The winner earns not only prestige, but a cool million dollar prize, the largest in the history of eSports, and a figure dramatically higher than any prize awarded in the scene before.
On the fiction front, there were shout-outs for Tim Winton's much-loved Cloudstreet, Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, and Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.
Mattei shook up the business by offering oil-exporting nations a bigger share of production. (He also reportedly tried to win a sweet deal by enticing the Shah of Iran with an Italian princess.) At one point British diplomats fretted that Mattei's dealmaking could "seriously prejudice the stability of the Middle East, " according to The Prize, Daniel Yergin's 1991 history of the oil business.
Gasque sees it, map makers should prize locally used apostrophes as mainstays of history.
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Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a history of lung problems dating back to when he was a political prisoner on Robben Island during apartheid.
He opens with an excellent thumbnail life of Alfred Nobel himself and a briskly critical history of the sometimes wayward administration of the prize.
Motor Trend has a history of bestowing this prize on path-breaking vehicles that have yet to be tested by real drivers in a hostile world.
Alfred Nobel was tasked with figuring out how to stabilise nitroglycerine to make it safe enough to handle, wrote author Burton Feldman in The Nobel Prize : A History of Genius , Controversy and Prestige.
It will study the same kind of supernovae that led to the Nobel prize, in a bid to unravel the "expansion history" of the Universe - when its expansion increased and decreased over billions of years.
His book was also shortlisted for the Dingle Prize, which honours publications about the history of science.
For his tireless efforts Martin Luther King became one of the one of history's most revered advocates of non-violent social change and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.
In The Prize, which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1992, Dan provides a comprehensive history of oil that traces the development of the industry from its beginnings in the 19th century when it began producing kerosene for lamps to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.
Now 72 and a resident of Beijing, he's in New York this month to receive the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize for "Tombstone, " his painstakingly researched, definitive history of the famine.
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Thursday, Friday and Saturday marked the playoffs for the World Championships, and teams from all over the world were assembled to compete for a first prize of a million dollars, the largest by far in pro gaming history.
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His efforts won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the gratitude of governments in London, Dublin and Washington and yet history will probably remember him as a politician whose personal readiness to do a deal was greater than that of the voters on whose support he depended.
By so doing, he earned a place in history of inestimably greater importance than any ephemeral arms control deal or Nobel prize.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
Whether the people he has surrounded himself with see their positions as a public trust or as a prize in a lottery will ultimately determine the character of Gus Dur's government - and his place in history.
North, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, asserts in his book Structure and Change in Economic History that when most of mankind stopped being hunter-gatherers 10, 000 years ago and settled down to farm, there was a basic shift from common property rights to exclusive ones.
The prize seems to focus particularly on what the European federation had accomplished over its 54-year history, in spite of the spectre of member nations grappling today with recession, and tensions over bailing one another out.
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