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  2. Nordart - Wikipedia

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    NordArt Prizes. In 2010, NordArt began awarding the NordArt Prize and the NordArt Public Choice Award. All award recipients are invited to participate again in NordArt the year after their win. The NordArt Prize. Sponsored by Johanna and Hans-Julius Ahlmann, the NordArt Prize is awarded each year to one artist.

  3. Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    The amount of prize money depends upon how much money the Nobel Foundation can award each year. The purse has increased since the 1980s, when the prize money was 880,000 SEK per prize (c. 2.6 million SEK altogether, US$350,000 today). In 2009, the monetary award was 10 million SEK (US$1.4 million).

  4. Prize money - Wikipedia

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    Prize money refers in particular to naval prize money, usually arising in naval warfare, but also in other circumstances. It was a monetary reward paid in accordance with the prize law of a belligerent state to the crew of a ship belonging to the state, either a warship of its navy or a privateer vessel commissioned by the state.

  5. Incentives for Olympic medalists by country - Wikipedia

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    Gold. ₱10 million. Silver. ₱5 million. Bronze. ₱2 million. Prior to the RA 10699, standard government incentives were codified under the RA 9064 or the National Athletes, Coaches and Trainers Benefits and Incentives Act of 2001, which mandates a prize money of ₱5 million for Olympic gold medalists, ₱2.5 million for silver medalists ...

  6. Orteig Prize - Wikipedia

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    The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 reward (equivalent to $439,000 in 2023) [3] offered on May 22, 1919, by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first Allied aviator (s) to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice versa. [2] The offer was in the spirit of several similar aviation prize offers, and was made in a letter to Alan Ramsay ...

  7. List of richest literary prizes - Wikipedia

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    Plus 4 winners of $60,000 and 5 of $30,000. Total prize pool is $650,000. [8] 250,000. US$ 250,000. Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language. Author. Mexico. Spanish.

  8. Prize (law) - Wikipedia

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    Pique. , a French frigate captured as a British prize in 1795. In admiralty law prizes (from the Old French prise, "taken, seized" [1]) are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict. The most common use of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and its cargo as a prize of war.

  9. Booker Prize - Wikipedia

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    The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives £ ...