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Prize name Type Host country Primary language Notes Ref(s) 1,361,000 DH 5,000,000 Million's Poet — UAE Arabic Award for a single poem. Total prizes for 2nd to 5th positions are approximately $2,723,000. Sister prize of Prince of Poets [1] 1,092,000 €1,000,000 Premio Planeta de Novela (winner) Book Spain Spanish See also runner-up of same ...
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).
In years in which the Nobel Prize is not awarded due to external events or a lack of nominations, the prize money is returned to the funds delegated to the relevant prize. [6] The Nobel Prize was not awarded between 1940 and 1942 due to the outbreak of World War II. [7]
He likely earned an enlistment bounty, as well as prize money by capturing multiple blockade runners. He developed bronchitis, suffered a serious hand injury, and eventually received a Civil War Campaign Medal. After the war, he lived the rest of his life in Lockhartville, Nova Scotia. He retired from commercial sailing in 1875 but continued ...
The two roots of prize law and the consequent distribution of prize money are the medieval maritime codes, such as the Consolato Del Mare and Rolls of Oleron, which codified the customary laws that reserved legal rights over certain property found or captured at sea, in harbour or on the shore for the rulers of maritime states, [1] and the 16th and 17th century formulation of international law ...
They are classed as work lotteries, residents' lotteries, or private society lotteries, and do not require a licence, provided that all the money staked is paid out as prize money. [ 9 ] The popularity of the term "sweepstakes" may derive from the Irish Sweepstakes , which were very popular from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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 and ₱1 million for bronze medalists.
That the prize is not an original Nobel Prize has been a subject of controversy, with four of Nobel's relatives having formally distanced themselves from the Prize in Economic Sciences. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The award was established in 1968 by an endowment "in perpetuity" from Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank , to commemorate the bank's 300th ...