of the three artists chosen to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale. On 1 December 2014, it was announced that he had won the 2014 Turner Prize. Campbell took the prize for his video work "It for Others" – a work that reflects on African art and includes a dance sequence inspired by Karl Marx.

This was an old-fashioned form of racing in which the horses ran twice over the same course. If a horse won both heats it took the prize: otherwise the two heat- winners had a deciding run-off. Spaniel finished second in both heats to a three-year-old named Sluggard. Spaniel was then put up for sale and bought by a Mr Meyrick.

This was the largest telescope in the world at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical excellence in photography at the great 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Whipple and Bond made the first daguerreotype of a star (Vega). In 1863, Whipple used electric lights to take night photographs of Boston Common.

The next year took the prize of fest Micro 2000 (Микро 2000), at the same fest MC L.E. won at the freestyle battle. At the fest Adidas Streetball Challenge 2001 taken third place.Adidas Streetball Challenge 2001: как это было… Under the name Mnogotochie were released three albums. In 2006 a disintegration of band was announced and the band continued her creative activity under the titles DotsFam и Mnogotochie Band (Многоточие Band).

She gained the advantage 70 metres from the finish and took the prize by a short neck from Macleya with Ponte Tresa, Le Miracle, Brisant and Anna Pavlova close behind. After the race Moore said "We went a good pace, which was useful as she needs to stretch out and likes to pass horses. She idled a bit once she got her nose in front and has just done enough".

The bark seized an unnamed slave ship some northwest of Mariel, Cuba. Goodwin arrested and took on board his own ship the 11 men ". . . all intoxicated and inclined to be troublesome ..." who had manned the bark and replaced them with a crew from Amanda who took the prize — which, the day before, had delivered 750 blacks to Cuba — to Key West, Florida. There she was condemned in admiralty court.

The United Kingdom seven of the nine categories in the Emmys International. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Jim Broadbent shared the best actor award with the Dutch Pierre Bokma. Muriel Robin won the award for best actress for Marie Besnard - The Poisoner, and Simon Schama's Power of Art: Bernini took the prize for arts programming. The best comedy and drama categories were also won by British programs.

Cole’s first attempt at the Championship was when he challenged Robert Coombes with the match taking place on 24 May 1852. The stake was £200 a side. By this stage Coombes was about forty-four years old and past his prime and although he put a gallant fight to lose by only half a length the much younger Cole took the prize. The course was the usual Championship Course and the time was 25m.15s.

In 1999, Rick and Bibbi Conner, San Diego entrepreneurs with interest in the sport, subsidized a goaltimate tournament with a US$30,000 purse for the winners, inviting top players from competitive ultimate teams. The San Diego team took the prize, defeating a team from Boston in the finals. Through this introduction, the sport rapidly spread across the US as a pickup alternative to ultimate. In 2016, USA Goaltimate, the national governing body for the sport, was launched.

Dogma sponsored the D-1 Climax (D-1 クライマックス) awards, which ran from 2005 to 2007, as a competition for directors. Several prominent directors from Dogma and other companies were invited to make videos under the Dogma label and sales during a set period plus voting by judges were used to determine the winners of the contest. Director and founder Tohjiro won the award in 2005 and 2006 but Hitoshi Nimura took the prize in 2007.

The 2019 TeenStar Grand Final took place on Saturday February 1 at indigo at The O2 in London. Teah won the singing category and the group Sophie's Studio, Gun Control? took the prize for dancing, both winning over the competition industry judges making them the overall TeenStar winners for each category. The overall singing winner and won: production of her album in one of the UK's finest recording studios, River Studios, working with a top producer on her songs.

In the spring of 2012, the device was presented for the first time. In March 2013, the company was named Best Startup at Seedstars World Moscow, part of the Swiss group Seedstars. In October 2013, WayRay took the prize at the Intel Global Challenge, UC Berkeley, California, and the following month got shortlisted as a finalist at Slush, a startup competition in Helsinki, Finland. In 2015, L’Hebdo, a weekly French-language news magazine in Switzerland, listed Ponomarev among 100 outstanding innovators of Switzerland.

Gebrselassie's ever powerful sprint was no match for Bekele. Over the final straightaway, Bekele extended to more than a full second gap for the victory and the changing of the guard in dominance of long distance track running. Bekele took the prize at the next Olympics over Sihine with Gebrselassie out of the money and accomplished the Woolworth double (5 and 10) in 2008. Gebrselassie subsequently focused his effort onto 10k, half- marathon and marathon competitions, setting multiple world records before retiring.

