The MacArthur Foundation awards monetary prizes each year in order to provide financial assistance for selected innovators.Bonnie Bassler, 40, molecular ecobiologist; Princeton, N.J.Ann…
The premier prize for American fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction, first given in 1918, is widely recognized as one of the biggest prizes in the American publishing industry. Before 1948, the…
The Templeton Prize, an award to encourage progress in religion, was established in 1972 by Sir John Templeton, a Tennessee-born financial analyst and…
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(The) or Choking-stool, for ducking scolds, is not connected with choke (to stifle), but the French choquer; hence the archaic verb cuck (to throw), and one still in use, chuck (chuck-…
