Medal of Honor
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Medal of Honor the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life and above and beyond the call of duty in action” during actual armed conflict with an enemy of the United States. Established by act of Congress in December 1861, the Medal of Honor may be awarded to members of any branch of service. Each service (Army, Navy/Marine Corps, and Air Force) has a slightly different pattern for the medal itself, but all share the distinctive light blue ribbon sprinkled with white stars.
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Italy's last prince returns to Quirinal Palace after 57 years
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/16/2003; 379 words
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PR Newswire; 12/23/2003; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/20/1998; ; 589 words
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Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/4/2008; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/24/2008; 677 words
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A tour of Republican Rome.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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La reina María José de Italia.(descanse en paz)(TT: Queen María José of Italy.)(TA: rest in peace)(Artículo Breve)
Magazine article from: Actual; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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EGYPTIAN-ITALIAN SUMMIT IN ROME FOR LAUNCHING STRATEGIC PARTHNERSHIP
Newspaper article from: Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 6/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...Tuesday. President Mubarak and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano will meet at Quirinal Palace, the official residence of the Italian president on the Quirinal Hill, to discuss the latest regional and international developments, on top of...
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Baldini Begins Torch Relay for Turin Games
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/8/2005; ; 579 words
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Pope blesses Olympic flame as Turin torch relay kicks off
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/8/2005; ; 700+ words
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Quirinal
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Italy
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...things Italian. quattrocentism the art of fifteenth-century Italy. — quattrocentist , n., adj. Quirinal the civil government of Italy, as contrasted with the papal government of the Vatican. — Quirinal , adj.
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Melozzo da Forlì
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in Rome. He was employed as architect and painter by several popes. His paintings, chiefly landscapes in the manner of the Carracci, are found in the Borghese and Colonna galleries and the Quirinal, Rome; the Louvre; and in Vienna.
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Malpighi, Marcello
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
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