By 04:30 Principe de Asturias, with Perla and the recaptured Ceres was closing the range and threatening Minerve. Unable to oppose such overwhelming force, Nelson turned away towards the distant Blanche, the Spanish in pursuit. At dawn on 20 December the entire Spanish squadron, rejoined by Matilde, was strung out behind Minerve, the British ship hampered by its damaged rigging. To prevent the damaged Minerve being overrun, Culverhouse took the prize into the path of the Spanish, prominently displaying the British flag over the Spanish.

During the encounter Strachan came alongside and sent a boarding party onto the Télémaque under William Locker, who secured her surrender. Strachan took the prize into Gibraltar and along with Locker, was reassigned to the 32-gun HMS Sapphire. He returned to England aboard her and in 1759 was attached to the Grand Fleet under Sir Edward Hawke. He was then assigned to the light squadron in Quiberon Bay under Commodore Robert Duff, and was present at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759.

Again this was a competition-style meet with almost all the aircraft from France. Louis Paulhan set a height record of just under one mile (1.6 km) and also took the prize for endurance with a flight of 1:49:40 that covered . The first African aviation meet was the Grande Semaine d'Aviation d'Egypt held at Heliopolis, east of Cairo, 6–13 February 1910. The event took advantage of the good winter weather found in that country and attracted fliers from all over Europe.

Captain Silas Talbot was recalled to duty to command Constitution and serve as Commodore of operations in the West Indies. After repairs and resupply were completed, Constitution departed Boston on 23 July with a destination of Saint-Domingue via Norfolk and a mission to interrupt French shipping. She took the prize Amelia from a French prize crew on 15 September, and Talbot sent the ship back to New York City with an American prize crew. Constitution arrived at Saint-Domingue on 15 October and rendezvoused with , , and .

He took the prize to Cat Island, roughly west of the mouth of Lafourche, with the profits being split between the Lafitte brothers and the rest of the fleet. He and the others were well known in New Orleans and openly sold captured prizes and cargo, often English manufactured goods, to friends and acquaintances in the city. He and the others sided, with Lafitte, against the British, during the War of 1812 and was present with Lafitte, Dominique You, Rene Beluche and Louis "Nez Coupé" Chighizola during the Battle of New Orleans.

They have received numerous rewards as well as recognitions for their work. They won third prize from the televoting on "Ohrid fest" 2006, and one of their songs was a hit of the year on Radio Ros. 2006, they won third prize from the jury of the Suncane skale festival in Herceg Novi, Montenegro and took the prize "Bronzena sirena". In TV ORBIS' manifestation from Bitola they took the award "Zvezdena orbita na popularnosta" and together with fifteen other media houses from Macedonia they were chosen for most popular people of the year award. 2007.

Dew and Griffin took the prize to the Isles of Shoals and then into Portsmouth to sell off its cargo, ignoring the usual requirement to present prize ships to an Admiralty Court. In August 1691 pardoned pirate Christopher Goffe (who had sailed with Thomas Woolerly and Thomas Henley) was commissioned by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet to hunt them down in his ship Swan. Goffe tried but Griffin and Dew outraced him: “they sail two feet to our one.” Short on supplies, Goffe gave up the chase and returned to Nantasket.

On Bermuda's seventh cruise to the gulf, she encountered a sloop off the Atlantic coast of Florida and, after a brief pursuit, brought the stranger to with a shot across her bow. The chase proved to be the sloop Fortunate that had recently emerged from Indian River Inlet laden with cotton and turpentine. Smith transferred the cargo to his own ship, took the prize in tow, and resumed his course toward Port Royal. However, the sloop began taking on water, parted the towline, and sank some four hours later.

The end of season awards were made at the KC Stadium on 20 April 2013. Ahmed Elmohamady was voted as the Player of the Season and Stephen Quinn took the prize for Players Player of the Year. The prize for the Goal of the Season was taken by Nick Proschwitz for his goal against Leyton Orient on 15 January 2013 in the FA Cup third round replay. Dougie Wilson was awarded the Young Player of the Year Award while Andy Dawson was given a Special Contribution Award for his testimonial year with the club.

The new tug soon got underway south; and touched at Port Royal, South Carolina for fuel on 14 February, before pushing on to the Gulf of Mexico. She joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron at New Orleans late in the month and was assigned to patrol and blockade duty in Mississippi Sound. On the morning of 24 August, she captured sloop Oregon in Biloxi Bay, Mississippi Sound, and took the prize to New Orleans for adjudication. Subsequently ordered to Mobile Bay, Narcissus supported clean-up operations following the great Union naval victory there on 5 August.

