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    The Jeannette Medal is a Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 1890, to officers and crew of the Jeannette expedition. Eight gold and twenty-five silver...
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    are the Cardenas Medal for Frank H. Newcomb, the Jarvis Medal for David H. Jarvis, the Jeannette Medal for the men of the Jeannette expedition, the Byrd...
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  • 2014-03-23. Julian, R.W. "Jeannette Medal Honors Arctic Seamen". Numismaster.com. Retrieved 30 August 2015. "Medals for the Jeannette Expedition". The Army...
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    William F. C. Nindemann (category Jeannette expedition)
    American Arctic explorer and recipient of the Congressional Silver Jeannette Medal. William Nindemann was born on April 22, 1850, in Gingst, on Rügen...
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    Jeannette is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Jeannette was founded in 1888. The city got its name from one of the original...
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    The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by...
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    The United States Congress awarded Melville the Congressional Gold Jeannette Medal for his gallantry and resourcefulness. He published a book in 1884...
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    George W. De Long (category Jeannette expedition)
    1881) was a United States Navy officer and explorer who led the ill-fated Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, in search of the Open Polar Sea. In 1879, backed...
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    Jeannette Guyot (26 February 1919 – 10 April 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated...
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    Décorations, AECOPSD, retrieved 2020-01-28 "Report on the F. A. P. Barnard Medal". Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences: 67. 1908. Retrieved 28 October...
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    Jeannette Rosita Young AC PSM (born 1963) is an Australian medical doctor and administrator who is currently Governor of Queensland, since 1 November...
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    Charles W. Chipp (category Jeannette expedition)
    San Francisco to serve as executive officer of USS Jeannette, with De Long commanding. Jeannette was fitting out for her mission, which would be to attempt...
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    John W. Danenhower (category Jeannette expedition)
    a United States Navy officer best known for his participation in the Jeannette expedition. Born in Chicago, Danenhower attended local public schools...
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    film-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers. MacDonald was born Jeannette Anna McDonald on June 18, 1903, at her family's Philadelphia home at 5123...
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    medals be struck in commemoration of the Jeannette Expedition. 8 gold and 25 silver medals were struck. In 1900, Congress directed that a gold medal be...
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    Jeannette Eleanor Wirz CBE (née Altwegg; 8 September 1930 – 18 June 2021) was a British figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. She was the 1952...
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  • 1996–97 season, Jeannette began appearing on the ISU Champions Series (later known as the Grand Prix series). He won one Grand Prix medal – silver at the...
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    William A. Shomo (category People from Jeannette, Pennsylvania)
    the P-51 Mustang, for which he received the Medal of Honor. Shomo was born on May 30, 1918, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, to George Washington Shomo and...
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    Jeannette Morven Campbell (8 March 1916 – 15 January 2003) was a naturalized Argentine swimmer who won the silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She...
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  • Jeannette Corbiere Lavell CM (born June 21, 1942) is a Canadian and Anishinaabe community worker who focused on women's and children's rights. In 2018...
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  • Jeannette Marianne Lewin (born 27 February 1972 in Vianen, South Holland) is a former field hockey midfield player from the Netherlands, who played a...
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    Jeannette Josephina Maria "Netti" Witziers-Timmer (née Timmer, 22 July 1923 – 25 January 2005) was a Dutch sprinter. In 1944 she was a member of the Dutch...
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    Fleet, and Master Sergeant Llewellyn Chilson were three-time recipients. Jeannette Guyot and Virginia Hall were the only two women to receive the award....
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    Moir are the only figure skaters to win five Olympic medals (three gold medals and two silver medals). Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström and Russian...
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    Katherine Johnson (category Congressional Gold Medal recipients)
    time. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award by NASA...
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  • races. These were the first-ever Dutch medals at the Winter Olympics. Great Britain's lone medal was won by Jeannette Altwegg, who became only the second...
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    name to Think Mutual Bank. IBM and the Holocaust IBM and World War II Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Thomas J. Watson Research...
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    used by the Ambani family for their long-distance travels. L. Nolen, Jeannette. "Mukesh Ambani". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original...
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    Nancy Pelosi (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    Baker Motley Georgia O'Keeffe Annie Oakley Rosa Parks Esther Peterson Jeannette Rankin Ellen Swallow Richards Elaine Roulet Katherine Siva Saubel Gloria...
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  • Jeannette Pennings (born 7 October 1977 in Alphen aan den Rijn) is a Dutch bobsledder and track and field athlete. The high jumper Wilbert Pennings is...
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