Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Especially considering the prize champions 'odd titles' and "not" 'odd books' (see the Man Booker for the latter)". The winner was originally voted for by a panel of judges, but since 2000 the winner has been voted for by members of the public via the Internet. Bent resisted this move and threatened to resign, but he later reconsidered and now creates the short list of finalists. Also, the title of the book must be in English, although the language in the book can be any language. In September 2008, a book about the Diagram Prize was published by Aurum Press
Edward W. B. Newby Company H of the First Cavalry Regiment, the first in the U. S. Army. As such he served on the plains in Kansas and in New Mexico Territory. Newby served in 1856, on duty to keep order in Kansas Territory during the troubles in Bloody Kansas. He served in the 1857 Cheyenne Expedition and the Battle of Solomon Forks. He later served in the Kiowa and Comanche Campaign of 1860. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Newby was transferred to the U. S. Fourth Cavalry Regiment, on August 3, 1861. On July 17, 1862 he was promoted major,