• The Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts honors achievements in Lithuanian culture and arts. It is traditionally awarded on February 16, commemorating...
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  • The Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts (Lithuanian: Nacionalinė kultūros ir meno premija), established in 1989, is an award granted for achievements...
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  • mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them...
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    Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, at least 214 have been Jews...
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    This is a list of Lithuanians, both people of Lithuanian descent and people with the birthplace or citizenship of Lithuania. In a case when a person was...
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    as a scene for arts and culture. Together with King Harald, the queen has for decades attempted to establish a palace museum in Oslo. The Queen is a keen...
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  • rabbi Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Nobel Prize (2002) (Lithuanian parents) Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism Shlomo Kleit, political...
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    Steinberg), was from an Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jewish family (from Kaunas, present-day Lithuania), and his father, Arthur Schama, was of Sephardi Jewish background...
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    Environmental History - Award Recipients". aseh.org. Retrieved 2020-11-12. The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. THE 6th ANNUAL COMPETITION...
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    The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians. Throughout...
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    The Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science is an award given annually by the Baltic Assembly for achievements in three categories:...
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    Heritage Minutes List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients List of companions of the Order of Canada "Inductees: Nominations". Canada's Walk of Fame. Retrieved...
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  • from Jack Lang, then French Minister of Culture and current President of the Prize. The European Parliament and the European Council have supported it as...
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    writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only...
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    Subdivision of culture – shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group. One of the arts – imaginative...
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    Grażyna Bacewicz (category Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland)
    composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first...
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    adaptation of Calderón de la Barca's Hair of Absalom." "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original...
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  • Aleksa (surname) (category Lithuanian-language surnames)
    Lithuanian communist politician; birth surname Aleksa Jonas Dainius Aleksa [lt], Lithuanian musician, a recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for...
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  • August 2019. Office of the Prime Minister of Malta, List of Recipients Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine of the National Order of Merit Sovereign...
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  • congratulated the three recipients of the prize. The 2008 prize was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for their work on green...
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    Jews or of Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2014. Of whom,...
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    Artūras Zuokas (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
    1968) is a Lithuanian journalist, businessman and politician who served as the mayor of the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, from 2000 to 2007 and again from...
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    Maya Plisetskaya (category Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis)
    was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship...
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    Andrei Konchalovsky (category Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia)
    and contemporary Russian cinema. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of...
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    Andrzej Wajda (category Herder Prize recipients)
    2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards...
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    Jonas Mekas (category Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art)
    (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather...
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    Czesław Miłosz (category United States National Medal of Arts recipients)
    in 2011, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed that Miłosz's works "unite the Lithuanian and Polish people and reveal how close and how fruitful...
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    Dipesh Chakrabarty (category Australian National University alumni)
    University of Chicago, and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, named after Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant...
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  • Bronius Kutavičius (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
    2021) was a Lithuanian composer and academic composition teacher. He wrote numerous oratorios and operas, often inspired by ancient Lithuanian polytheistic...
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  • M. M. De Voe (category Columbia University School of the Arts alumni)
    born in Lithuania and live in Texas. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. De Voe received her Master of Fine Arts from the Creative...
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