medal
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1. medal - Noun
2. medal - Verb
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A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
To honor or reward with a medal.
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2000s In 2000, Day received the Ohio Medal of Honor, that state's highest civilian award.
A bronze medal on display in the British Museum shows Agrippina’s ashes being brought back to Rome by Caligula.
Accounts of this award frequently make reference that at the time of the award Wiles was over the age limit for the Fields medal.
A companion picture, Columbus in Chains, procured him the gold medal of the Brussels Art Exhibition, and was subsequently purchased by the Art Union in New York; it was the basis of the 1893 $2 Columbian stamp.
Accidents and incidents main Noted B-17 pilots and crew members Maynard H. Smith receiving Medal of Honor from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson Forrest L. Vosler receiving Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt.
A clause to the archival procedures was revised in mid-2008, where if a veteran, or, if deceased, an immediate member of the family, requested the Purple Heart, on an Army or Air Force record, the medal could still be granted by the National Archives.