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Here are the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlisted Books

Here are the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlisted Books

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlists The 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction are out! You might not be surprised to see James by Percival Everett, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Swift River by Essie Chambers, or Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange on the fiction list. The nonfiction list includes There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib, Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle, and it’s cool to see a graphic memoir here–Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls. My list of Big Books of the Year is certainly clarifying as we approach the end of awards season and enter Best Books season. You can find the full longlists here, and the six-title shortlist …

Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Vampire Who Bites Medals

Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Vampire Who Bites Medals

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David Ramos / Getty Gold-medalist Mauricio Valencia of Team Colombia poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the men’s shot put F34 final on day 10 of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. Valencia had his canine teeth modified to look like fangs in order to break down any stereotypes people may have about Paralympic athletes. He says, “I didn’t want to have the same smile as the rest of the world. I’ve always said that Paralympic sport has to be a spectacle.” Previously: September 6: A Show of Camaraderie September 5: Double Gold September 4: Winding Up a Powerful Throw September 3: A Dodge and Parry September 2: Tears of Gold Source link

The lesser known royal who has more military medals than King Charles and Prince Harry | Royal | News

The lesser known royal who has more military medals than King Charles and Prince Harry | Royal | News

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King Charles and Princess Anne during the procession of the Queen’s coffin in Edinburgh (Image: Getty) Landmark royal events are dripping with pomp and pageantry; the Firm are decked out in military regalia, dazzling adoring fans around the world. However, many are left wondering what the military garb denotes, especially when it comes to the gleaming medals on each royal’s chest. Each member of the Royal Family is permitted to wear different medals depending on their military history, the honours they’ve received or for coronations and jubilees. You may think the more senior a royal is, the more medals they’ll don. But that’s not quite right. For example, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, has 14 medals to wear, whereas the King has fewer. Express.co.uk breaks down what each member of the family will wear on their chests at major events and displays so you can wow your nearest and dearest with your obscure royal knowledge. READ MORE Mary dazzles in new portraits as she debuts crown jewels Stay up-to-date with the latest Royal news Join …

Prince Harry wears his medals for special reason after missing out on royal honour

Prince Harry wears his medals for special reason after missing out on royal honour

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The Duke of Sussex proudly donned his medals as he delivered a passionate video message from his Montecito home for the Military Times Service Members of The Year Awards. Prince Harry, 39, dressed in a suit, donned his Afghanistan Operational Service Medal to mark his military service, as well as the Golden, Diamond and Platinum Jubilee medals, as he presented Sergeant First Class Elizabeth Marks with the Soldier of the Year Award. The father-of-two, who completed two tours of Afghanistan in his ten-year military career, paid tribute to Sergeant Marks, calling her a “friend” and calling her a “beacon of inspiration”. Sergeant Marks joined the US Army at the age of 17 in 2008 but suffered bilateral hip injuries while deployed in Iraq two years later. Now she is a four-time Invictus Games gold medalist and a five-time Paralympic medalist, having taken up swimming as a way to complete additional physical therapy and cardio in 2012. Harry said in his video message, which was played at the awards ceremony in Washington DC: “I first met …

China’s Swimmers Tested Positive. What Happens to Their Medals?

China’s Swimmers Tested Positive. What Happens to Their Medals?

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Whenever a suspicion of doping arises in an Olympics, attention can shift quickly from the athletes who won gold, silver and bronze medals to the ones who missed out. On Saturday, The New York Times published an investigation into an unreported case in which 23 top Chinese swimmers tested positive for a powerful banned drug in 2021, only months before the Tokyo Olympics. The swimmers — who made up about half of the Chinese swimming team at those Games — were cleared by China’s antidoping authorities and the World Anti-Doping Agency and allowed to compete. The episode has not only alarmed experts in the antidoping community, but also raised other questions about athletes who tested positive, and what comes next: Which athletes? Which races? And what about the medals they won in them? For now, the answer — both for the Chinese athletes and the dozens of swimmers who finished behind them, on and off the medals stand — is that nothing has changed. By comparing the names of the 23 swimmers who tested positive …

