Mention Wilkinson prize.

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+      <dt>
+          <strong>2007/07/16: Wilkinson Prize</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          The principal authors of deal.II&mdash;Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf
+         Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
+         href="http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/wilkinson/award/">J. H. Wilkinson
+         Prize for Numerical Software</a> for their creation of and work on
+         the deal.II library. The prize committee particularly noted the
+         reliability and usability of the software and the qualitity of the
+         documentation.
+         <p>
+         We want to take the opportunity to thank our user community for their
+         support over the years that kept us working on this software. We
+         consider this award motivation to continue this work!
+      </dd>
+
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           <strong>2007/02/09: Support for previously unorientable meshes</strong>
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