The Ortgies was a well-balanced, sturdy weapon that found considerable favor in competitive shooting. In 1921, prize winners at some 70% of principal shooting competitions had chosen Ortgies pistols, and the winner of the German championship on September 26, 1921, at Halensee, Germany, took the prize firing an Ortgies. At the other end of the user spectrum, outlaw John Dillinger carried an Ortgies,Guns and the Gunfighters, by the editors of Guns and Ammo, New York: Bonanza Books, 1975 (), dustjacket quoted at Arms2armor Internet site, accessed April 22, 2010 and several hundred Ortgies pistols in both .25 and .

He again managed to avoid capture, although his fleet broke up when he became separated from Shipton. It may have been around this time that Spriggs' quartermaster Philip Lyne took the prize ship Sea Nymph and left Spriggs to sail for Newfoundland. Little is known of his later career; according to newspaper accounts, he was still active in the region and, as of April 1725, had captured several more ships. One newspaper account does suggest Spriggs was still active as late as 1726 when he was marooned on an island with Shipton and another famous pirate, Edward Low.

The nominees for the 32nd Emmy International Awards were announced by International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, on October 4, 2004, at a press conference at MIPCOM in Cannes. British productions were the big winners of the 2004 International Emmy, winning six of the seven categories, including best documentary and best drama series. The BBC took the prize for best drama with Waking the Dead and best art program with George Orwell: A Life in Pictures. Channel 4, also from the United Kingdom won an Emmy in the category for documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off.

Iron mining was opened up by an English company in 1768 and in 1771 a nickel mine. Because of the proximity of iron mines, numerous metal products were made – plows, hoes, railings, nails, machinery, even cannonballs. The Ramapo Wheel and Foundry Company, organized in 1873, took the prize among all competitors for the productions of their wheels at the Vienna Exposition of 1873. Grey and red sandstones were quarried in great quantities, Building stone from local quarries went into the old Capitol at Albany, Fort Lafayette and the old Trinity Church in New York, and the first building at Rutgers College.

From its inception, the James Tait Black prize was organised without overt publicity. There was a lack of press and publisher attention, initially at least, because Edinburgh was distant from the literary centres of the country. The decision about the award was made by the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Four winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature received the James Tait Black earlier in their careers: William Golding, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee each collected the James Tait Black for fiction, whilst Doris Lessing took the prize for biography.

Claire is a 2001 film directed by Milford Thomas. The story itself is loosely based on Kaguyahime, on an old Japanese fairy tale about an elderly childless couple that finds a child from the moon in a stalk of bamboo and raises her as their own. Thomas’ version tells a tale of an elderly male couple on a farm in the rural 1920s South who find the moon princess in an ear of corn. Thomas took the prize for Best First Feature (Special Mention) with this little number at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 2002.

The two ships fought each other for two days, and by the second Downman had exhausted his supply of shot, and resorted to firing nails and pieces of iron hoop at his opponent. Having observed the difficulty his captain was in, Master Marshall secured the Spanish crew of his prize below deck, and then took the prize crew off in a small boat to come to Downman's assistance. After a fierce fight the Papillon was driven off, with Speedy suffering losses of five killed and four wounded. Downman then recaptured his prize that the master had been compelled to abandon, and returned to Lisbon to carry out repairs.

The Prize in Literature has a history of controversial awards and notorious snubs. Many major authors have been ignored by the Nobel Committee, possibly for political or extra-literary reasons, including Irishman James Joyce, Frenchman Marcel Proust, and Americans Henry James, W. H. Auden, Philip Roth, and John Updike. From 1901 to 1912, the committee's work reflected an interpretation of the "ideal direction" stated in Nobel's will as "a lofty and sound idealism", which caused Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola and Mark Twain to be rejected. Sweden's historic antipathy towards Russia was cited as the reason neither Tolstoy nor Anton Chekhov took the prize.

During the years Täby Galopp made a significant impression on the international scene, being the first course outside the five main European countries to stage a Pattern race following the granting of Group 3 status to the Stockholm Cup International in 1994. In recognition of the quality of racing at the track, a second race, the Täby Open Sprint Championship, was awarded Group 3 status in 1998. The 12 furlong race regularly attracted good quality horses from the rest of Europe keen to take on the best Scandinavian middle-distance horses. In 1997 Harbour Dues took the prize for Lady Herries before heading down to Australia to run a gallant fourth in the Melbourne Cup.

