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    tinnitus for the rest of his life.) For his bravery, he was awarded the médaille militaire in November, and appeared one year later in the weekly l'Illustré...
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  • aéronautiques Decorated with the Médaille de l'Aéronautique in 1950. 1959 : laureate of the Académie des sciences and the Prix Arthur du Faÿ. 1967 : laureate of...
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    and earned the Médaille militaire and a Croix de Guerre for his wartime valor fighting with the Allies in North Africa. Following D-Day, Gabin served with...
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    secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture. She was the goddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and lifelong friend of his daughter, Dame Jean Conan Doyle....
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    May 1852) Grand Officer (28 August 1854) Grand Cross (22 September 1855) Médaille militaire (4 July 1859) Honorary Companion of the Order of the Bath (UK)...
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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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    D., D.Sc. – 1934". Villanova University. Retrieved 5 September 2018. "Médaille du prix Janssen décernée par la Société Astronomique de France à Georges...
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    Commander, 1849; Grand Officer, 1853; Grand Cross, 1855; Grand Master, 1873 Médaille militaire, 1857  United Kingdom: Honorary Grand Cross (military) of the...
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    11 July 1903; Grand Officer – 11 July 1909; Grand Cross – 11 July 1914. Médaille militaire – 26 November 1914. Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with Palm Commemorative...
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    of the French Republic (6 June 1946). "Décret portant concession de la médaille militaire". gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 October 2019. Puchalski 2000,...
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    Brunier was awarded the Legion of Honour while his men were awarded the Médaille Militaire. French victory Battle of Camarón 1863 France Mexico In the Battle...
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    Winston Churchill (category Recipients of the Médaille militaire (France))
    Jenkins 2001, p. 586. Arthur 2015, p. 170. Jenkins 2001, p. 592. Churchill 1967b, p. 243. Jenkins 2001, p. 590. Blake & Louis 1993, pp. 249, 252–255...
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  • Prada [es; fr; it; pt] Douglas Rushkoff John Sharpe Albert Bikaj John C. Médaille Richard Williamson Rerum novarum (1891), papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII...
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    270, available at Internet Archive Sydney Louis Mayer, The biography of General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur (1984), 70, available at Internet Archive...
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    Steve Fossett (category Washington University in St. Louis trustees)
    outstanding aviator and aeronaut", in 1998 and 2002. He received the Grande Médaille of the Aéro-Club de France, and the British Royal Aero Club's Gold Medal...
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    Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Lesley J. McNair, George S. Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. During his command in World War I, Pershing resisted British and French...
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  • and jurist. Gord Wilson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Arthur Burns, 60, British historian, cancer. Joe Christopher, 87, American baseball...
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    Miles Davis (category Music of St. Louis)
    an upper-middle-class family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at Juilliard...
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    Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi ɡzavje fʁɑ̃swa daʁlɑ̃]; 7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French admiral and political...
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    Arts et Lettres (1989). The City of Paris presented him with the Grande Médaille de la Ville Paris (1987), and in 1994 he received the Trophée des Arts...
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  • Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 August 2021. "Arthur Wint". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 August...
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    American Unknown Soldier with decorations, including the Legion of Honour, Médaille Militaire, and Croix de Guerre from France, the War Cross from Czechoslovakia...
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    Press. Cook, Arthur Bernard, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion (3 volume set), (1914–1925). New York, Bibilo & Tannen: 1964. Cook, Arthur Bernard (1914)...
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  • Retrieved 2 November 2020. "DE TOCQUEVILLE MEMOIRS; AMERICA, LOUIS PHILIPPE, AND LOUIS NAPOLEON. SOUVENIRS DE ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. Publies par le Comte...
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  • Army Medal of Honor, the British Distinguished Conduct Medal, and the Médaille militaire, for bravery displayed in Hamel, France. Eddie Rickenbacker,...
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    was officiated by Arthur Stanley and Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor. The baptism, "of a strictly private nature", took place one day after the ceremony...
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  • The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2023. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in...
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Arthur 2014, p. 16. Arthur 2014, p. 13. "Leibniz" entry in Collins English Dictionary. Mangold...
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    friendship in an article published in 1950. In 1937, he was awarded the Grande Médaille at the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Picart Le Doux saw the approach...
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    Honorary Award Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Trophée César & Techniques Médaille d'Or Retired awards Film from the European Union (2002–2004) Poster (1986–1990)...
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