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    order. The Médaille militaire is therefore the most senior entirely military active French decoration. During World War I, 230,000 médailles were awarded...
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    collection are among the world's deepest and most comprehensive. The Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte (Great Gold Medal of Exploration...
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  • The Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte (Great Gold Medal of Exploration and Journeys of Discovery) has been awarded since 1829...
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    the Navy Cross, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, and the French Médaille militaire. Daly later fought in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Battle...
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    France, Greece and the Netherlands, the US Legion of Merit and the French Médaille Militaire, are testament to the international recognition of his contribution...
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    arrived back in England on 4 September 1843. He was awarded the Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations in 1843, knighted in 1844, and elected to the Royal...
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  • The Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille is an award by the German Institute for Inventions (Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen [de], D.I.E.) in memory of Rudolf...
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    Award (2015) The Institute of Physics President's Medal (2017) Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences (2018) Special Breakthrough Prize in...
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    (Washington, US) Maundy England Bittersweet Meana Spain Sharp 0.66 0.19 Médaille D'Or France <1850 Bittersweet 0.27 1059 (Somerset, England), 1059 (Washington...
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    Guerre (silver star; France) Médaille d'honneur (France) Médaille des épidémies Médaille secours des blessés militaires Médaille de la reine Élisabeth (Belgium)...
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  • of the Légion d'Honneur and decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. He described his war experiences in the non-fiction My...
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    Bourg-en-Bresse is named after Lalande. This high school was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance in recognition of the wartime conduct of its teachers...
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    mothers of large families. Since then the French government awards the Médaille de la Famille française to mothers of large families. In 1941, by an initiative...
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  • Brooklyn shut down its athletic program, and Division III Medaille closed entirely. The Medaille bowling team was effectively taken over by a nearby D-I...
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    the original (PDF) on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2015. Paul, Franklin (12 October 2007). "Kodak to end Olympics sponsorship after 2008 games"...
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  • French design. Though some stories attribute its invention to Benjamin Franklin, historians trace the rocking chair's origins to North America during the...
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  • discussions et d'échanges à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la monnaie et à la médaille, des origines à nos jours". Archived from the original on 31 December 2017...
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    wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become...
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    is false since the Surcouf's later movements south are well documented. Médaille de la Résistance avec Rosette (Resistance Medal with rosette) - 29 November...
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  • Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the Vernadsky Gold Medal (2003) Grande Médaille (1997), conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, to an international...
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    28 December 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021. "" Casa Negra " remporte la médaille de bronze". aujourdhui.ma. Aujourd'hui le Maroc. 9 November 2009. Retrieved...
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  • cancer. Carl Braaten, 94, American Lutheran theologian and minister. Franklin Cisneros, 39, Salvadoran Olympic judoka (2008). Daniel Eckenspieller, 91...
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    d'amour') 1802: three paintings 1804: at least seven works (winner of a médaille d'or) 1806: three paintings 1808: three paintings 1810: four paintings...
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    Winston Churchill (category Recipients of the Médaille militaire (France))
    for protest. In November 1910, the suffragist Hugh Franklin attacked Churchill with a whip; Franklin was arrested and imprisoned for six weeks. In November...
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    Edinburgh. In 2007 he was awarded the highest award (the Gold Medal or médaille d'or) of the French CNRS. In 2008, he received the Prix du Cercle d'Oc;...
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    apartment and was shocked to find him listening to albums by The Byrds, Aretha Franklin, and Dionne Warwick. He also liked James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone...
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    mathematician. Established in 1914 and eliminated in 1997 in favor of the Grande Médaille France Poncelet Prize French Academy of Sciences Work contributing to the...
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    Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism at Bud Bagsak, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt presenting it in a ceremony timed to coincide with Pershing's...
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    French medal of the China Campaign ("Médaille de la Campagne de Chine"), 1861, in the Musée de la Légion d'Honneur. The Chinese characters inscribed on...
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    Perkins, Franklin (10 July 2007). Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8264-8921-0. Perkins, Franklin (10 July 2007)...
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