The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.

We know about his buildings in honor of St Felix from literary and archaeological evidence, especially from his long letter to Sulpicius Severus describing the arrangement of the building and its decoration.

The bride and groom wear red or with red decoration, which is associated with courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, happiness, and passion in Chinese culture.

The Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is a state decoration established in 1990 and named in honor of Masaryk.

After Scott retired in October 1861, the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, adopted the idea of a decoration to recognize and honor distinguished naval service.

A military decoration is an award, usually a medal of some sort, given to an individual as a distinctively designed mark of honor denoting heroism, or meritorious or outstanding service or achievement.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower called the decoration a symbol of "... deserved honor and distinction.

The National Order of Vietnam was a combined military-civilian decoration of South Vietnam and was considered the highest honor that could be bestowed upon an individual by the Republic of Vietnam government.

* Stern zum Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross-Germany's ultimate military decoration, a unique honor for the greatest commander in a war.

After the war, the United Kingdom awarded her the George Medal, a very senior decoration, and the United States awarded her the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the U. S. In Toulouse, the Lycée professionnel Marie Louise Dissard Françoise was named in her honor.

In honor of Lieutenant William C. Fitzgerald's loyal and selfless dedication to his people, he was posthumously awarded the U. S. Navy's second-highest decoration for valor, the Navy Cross.

The decoration will be presented by A. Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony at 30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the plant, which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

In the same year in which the British Association held its first meeting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the Royal Guelphic Order.

In the same year she surveyed the popular arts in her influential book, The Unsophisticated Arts, which included taxidermy, fairgrounds, canal boats, seaside, riverside, tattooing, the decoration of food, waxworks, toys, rustic work, shops, festivals and funerals.

This fruit basket is a decoration for the new year.

* Mona de Pasqua is a pastry richly couvered with almonds, yolk jam, chocolate eggs ( or currently big chocolate sculptures ) and coloured decoration that the godfather and godmother give as a present, every year, to their godchildren in Easter ( Pasqua ).

For example, an Iron Cross from World War I bears the year " 1914 ", while the same decoration from World War II is annotated " 1939 ".

An inscription shows that Titus in the year after the earthquake of 79 AD restored the horologium ( clock ) of the town and its architectural decoration.

The same year Mantegna was called, together with Nicolò Pizolo, to work with a large group of painters entrusted with the decoration of the Ovetari Chapel in the transept of the church of the Eremitani.

For these services to Russia he received in 1814 the decoration of the order of St. Anne ; and the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Brand aptly notes that this evidence calls into question the idea of a 15 Year reign for Seti I and suggests that " Seti died after a ten to eleven year reign " because only two years would have passed between the opening of the Rock Quarries and the partial completion and decoration of these monuments.

When Hideyoshi was building his lavish residence at Fushimi the following year, he remarked that he wished its construction and decoration to be pleasing to Rikyū.

The following year, a smithy was established on the ground floor of the North Tower for manufacture of the wrought-iron interior decoration of the castle.

This included subsidizing a third of Gabon's budget, extending low-interest trade loans, paying the salaries of 170 French advisers and 350 French teachers and paying scholarships for most of the roughly 800 Gabonese who study in France every year ... ccording to Le Canard enchaîné, a French opposition weekly, US $ 2. 6 million of this aid also went for the interior decoration of a DC-8 jet belonging to President Bongo.

" Deep " or " full " mourning required the woman to wear plain black clothing with absolutely no decoration for the first year and a day of mourning.

It is issued as a permanent decoration and is to be worn for the remainder of an individual's military career, provided that a service member served at least one year ( two years for Reserve personnel not on active duty ) in or in support of OSD.

He was rewarded with his first French retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the following year and had more commissions from fashion and decoration magazines flooding in for the rest of his life.

In the year 1600, Albani moved to Rome to work in the fresco decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, being completed by the studio of Annibale Carracci.

He was a student at Harvard when he was drafted in 1943, and in the same year, as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps in Chengdu, China, he received the Bronze Star decoration for breaking the Soviet weather code.

The architectural design and the themes of interior decoration vary from year to year.

The Cæremoniale Episcoporum prescribed that in cathedral and collegiate churches the sacristan should be a priest, and describes his duties in regard to the sacristy, the Blessed Eucharist, the baptismal font, the holy oils, the sacred relics, the decoration of the church for the different seasons and feasts, the preparation of what is necessary for the various ceremonies, the pregustation in pontifical Mass, the ringing of the church bells, the preservation of order in the church, and the distribution of Masses ; and finally it suggests that one or two canons be appointed each year to supervise the work of the sacristan and his assistants.

During this year Stickley's furniture evolved from solid, monumental forms to lighter shapes, relieved by arches, tapering legs, and — in an new experimental line — inlay as decoration.

We can determine the year of the decoration by an inscription that existed on the outside walls of the western monastery wing, which was burned in 1902.

Dragon head palace decoration from the Ly dynasty

* June 28, 2012: In the case of United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005's criminalization of the making of false claims of having been awarded a military medal, decoration, or badge was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.

* Order of St. Sava, Serbian Orthodox Church's highest decoration, on 12 May 2012.

In 2012 it was discovered that an authentic 12th century cloister had been used as a pool decoration in one of Curt Engelhorn's spanish estates, hidden from the public and the Spanish conservation authorities for more than half a century.

The problem of efficient production in textiles is complicated by the fact that the industry serves large markets which shift quickly with changes of fashion in apparel or home decoration.

experiment with defects for decoration techniques of glazes and colors ).

The vases which resulted had different shapes, far more complex decoration, and a larger sense of style.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Before losing itself in the sands of the 19th Century, the grand stream of Italian Renaissance architectural decoration made a last appearance in the Brumidi frescos of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

Ware in the southern portion of the region, particularly after 1150 CE, is characterized by heavier black-line decoration and the use of carbon-based colorants.

Changes in pottery composition, structure and decoration are signals of social change in the archaeological record.

This style, primarily used in interior decoration, came to be called Rococo.

In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation ; in fact, this is a floral decoration.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

It is safer to judge him by the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, in which he must almost certainly have taken a share under the direction of Phidias.

Allori was one of the artists, working under Vasari, included in the decoration of the Studiola of Francesco I.

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

Dürer's work on the book was halted for an unknown reason, and the decoration was continued by artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Baldung.

In 1598 Carracci joined his brother Annibale in Rome, to collaborate on the decoration of the Gallery in Palazzo Farnese.

In 1600 he was called to Parma by Duke Ranuccio I Farnese to began the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished.

Familiarity with the sea is proved by the free use of marine motifs in decoration.

* Structural Decoration ; Architectural features, such as columns, friezes and various mouldings ; mural decoration, such as fresco-paintings, coloured reliefs and mosaic inlay.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

It was recognized that the character of both the fabric and the decoration of the Mycenaean objects was not that of any well-known art.

Sicily, ever since P. Orsi excavated the Sicel cemetery near Lentini in 1877, has proved a mine of early remains, among which appear in regular succession Aegean fabrics and motives of decoration from the period of the second stratum at Hissarlik.