The Silver Star is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States not justifying one of the two higher ranking valor decorations – the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, and the Air Force Cross awards for extraordinary heroism or the Medal of Honor, the highest ranking military award, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.

However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.

John Clark has been awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star with an oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star with Valor devices with 3 oak leaf clusters, three Purple Hearts and four Intelligence Stars.

* September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway's first A4 Class locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey from London Kings Cross.

In the fighting on the Western Front during World War I, he rose to the rank of brigadier general, was again nominated for a Medal of Honor, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times.

Category: Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit ( Poland )

The various parties then lay their wreaths at the base of the memorial ; one wreath is set by the Silver Cross Mother, a recent recipient of the Memorial Cross, on behalf of all mothers whose children died in conflicts in which Canada participated.

He was honored by several countries, receiving the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the French Légion d ' honneur and the Silver Star.

A veteran of the Korean War and Vietnam War, Haig was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.

The county is divided into twenty-three townships: Capital, Clayton, Cross Plains, Fair, Foster, German, Grandview, Kassel, Kaylor, Kuim, Liberty, Mittown, Molan, Oak Hollow, Pleasant, Sharon, Silver Lake, Starr, Susquehanna, Sweet, Valley, Wittenberg, Wolf Creek.

The main attractions in Joliet's City Center are the Harrah's Casino and Hotel, Joliet Slammers baseball ( Silver Cross Field ), Hollywood Casino ( formerly, Empress Casino ) and the Rialto Square Theatre, the ' Jewel of Joliet ', which has been called one of the world's 10 most beautiful theaters.

However this part of the route was not constructed when Sir Horace Cutler won a Conservative majority on the GLC and the line was terminated at Charing Cross and renamed as the Jubilee Line to commemorate Queen's Silver Jubilee of 1977.

The town was the home of Silver Cross, a pram manufacturer, whose factory was operational from 1936 to 2002.

During his Army career, Marshall received the Silver Star during World War I, and the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters from the three command and staff positions that he held in World War II.

Gresley introduced the Class A4 locomotives in 1935 to haul a new streamlined train called the Silver Jubilee to run between London King's Cross and Newcastle.

He also received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ( posthumous ), the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, 3 Air Medals, 13 Strike / Flight Air Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal with " V " Device, the Navy Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star.

He is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of from May 1944 to October 1945.

* " Silver Cross " of the Russian Biographical Institute ( 1999 )

In Milan in 3 November 1918 he met Ernest Hemingway, who had been wounded at the Italian front and decorated with the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery while serving with the Red Cross.

* The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Mother, wove the stars and their light, known as " the Silver River " ( what Westerners call " The Milky Way Galaxy "), for heaven and earth.

* Jethro Tull's song " Mother Goose " ( on the Aqualung album ) references the title character as well as four and twenty laborers, concluding with the line, " and I don't believe they knew that I was Long John Silver.

He won the Silver Goblets & Nickalls ' Challenge Cup for coxless pairs seven times ( twice with Andy Holmes, once with Simon Berrisford and four times with Matthew Pinsent ), the Stewards ' Challenge Cup for coxless fours five times, the Diamond Challenge Sculls twice, the Double Sculls Challenge Cup once ( with Eric Sims ) and the Queen Mother Challenge Cup for quadruple sculls once.

When I'm Sixty-Four and Honey Pie are two fine examples, as are Your Mother Should Know and Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

* The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Queen Mother and Jade Emperor, wove the stars and their light, known as " the Silver River " ( what Westerners call " The Milky Way Galaxy "), for heaven and earth.

The Celestial Queen Mother was jealous and separated the lovers, but the Goddess Weaver stopped weaving the Silver River, which threatened heaven and earth with darkness.

In the Darkseid Vs. Galactus crossover, Silver Surfer was able to delay the Racer when it came to claim Orion, giving Orion's Mother Box time to heal his injuries.

During the Marvel / DC crossover Darkseid / Galactus: The Hunger, when Orion is badly injured in a fight with the Silver Surfer – during a period when the Surfer still served as Galactus's Herald – the Black Racer briefly comes to claim Orion, but the Surfer, his original memories briefly restored by Desaad as part of a plan to stop Galactus, confronts the Racer in recognition of Orion's nobility, giving Orion's Mother Box enough time to heal the rest of his injuries.

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

Dyer's mother, Agatha Dyer, was chosen as the Silver Cross Mother for Remembrance Day ceremonies held in Ottawa in 2004.

Smith's mother, Charlotte Lynn Smith, was named the Silver Cross Mother in 2003 by the Royal Canadian Legion.

* Carol Isfield, recipient of the Memorial Cross and Silver Cross Mother in 2000

Analog Brothers is an experimental hip-hop crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice-T ( keyboards, drums, vocals ), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith ( bass, strings, vocals ), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live ( drums, violyns and vocals ), Silver Synth also known as Black Silver ( synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals ), and Rex Roland also known as Pimp Rex ( keyboards, vocals, production ).

A third option is to have the players portray Corwin's children, in an Amber-like city built around Corwin's pattern ; this is sometimes called an " Argent " game, since one of Corwin's heraldic colours is Silver.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

From here is it a short walk to the Silver Sands, Aberdour's busiest and most popular beach.

Silver Sands is becoming more popular with open water swimmers, who swim daily in the sea, both as a leisure pursuit, and as training for open water competition.

The Silver Age of comic books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the dormant superhero form — the debut of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino's Flash in Showcase No. 4 ( September / October 1956 ).

* John Silver in Disney's Treasure Planet is an alien cyborg.

This character is based on Long John Silver from the book Treasure Island.

* Powell is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America.

The Eisenhower Golf Club at the United States Air Force Academy, a 36-hole facility featuring the Blue and Silver courses, which is ranked No. 1 among DoD courses, is named in his honor.

Baresi is one of six players to have won all three types of World Cup Medals, having won Gold in 1982, Bronze in 1990, and Silver in 1994.

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

Silver Lake, west of Conesus Lake, would seem to qualify because it is in the Great Lakes watershed, but Waneta and Lamoka lakes are part of the Susquehanna River watershed as they drain into a tributary of the Chemung River.

In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.

One example is the 20 euro Baroque Silver coin issued on September 11, 2002.

Appropriate expression of imprinted genes is important for normal development, with numerous genetic diseases associated with imprinting defects including Beckwith – Wiedemann syndrome, Silver – Russell syndrome, Angelman syndrome and Prader – Willi syndrome.

* Iron Duke is the name of a supervillain character in the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game, based in part on Isambard Kingdom Brunel

In the Silver to Bronze Age stories as well as in the " Green, Green Glow of Home " episode of Lois & Clark New adventures of Superman Kryptonite is a stable transuranic element ( element 126 ) that finally decays to iron.

It is surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, and also borders the Symkaria ( home of Silver Sable ) to the south.