He took the prize of Achilleus, because Zeus and Moira predetermined his decision.Iliad 19.87: "Howbeit it is not I that am at fault, but Zeus and Fate (Moira) and Erinys, that walketh in darkness, seeing that in the midst of the place of gathering they cast upon my soul fierce blindness on that day, when of mine own arrogance I took from Achilles his prize." In the last section of the Iliad, Moira is the "mighty fate" (μοίρα κραταιά moíra krataiá) who leads destiny and the course of events. Thetis the mother of Achilleus warns him that he will not live long because mighty fate stands hard by him, therefore he must give to Priam the corpse of Hector.

She answered with all her guns, knocked out one of the Confederate cannon, and drove the Southern soldiers from the area. Albatross made her first capture on 18 July, when a party from the steamer boarded and seized the schooner Velasco of Galveston, Texas, which was carrying false papers while sailing under the Lone Star flag from Matanzas, Cuba, with a cargo of sugar. Albatross took the prize to Hampton Roads and turned her over to Flag Officer Stringham on 20 July. The next day, while returning to her station, Albatross exchanged fire with the North Carolina steamer Beaufort lying off Bodie Island and forced the Southern ship to retire through Oregon Inlet to safety in Pamlico Sound.

Between 1847 and 1852 Bond and pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple used the Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power. This was the largest telescope in North America at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical excellence in photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London. On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Whipple and Bond made the first daguerreotype of a star (Vega). Harvard College Observatory is historically important to astronomy, as many women including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Williamina Fleming, and Florence Cushman performed pivotal stellar classification research.

The earliest record of a football match being played in the Huddersfield area is in 1848, when a team of men from Hepworth took on a team of men from Holmfirth near Whnuil Bank in Holmfirth. Hepworth won a closely fought game which "exhibited the usual amount of confusions, bloody noses, etc" and took the prize of £5 which had been jointly donated by each side. There appears to have been no formal structure to sport in the Huddersfield area until the opening of the Apollo Gymnasium on 3 August 1850. At this time the gymnasium was the only venue in the town where young men could take part in physical activities, it offered the opportunity to participate in fencing, swimming, bowling, cricket and many other sports.

The first joint recipients of the award were Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena who won the prize in 1981. Lane was honored for his "long devotion to the cause of refugees" while Irena was described as "very much a human rights activist". Chinese dissidents Li Shuxian and Fang Lizhi were jointly honored in 1991; two American Presidents, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton took the prize as a pair in 2005, and film actress Angelina Jolie and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees High Commissioner António Guterres received the award together in 2007. Since the first award presentation in 1957, the IRC has made it to 46 recipients, 24 of which were American; the majority of awards have been to politicians.

Work with Harry Partch on "The Bewitched", a music and dance piece for the 1957 festival, rekindled Garvey's interest in jazz, and for the 1959 festival he invited the Modern Jazz Quartet to play with a student jazz band and a string ensemble. Because of student interest in continuing the jazz band, Garvey sought funding from the School of Music, but faced strong opposition. By October 1960 he was able to get $150 from the school, and obtained additional money and administrative support from the student union. Garvey and the band made their debut at a routine Thursday morning School of Music function on December 8, 1960. In April 1964, they entered the Collegiate Jazz Festival at Notre Dame University for the first time and took the prize for Best Big Band.

Simon Geschke of CCC Team won the mountains classification, overtaking Tomasz Marczyński on the final day after an intense fight within the breakaway, whilst Charles Planet of Team Novo Nordisk took the active rider classification, after entering the breakaway on four of six competitively raced stages and leading the classification for all but one day. By finishing ninth in the overall standings, Bora-Hansgrohe's Rafał Majka took the prize for the highest-placed Polish rider, while the teams classification was comfortably won by Team Ineos. The race was marred by the death of rider Bjorg Lambrecht after he crashed during the third stage, hitting a concrete culvert and dying during surgery in a hospital, where he was transported by ambulance following resuscitation at the crash site. The fourth stage was not competitively raced; instead, it was shortened and run as a cycling procession.

She came up with and captured what proved to be the French privateer Braave, of 14 guns and 110 men. On 16 August 1804 Loire gave chase to a suspicious-looking sail. After a chase of 20 hours, including a running fight of a quarter of an hour, during which the British had one midshipman and five men wounded, and the French lost two men killed and five wounded, the latter hauled down her colours. She proved to be French privateer , of Bordeaux, mounting 30 guns, eight-pounders on the main deck, with a crew of 240 men under François Aregnaudeau; the same ship that, about five months earlier, had captured the .James, Naval History of Great Britain - Vol III, p 276 Loire took the prize in tow to Plymouth where the prisoners were disembarked on 31 August.