ellauri067.html on line 189: 1975 Pynchon declines William Dean Howells Medal
ellauri080.html on line 744: For his service in the Boer War, Gandhi was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal. What the fuck was he doing fighting a colonial war for the British? On the other hand, Boers were no better than Brits in that respect. They took turns on sitting on the natives, with the Indian middle class sitting in the middle.
ellauri106.html on line 35: Some consider his best novel, My Life as a Man. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama at the White House in 2011. He died of congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018, at age 85. True — he never won the Nobel Prize for literature. D´oh.
ellauri109.html on line 270: In 2000 Searle received the Jean Nicod Prize; in 2004, the National Humanities Medal; and in 2006, the Mind & Brain Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010. Searle's early work on speech acts, influenced by J. L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein, helped establish his reputation. His notable concepts include the "Chinese room" argument against "strong" artificial intelligence.
ellauri109.html on line 282: Searle has five honorary-doctorate degrees from four different countries and is an honorary visiting professor at Tsing Hua University and at East China Normal University. In 2000 Searle received the Jean Nicod Prize; in 2004, the National Humanities Medal; and in 2006, the Mind & Brain Prize.
ellauri109.html on line 673: Dryden tunnetaan erityisesti satiirisista runoistaan, joissa hän kehitti herooisen säeparin käyttöä. Näitä ovat muun muassa Absalom and Achitopel (1681) ja The Medal and Mack-Flecknoe.
ellauri183.html on line 96: As a reward for winning the feud, U.S. President Barack Obama presented the 2010 National Lizardities Medal to novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on March 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Getty Images.
ellauri207.html on line 91: “Dr. Parnault’s elegant explications of seemingly every extant mathematical concept or quandary make this text as indispensible as any in our field,” says Fields Medal-winning MIT Professor Gerald Lambeau. “His presentation of combinatorial mathematics left me breathless.”
ellauri275.html on line 97: The Europe-Georgia Institute (EGI) is the leading hybrid warfare independent civil society organization in Georgia. Our mission is to advance "democracy", "human rights", "rule of law", and - first and foremost - free markets in Georgia and the Caucasus, and to empower a new generation of leaders to find solutions that are essential for Georgia’s development and for successful common future of the Caucasus. Our mission is to inspire, motivate, empower, and connect people to change their world. Its founder, one Melashvili, is the holder of the first prize award for his essay about Janri Kashia’s book “Totalitarianism” and Mikheil Javakhishvili Medal for a documentary film about Soviet repressions.
ellauri294.html on line 665: Kansa suri tämän naisen kuolemaa, joka oli lähes yksin vaihtanut alaa antropofagiaan. Vuosi hänen kuolemansa jälkeen presidentti Jimmy Carter myönsi Meadille Presidential Medal of Freedom -mitalin hänen työstään. Ajettu ja myötätuntoinen, itsepäinen ja periksiantamaton, rakastettu ja vihattu – ei todellakaan ollut ketään Margaretin kaltaista.
ellauri294.html on line 667: Mead aloitti ensimmäisen kenttätyönsä vuonna 1925 opiskellessaan teini-ikäisiä tyttöjä Samoalla. Hänen havainnot julkaistiin myöhemmin kirjassaan Coming of Age in Samoa. Mead matkusti Uuteen Guineaan vuonna 1929 tutkimaan Manus-kansaa. Hän palasi Manukseen usein myöhempinä vuosinaan, minkä ansiosta hän saattoi suorittaa ensimmäisen sukupolville ulottuvan antropologisen tutkimuksen. Mead alkoi kirjoittaa artikkeleita Redbook -lehteen useista eri aiheista vuonna 1961. Hänen vahvasti ilmaistut ja usein kiistanalaiset mielipiteensä tekivät hänestä tutun nimen. Maapähkinäviljelijä Jimmy Carter palkizi Meadin postuumisti Presidential Medal of Freedom -mitalilla vuonna 1979 työstään antropologian alalla.
ellauri316.html on line 462: Vuonna 1937 NKVD pidätti Bonnierin isän ja teloitettiin osana Stalinin suurta puhdistusta. Kun tammikuussa 1980 Saharov saatiin karkotettua Gorkiin (Nizhni Novgorodiin siis), ulkomaalaisilta suljettuun kaupunkiin, ahdistelusta ja julkisesti tuomitusta Bonnerista tuli hänen pelastusköysi, joka matkusti Gorkin ja Moskovan välillä tuodakseen esiin hänen kirjoituksiaan. Hiänen pidätyksensä huhtikuussa 1984 "neuvostonvastaisen agitpropin" vuoksi ja tuomio viideksi vuodeksi maanpakoon Gorkiin häiritsi heidän elämäänsä jälleen, mutta loppui sentään turha reissaus. Hiän kritisoi myös kansainvälisen "kvartetin" kahden valtion ratkaisua Israelin ja Palestiinan väliseen konfliktiin ja ilmaisi pelkonsa antisemitismin noususta Euroopassa. Vuonna 1999 Jelena Bonner sai Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom -mitalin.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 536: In June, Trump awarded trickle-down proponent Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 622: Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 October 1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. Long an activist covering such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she campaigns especially on behalf of authors. She has received the Benson & Hedges Medal for her damn long writings.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 455: The Buber Medal highlights the most outstanding works of Buber, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 413: Nadine kiskoi 90-vuotiaaxi. Kotipyssyn aikoihin 90-luvulla se oli 70-vuotias, sen alter ego Harald oli 50v, eli raamatullinen three score and ten tulis täyteen 20v kuluttua Nadinen ikäisenä. Vaan eipäs siihen jäänytkään. Nadinen eka mies jaxoi 84v, kasööri kuoli 93-vuotiaana v. 2001, muze oli syntynyt 1908 eli ennen maailmansotia ja oli 15v Nadinea vanhempi. Nadine vaihtoi izeään nuoremmasta Burre Borraresta selvästi vanhempaan ja varakkaampaan juutalaiseen. Vaikkei Gavronskykaan mikään turha jutku ollut: Alumnus, benefactor and orthodontics lecturer in the School of Oral Health Sciences, Professor Gerald Gavronsky (BDS 1948, MDent 1981) died in November, aged 84. Born 27 April 1924, Gavronsky was awarded the Henry St. John Randel Bronze Medal of the Dental Association of South Africa by the University in 1949. University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. Alumni Relations Obituaries 2008. Mitalisija, kuitenkin vaan pronssia. Kaikki viittaa siihen että Nadine oli isän tyttö.
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 631: He was born in Viipuri, Viipuri Province, Finland, in 1919, to ship captain Jalmari (Ilmari) Törni, and his wife, Rosa (née Kosonen). He had two sisters: Salme Kyllikki (b. 1920) and Kaija Iris (b. 1922). An athletic youth, Törni was an early friend of future Olympic Boxing Gold Medalist Sten Suvio. After attending business school and serving with the Civil Guard, Törni entered military service in 1938, joining Jaeger Battalion 4 stationed at Kiviniemi; when the Winter War began in November 1939, his enlistment was extended and his unit confronted invading Soviet troops at Rautu.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 251: Versed in foreign languages, he translated and "adapted" (appropriated) plays by Ibsen, Sartre and Obey. He read and spoke German, French and Spanish, and his scholarship included significant original research on James Joyce and Lope de Vega. He had met Jean-Paul Sartre on a U.S. lecture tour after the war, and was arrested under the influence of existentialism, although rejecting its atheist implications. In 1960, Wilder was awarded the first ever Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American LBTQ culture.
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