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The Princeton Prize in Race Relations, together with a cash award of up to $1,000, is offered to those applicants doing the best work in each locale. In addition, other worthy applicants are honored with “Certificates of Accomplishment.”. All honorees are recognized at their schools’ awards assemblies and at area-wide recognition events.
Olympic diploma. An Olympic diploma is a paper certificate awarded to the top eight finishers in competitions at the Olympic Games. [ 1] The practice of awarding diplomas has existed from the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, at first being awarded only to the winner of each event. The number of participants so awarded has increased ...
Brittney Griner. Brittney Yvette Griner ( / ˈɡraɪnər /; born October 18, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). [ 1] She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. women's national basketball team [ 2][ 3] and a six-time WNBA All-Star. [ 4]
The combined effect of these two laws adversely affected the continuity of Virginia's American Indian tribes. The Racial Integrity Act called for only two racial categories to be recorded on birth certificates, rather than the traditional six: "white" and "colored" (which now included Indian and all discernible mixed-race persons). [19]
The master race (German: Herrenrasse) is a pseudoscientific concept in Nazi ideology in which the putative "Aryan race" is deemed the pinnacle of human racial hierarchy. [ 1] Members were referred to as " Herrenmenschen " ("master humans"). [ 2]
The FIA Prize Giving Ceremony is an annual event promoted by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) which honours the achievements of all FIA Champions over the past season. In 2014, FIA inaugurated a new format where FIA Champions and guests take part in a competition held at a karting track designed by Hermann Tilke, under the ...
The grades are issued "with the sole purpose of permitting the registration of races on the FIA International Calendar, for the categories of vehicles specified". [ 1 ] Grades 1–4 concern various categories of cars depending on their power to weight ratio , and grade 6 relates to autocross , rallycross and ice racing courses.
Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. [ 1] Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer ...