What is the name of the award for dubious scientific achievements. Harvard named winners of the Shnobel Prize for the most curious scientific research
Awards are very expensive, there is the most expensive in the world, and there is an award recognized as the most expensive in the USSR. It is interesting to know about the unusual award, which is awarded to the most ridiculous of deaths.
Most ridiculous deaths award
Every now and then we hear that a prize has been given to someone, it turns out that a prize has been established and for ridiculous death... Its name is the Darwin Prize. It is a virtual reward.The purpose of the award is to encourage the removal of defective genes from the human gene pool. Sometimes the prize is awarded to the survivors, but most often they become laureates after death.
Anyone who ditched himself, allowed himself to be ditched by someone or something out of stupidity, or performed certain actions, due to which he lost the possibility of procreation, can apply for the Darwin Prize. Death due to someone else's mistake is not eligible for this award, as it is common bad luck.
All cases must be checked for reliability, and they must be "fresh", that is, must have occurred no later than a year ago. Since true idiocy is unrepeatable, the most extraordinary case that led to death often becomes the winner.
Most expensive award
Of all the famous awards in the world, two of the most expensive can be distinguished. One of them is the highest award Russian Empire... Its name is the Diamond Badge of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. Estimated cost - about five million four hundred thousand dollars. 
The other most expensive award is the Victory Order. Only seventeen people possessed it, and three of them had two such awards. It is impossible to determine the approximate cost of the order, since none of the orders are for sale.
The highest award in Russia
In tsarist Russia, its own system of awarding was formed, medals and orders were awarded in pre-revolutionary Russia, in Soviet Russia and, finally, in modern Russia. 
Honorary title Hero Russian Federation implies the presentation of the Gold Star medal. This is the highest award of Russia. It is relatively new since it appeared after the collapse of the USSR.
The most expensive award of the USSR
No one argues that the main thing in any award is the merit of the person to whom it is given. Nevertheless, funds are spent on the production of any award. Among all the awards of the USSR, the Order of Victory was recognized as the most priceless. 
The order was established in the fall of 1943 to reward military leaders, thanks to whom a victory was won in an important large-scale operation, which entailed a change in the situation at the front in favor of our army.
It looks like five pointed star, which is decorated with five artificial rubies and one hundred and seventy-four diamonds. In the center is the image of the Spasskaya Tower. Gold, platinum, silver and enamel were used in the manufacture of this piece of jewelry. The size of the jewel is seventy two millimeters.
The craftsmen of the Moscow jewelry and watch factory were engaged in making. Such an order was presented only twenty times, the military leaders of the USSR, Stalin and some foreign citizens were awarded. Today, all orders are kept in depositories and museums in Russia.
No one knows the exact price of this order, but it is known that according to today's estimates, the cost of materials used in the manufacture of the award is about one hundred thousand dollars.
Only one order is in a private collection. It once belonged to Mihai I. When the king of Romania was forced to flee the country, the reward is believed to have fallen into the hands of Ceausescu. He sold it for a million dollars to the Rockefeller family. They, in turn, sold it at auction for two million. Experts believe that if the order appeared at the auction today, they would have paid about twenty million for it.
The most prestigious award in the world
There is practically not a single person who does not know about the Nobel Prize. It is she who is recognized as the most prestigious in the world. Its founder is chemist Alfred Nobel. He patented the discovery of dynamite, on his account there are a number of other discoveries directly related to explosions. Despite this, the brilliant chemist strove for world peace. He decided to reward people who made significant contributions over the past year in five areas - physics, chemistry, literature and peace consolidation, physiology and medicine. To do this, he wrote a will in the amount of nine million dollars, which became the amount for the foundation of the foundation. Financing international award, according to this will, must be paid from the above amount. 
The prize was first awarded in 1901, which was timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the death of Nobel. Beginning in 1969, this prize was awarded for special achievements in the field of economics.
The solemn presentation ceremony always takes place in Stockholm on the same day, namely the tenth of December. This date is the day of Nobel's death ..
Receiving such awards is a big cause for celebration. And at festive events, alcohol is often served, including the most expensive cognac in the world.
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Sex is one of the topics that traditionally attract readers' attention. What writer can resist not to insert a couple of piquant scenes into his work? Moans, sighs and are always more popular than falafels at a hipster matinee. But spoiling the description of sex is as easy as the sex itself, well, it's not for us to tell you. Therefore, the British magazine Literary Review has been awarding writers since 1993 for the worst description of sex in novels, and not in love or erotic novels, but in serious literature. Initially, the award was given to all nominees, but since 1994, the jury has chosen to award one winner.
In 1994, Philip Hawke won the award for his description of the kiss in the novel "Rock Breakers": "Their jaws merged in a feverish mutual grinding." It's strange that the book also won an anti-Dental Association award.
In 1995, the award went to presenter Philip Kerr for an excerpt from his debut novel Grill Grid: "His astronomical length device looked tense and very worried, because he had to perform a very elegant and at the same time mysterious and dark task." Do you understand what this is about? We are almost!
The awards also went to writers who compared the vagina to an exotic fungus in a crevice of a tree and to wet rubber in 1996 and 97. In 2001, the award went to the author of a passage about a penis “cold and lifeless like the North Pole,” and in 2006 to a writer who compared a penis to a shower twitching in an empty bathtub.
Last year's nominees were 2014 Booker Prize laureate Richard Flanagan with his novel The Narrow Road to the Far North, Haruki Murakami with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Wandering Years, Scottish journalist and BBC TV presenter Kirsty Wok with her debut novel "The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle". Richard Flanagan's sex scene is interrupted by the appearance of a dog with a dead penguin in its mouth, Murakami describes the threesome using mathematical terms ("she began to slowly rotate her torso, as if she were drawing a complex diagram in the air"), and Kirsty Wok's characters "keep lava behind their cheeks." We hope you are not horny!
Pigasus Prize
The Pigasus Prize (its name combines the words pig and pegasus - "pig" and "pegasus") has been awarded since 1982 for the greatest contribution to pseudoscience. Founder James Randi, a skeptic and whistleblower of the paranormal, personally selects nominees from among those who claim to have supernatural powers. The award is given in several nominations: "Pseudoscience", "Charlatan of the Year", "The Most Useless Research" and "The Most Paranormal Media". Winners on the Montel Williams Show, which regularly invites a mentally ill woman named Sylvia Brown, and Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Ross, who claims to be able to shoot electromagnetic beams from their eyes.
James Randi does not give out the awards personally, but sends them to the winners using telekinesis. And if someone did not receive the award, it is solely because his paranormal abilities are not in order.
The most famous winner of the award was the British illusionist Uri Geller, who was bending spoons with the power of thought. The award even bore his name at the dawn of its existence. Uri Geller has repeatedly sued Svinasus for libel, but has not won a single case. I would rather use my energy to spoil the cutlery in James Randi's house.
Lantern Rouge Award
The award has been rescued since 1903 in the Tour de France for the last place. It is a red lantern (as, in fact, is translated "Lantern Rouge"), similar to those that were hung on the last car of the train. Oddly enough, getting it was not considered shameful at all, and the participants of the races even competed to be the last to come. This earned them public and press attention. In 1980, the Tour de France management even had to make an official announcement that cyclists deliberately arriving last to get the Lantern Rouge would be disqualified.
The most famous winner of the award is the Belgian cyclist Wim Vanselvenant, who received it three times. True, then he left sports and became a farmer.
Ernie Award
Ernie, the award for the most sexist statement, is named after the secretary of the Australian workers' union Ernie Ekoba, a well-known misogynist in the area. He famously said that women are not even fit to shear sheep. Therefore, a sheep flaunts at the top of the Ernie award, respectively.
The award is a gala dinner attended by about 400 women, and the winner is determined by the whistle with which his name is greeted. The prize is awarded in several nominations, and its holders in different time became famous politicians, lawyers, public figures, athletes and journalists. The winners of the prize can also be women for manifestations of misogyny.
The most famous winner of the sexist award is politician John Maloney, the mayor of a small Australian town, who invited women to come to his native Mountain Is, because the men there are absolutely picky.
Big Brother Award
Named after George Orwell's dystopian character "1984", the award is given for the most flagrant violation of immunity privacy and freedom by a state or organization. Organized in 1998 in England, it quickly spread around the world and today is awarded in 18 countries around the world. (And if you don’t know about it, it’s only thanks to Big Brother who makes sure you remain in the dark.) The jury consists of scientists, lawyers and journalists, they decide who to "reward" for illegal data collection and intrusion into privacy.
The award winners were Google for their controversial policy of collecting information about users, Vladimir Putin - for almost all of his actions, and Tony Blair, who received the award in a specially created for him nomination "smiling puppeteer".
Stella Award
The award for the most ridiculous judgment, presented in the United States from 1992 to 2007, was named after the American Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at McDonalds and sued the company $ 2.9 million.
For its short existence, the award winners were Mary Ubaudi, who filed a lawsuit against Mazda for the fact that her car did not have instructions for a seat belt, Christopher Roller, who sued David Copperfield and David Blaine for violating the laws of physics (Christopher himself, by the way, he considered himself God) and Judge Roy Person Jr., who filed a $ 65 million lawsuit at the dry cleaner for losing his trousers there.
Stella Award (English The TRUE Stella Awards) is an annual award given for the most ridiculous court decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself in a McDonald's restaurant in 1992, after which she filed a lawsuit against the restaurant, where the jury awarded her $ 2.9 million in compensation.
(Ignobel Prize, Anti-Nobel Prize, Ig Nobel Prize) - a parody of the Nobel Prize, where the most ridiculous and useless research is awarded. Ten Shnobel Prizes are awarded at the beginning of October, that is, at the time when the laureates of the real Nobel Prize are named, and real Nobel laureatesand the awards ceremony takes place at Harvard and is broadcast on American television and radio in multiple languages. The award was established in 1991 by Mark Abrahams and the comic magazine Annals of Incredible Research.
Darwin Prize ("Darwin Awards") - a virtual award, awarded annually to individuals who in the most stupid way died or lost their reproductive function and as a result, deprived themselves of the opportunity to contribute to the gene pool of humanity, thereby improving it. A prerequisite for receiving an award is the complete absence of direct descendants.
(English Golden Raspberry) - an anti-award invented in 1981 by American John Wilson, celebrating the worst acting, script, direction, film song and film of the year. Traditionally, the Golden Raspberry nominees are announced the day before the Oscar nominees are announced, the laureates - the day before the Oscar winners. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in gold paint from a spray bottle priced at $ 5.
« Silver galosh"- the award, established by the radio" Silver Rain ", is presented" for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business. " Established in 1996, the author of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe award Pavel Vashchekin, the ceremony is held annually.
Anti-award " Glass bolt"Was founded in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and is awarded for stupid or malicious decisions of Moscow officials involved in the" arrangement "of the city. The laureates are awarded with the "Glass Bolt" statuette - a symbol of closeness and curvature. Since 2012, the award has been declared All-Russian
Chicken Chicken Award (English Chicken Little Award, named after the main character of Walt Disney's cartoon Chicken Chicken), full title Chicken Chicken Award for exaggerated predictions of inevitable destruction environment (English The "Chicken Little" Award for Exaggerated Predictions About the Impending Destruction of Our Environment) is a comic award established by the Center for National Concern at the same time as the Julian Simon Award for a sober view of the same problem.
Lantern Rouge (fr. Lanterne rouge; red light) - cyclist who took the last place in the overall standings of the Tour de France; also the title of the prize awarded to that athlete. The name comes from the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
World Folly Award - an award founded in 2003 to honor the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance. The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
Literary anti-award "Paragraph" awarded since autumn 2001 in four nominations: "Worst proofreading", "Worst translation", "Worst editing" and "Complete paragraph" (for complete violation of all norms of book publishing). For "especially cynical crimes against Russian literature" awarded "Honorary ignorance". "Prizewinners" are determined by a special expert council based on the readers' opinions sent to the editorial office of the "Knizhnoye Obozreniye" newspaper.
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World Folly Award - the award, which from 2008 to 2008 was awarded "for the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance." The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
The last three ceremonies were hosted by American comedian Lewis Black.
2006 laureates
In 2006, the categories awarded included:
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(If someone is interested in the details of the real fate of Radomir, Magdalene, Cathars and Templars, please see the Supplements after the chapters of Isidora or the separate (but still being prepared) book "Children of the Sun" when it will be displayed on the website www.levashov.info for free copy).I stood completely shocked, as it was almost always after the next story of the North ...
Was that tiny, just-born boy really the most famous Jacques de Molay ?! How many different amazing legends have I heard about this mysterious man! .. How many miracles were associated with his life in stories that I once loved!
(Unfortunately, miraculous legends about this mysterious man have not survived to this day ... He, like Radomir, was made a weak, cowardly and spineless master, who "failed" to preserve his great Order ...)
- Can you tell us a little more about him, Sever? Was he such a powerful prophet and miracle worker, as my father once told me? ..
Smiling at my impatience, Sever nodded in the affirmative.
- Yes, I will tell you about him, Isidora ... I knew him for many years. And I spoke to him many times. I loved this man very much ... And I missed him very much.
I didn't ask why he didn't help him during the execution? It made no sense, since I knew his answer in advance.
- You - what ?! Have you spoken to him ?! Please, will you tell me about it, Sever ?! - I exclaimed.
I know, with my delight I looked like a child ... But it didn't matter. Sever understood how important his story was to me, and patiently helped me.
“Only I would like to know first what happened to his mother and the Cathars. I know that they died, but I would like to see it with my own eyes ... Help me, please, Sever.
And again reality disappeared, returning me to Montsegur, where wonderful brave people lived their last hours - disciples and followers of the Magdalene ...
Cathars.
Esclarmonde lay quietly on the bed. Her eyes were closed, it seemed as if she was asleep, exhausted by losses ... But I felt - it was just protection. She just wanted to be alone with her sorrow ... Her heart suffered endlessly. The body refused to obey ... Just a few moments ago, her hands were holding her newborn son ... They hugged her husband ... Now they are gone into the unknown. And no one could say with certainty whether they would be able to escape the hatred of the "hunters" who flooded the foot of Montsegur. And the whole valley, as far as the eye could see ... The fortress was the last stronghold of Qatar, after it there was nothing left. They suffered a complete defeat ... Exhausted by hunger and winter cold, they were helpless against the stone "rain" of catapults that rained down on Montsegur from morning to night.
An award or award is usually awarded on a competitive basis to a person or organization for outstanding results in a particular field of activity. Below is a list of the ten most famous awards in the world.
The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious US award in literature, journalism, music and theater, opens the list of the most famous awards. It was founded on August 17, 1903 by newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer. The prize has been awarded annually in twenty-one categories since 1917. The prize is $ 10,000.
The MTV Video Music Awards is an annual award given by MTV for the creation of video clips. The ceremony was first held in 1984 in New York. The record holder for the number of statuettes won, the so-called "Moonmanow", is the American singer Madonna, who has won 20 awards.
BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are the UK's most prestigious annual awards for achievement in pop music. The award was first presented in 1977 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations. Awarded annually since 1982. The record holder for the number of nominations is the British singer Robbie Williams (17 BRIT Awards).
Seventh in the list of the most famous awards is occupied by the Grammy - the annual music award of the American Recording Academy, founded on March 14, 1958. Awarded by voting in 78 categories across 30 music genres. As of February 2009, a total of 7,578 awards have been presented.
Cannes Film Festival is an annual international film festival founded in 1946. Held at the Palais des Festivals and Congresses in the resort town of Cannes, southern France. The most prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival for the best film is the Palme d'Or.
The fifth place in the list of the most famous awards in the world goes to the Golden Globe. It is an annual American award, awarded since 1944 for motion pictures and television pictures, based on a vote of approximately 90 international journalistsliving in Hollywood. The record holder for the number of nominations is Meryl Streep (29 awards).
BAFTA
BAFTA - independent charitable organization, which supports, develops and promotes such trends in art as film, television and computer games... The organization was formed in 1947 under the leadership of David Lean. The first BAFTA award ceremony took place in 1948 in London. The winners receive a golden mask as a prize.
Third place in the list of the ten most famous awards in the world goes to the Booker Prize. It is the most prestigious literary award presented annually in the UK since 1969 for the best original novel written in english language... The winner of the award will receive £ 50,000.
Oscar
In second place in the list of the most famous awards in the world is "Oscar" - the most prestigious American film awards on the planet, annually awarded since 1929 in Los Angeles, at the Dolby Theater for various achievements in the film industry. From 1953 to the present, the ceremony has been televised in over 200 countries. Walt Disney received the most Oscars (26 awards).
The Nobel Prize is an international annual prize awarded for outstanding scientific research, revolutionary inventions, or major contributions to culture or society. The award was named after the Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor Alfred Nobel, who in his will ordered a part of his capital to be awarded as an award for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and the world. Between 1901-2015 Nobel Prize 870 laureates and 26 organizations were awarded.
