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    of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ]), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of...
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    The Philippine Legion of Honor (Filipino: Lehiyong Pandangal ng Pilipinas; Spanish: Legión de Honor Filipina) was established by President Manuel Roxas...
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    The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an art museum in San Francisco, California. Located in Lincoln...
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  • Look up Legion of Honor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Legion of Honour is the highest decoration awarded by France. Legion of Honor may also...
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    Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of...
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  • American Legion of Honor was a fraternal benefit order that was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. In its heyday, it was one of the best...
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  • The following is a list of notable foreign members of the Legion of Honor by their country of origin. The Legion of Honor is the highest decoration in...
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    The modern Mexican Legion of Honor (Spanish: Legión de Honor Mexicana) is an order of merit awarded to soldiers, veterans, and others who have made outstanding...
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    Michelle Yeoh (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
    Jacques Chirac conferred upon Yeoh the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor (French: Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur). The decoration was presented to...
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    Marie Schellinck (category French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    Marie-Jeanne Schellinck is often reported to have been decorated with the Legion of Honor in June 1808 by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte himself before he rode into...
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    esteemed Medal of Honor. Zabecki, David T. (April 26, 2010). "Ask MHQ: Any Reason the U.S. Legion of Merit Looks Like the French Legion of Honor?". historynet...
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    The German Legion of Honor was a veterans commemorative award of the Weimar Republic. The award was created in the 1920s under the authority of a "High Council...
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    The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest...
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  • Shelby Westbrook (category Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States))
    2007. Retrieved 17 February 2015. "Five U.S. veterans of WWII to Receive French Legion of Honor". consul-france-Chicago.org. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 17...
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    Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    Palace of the Legion of Honor to the city of San Francisco. She was born Alma Charlotte Corday le Normand de Bretteville in the Sunset District of San Francisco...
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    Adolph B. Spreckels (category People acquitted by reason of insanity)
    California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924. His wife, Alma, was called the "great grandmother of San Francisco"...
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    Rank Order of Lakandula (Orden de Cacique Lacandula) Order of Sikatuna (Orden de Cacique Sicatuna) Philippine Legion of Honor (Legion de Honor Filipina)...
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    October 25, 2010, Georges Borchardt was awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France's highest award. "Georges Borchardt, Inc. Literary...
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  • bombarded indiscriminately. Hundreds reportedly died in the town of Dulag, Leyte. American Legion Magazine, Mar 1945. Saunders, Hilary Adan St George, The Left...
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    The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a Holocaust memorial in San Francisco, California, in Lincoln Park, overlooking the...
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  • Commander (order) (category Orders of chivalry)
    rank of the order. The Ordre national du Mérite, created in 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle, has the same rank structure as the Legion of Honor. The...
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  • The Legion of Honour (French: Légion d'honneur) is the highest decoration in France and is divided into five degrees in ascending order: Chevalier (Knight)...
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  • the Legion of Honor". The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021. "Legion of Honour"...
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    various government offices. It can also be found on the medal of the Philippine Legion of Honor. The heraldic device comes from Manila's colonial arms, where...
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  • 1989, he was one of only two surviving CLC members who were awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1989. Guisheng died at the age of 106, in La Rochelle...
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    Michel Talagrand (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    of Sciences (2004) Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor (2011) Shaw Prize in mathematics (2019) Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of...
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    Architecture, 1752-1753, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Sculpture, 1752-1753, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Music, 1752-1753, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Saint...
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    The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is a patriotic organization of U.S. war veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It comprises...
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    Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, as well as the French Legion of Honor. In 2020, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Hanks...
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    201st Fighter Squadron (category Military units and formations of Mexico in World War II)
    November 22, 2004, the squadron was awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor, with a rank of Legionnaire, by then president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The...
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