How the Wait for Olympic Medals Became an Endurance Sport

How the Wait for Olympic Medals Became an Endurance Sport

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It took Lashinda Demus of the United States 52.77 seconds to run the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the 2012 London Olympics. It took more than a decade for her to be upgraded to first place from second. A year after that decision, and 12 years after the race, she is still waiting to receive her gold medal. One of her American teammates, Erik Kynard Jr., competed in the high jump at the London Games. Like Demus, he was beaten by a Russian athlete later found guilty of doping. And like Demus, he had to wait many years before being named the victor. He, too, has never touched his gold medal. Demus and Kynard are expected to finally receive their medals this summer during the Paris Olympics, according to officials at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. The details are still being ironed out; officials hope a resolution could come soon. But for nine American figure skaters who in January were elevated to first place in the team competition nearly …

Precious medals, Bruce’s albums and a snapping turtle – take the Thursday quiz | Life and style

Precious medals, Bruce’s albums and a snapping turtle – take the Thursday quiz | Life and style

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What better way to shake off the mid-February blues than the regular shifty collection of vaguely topical, wilfully obscure and downright silly questions from the Thursday quiz? There are no prizes, it really is just for fun, but we still love to hear how you’ve got on in the comments. The Thursday quiz, No 147 1.The Body Shop has collapsed into administration in the UK. It was founded by Anita Roddick when? Reveal 2.Who will be the next president of Finland after winning an election runoff? Reveal 3.Organisers have announced that Paris Olympic and Paralympic medals will contain chunks of what? Reveal 4.El Centro in southern California experienced how many earthquakes in a 25-minute period this week? Reveal 5.For some inexplicable reason Netflix made a TV drama about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight in 2019. Who is playing Maitlis? Reveal 6.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz, resting soundly in the knowledge that sniffer dogs at Boston airport sniffed out what? Reveal 7.Fluffy (not pictured), …

Paris Olympic medals feature pieces of the Eiffel Tower

Paris Olympic medals feature pieces of the Eiffel Tower

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The medals awarded at this year’s Paris Olympics and Paralympics will feature a hexagon-shaped piece of iron taken from the original Eiffel Tower in their centre, organisers said as they unveiled the design on Thursday.  Issued on: 08/02/2024 – 16:21Modified: 08/02/2024 – 16:40 3 min All 5,084 gold, silver and bronze medals for the Paris Games will feature the six-edged metal medallion which will be set like a gemstone in the design by elite French jewellery house Chaumet. “We wanted to offer to all medal winners at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics a piece of the Eiffel Tower from 1889,” said the head of the local organising committee, Tony Estanguet, at a televised ceremony. They will be “a combination of the most precious metals from the medals — gold, silver and bronze — with the most precious metal in our country, from this treasure that is the Eiffel Tower,” he explained. The design by Chaumet, whose creations have adorned aristocrats and the affluent since 1780, also features a circular arrangement of ridges intended to catch …

Paris Olympic Medals Will Have Eiffel Tower Fragment

Paris Olympic Medals Will Have Eiffel Tower Fragment

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Athletes who win medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris won’t just win gold, silver or bronze. Their medals will also include a piece of iron — wrought-iron, to be exact, from the Eiffel Tower itself. Organizers of the Games said Thursday that each of the 5,084 medals created for the Paris events will be decorated on one side with a hexagon-shaped piece of iron recovered from the French capital’s iconic landmark. “This exceptional object had to meet another very strong symbol of our country and our capital,” Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, said at an event to unveil the medals’ design in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris where several Olympic events will be held. Mr. Estanguet said the iron used in the medals will be recycled fragments from the Eiffel Tower’s original 1889 construction that had been sitting unused in a warehouse after renovation work. Stripped of their brown paint and polished, each fragment will weigh 18 grams, or just over half an ounce, and …