The reverse of the medal has the inscription " For Distinguished Service " at the top in raised letters, and within the pentagon the inscription " From The Secretary of Defense To ," all in raised letters.

Starting at 2: 00 p. m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, as well as the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and Nigeria's lowered last.

The image on the reverse of a medal varies according to the institution awarding the prize.

The front side of the medal provides the same profile of Alfred Nobel as depicted on the medals for Physics, Chemistry, and Literature ; its reverse side is unique to this medal.

In February 2009 Coin World reported that some 2007 Abigail Adams medals were struck using the reverse from the 2008 Louisa Adams medal, apparently by mistake.

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

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The reverse side of the medal carries the state emblem and motto.

Its use has also been traced through the Egyptians to the ancient Greeks and Romans, representations of Trajan ( arch of Constantine ) and Antoninus Pius ( reverse of a medal ) being found with it.

The competition saw this design used for 40 years until the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich became the first Games with a different design for the reverse side of the medal.

The German Olympic Committee, Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland, were the first Summer Games organisers to elect to change the reverse of the medal.

The reverse, or back surface of the medal, is not always used and may be left blank or may contain a secondary design.

It is not uncommon to find only an artistic rendering on the obverse, while all details and other information for the medal are inscribed on the reverse.

The bracteate is a type of thin gold medal, usually plain on the reverse, found in Northern Europe from the so called " Dark Ages " or Migration Period.

This large bronze table medal features Andrew Carnegie's likeness on the obverse and the name of the awardee and citation engraved on the reverse.

The reverse shows St. George on horseback slaying the dragon on the coast of England, with the legend THE GEORGE MEDAL around the top edge of the medal.

When the Paris Academy of Sciences met for the first time in 1666, a commemorative medal was struck portraying Minerva on its reverse, surrounded by symbols of astronomy, anatomy, and chemistry.

The reverse of the medal bears a bald eagle facing left.

If the medal was formed ( or embossed ), the surface on the back would be the reverse image of the front.

The badge Order of the White Eagle was originally a red enamel oval gold medal with an image of the Polish white eagle on its front side and bearing Augustus II's royal cypher over crossed swords on its reverse side worn on a light blue ribbon.

The reverse of the medal depicts a trident surrounded by a laurel wreath.

The reverse of the medal has the inscription, " For Combat Readiness -- Air Force " in a circle, near the outer edge of the medal.

Alcaeus " A probably authentic Lesbian coin has been preserved, bearing upon the obverse ... a profile head of Alcaeus, and upon the reverse ... a profile head of Pittacus.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of £ 100 notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The reverse has the inscription and a space for the name of the recipient to be engraved.

In this case, " over centre " refers to the ratchet being stable and " locked " in a given position until clicked forward again ; it has nothing to do with the ratchet being unable to turn in the reverse direction.

" Speaker Martin concluded that Eisenhower worked too much through subordinates in dealing with Congress, with results, " often the reverse of what he has desired " because Members of Congress ," resent having some young fellow who was picked up by the White House without ever having been elected to office himself coming around and telling them ' The Chief wants this '.

The difference between the avalanche diode ( which has a reverse breakdown above about 6. 2 V ) and the Zener is that the channel length of the former exceeds the mean free path of the electrons, so there are collisions between them on the way out.

After a forward current has been passing in an SRD and the current is interrupted or reversed, the reverse conduction will cease very abruptly ( as in a step waveform ).

From the Shockley ideal diode equation given above, it might appear that the voltage has a positive temperature coefficient ( at a constant current ), but usually the variation of the reverse saturation current term is more significant than the variation in the thermal voltage term.

Ric Charlesworth, the current Australian coach, has been a strong critic of the unrestricted use of the reverse edge hit.

On the reverse of the stone is another image parallel to it that has been described as Christ triumphing over Satan.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

It has later been used as an error message elsewhere, such as Varnish ( software ), a reverse proxy and HTTP accelerator.

When a person has not been unconscious, failure of carbohydrate to reverse the symptoms in 10 – 15 minutes increases the likelihood that hypoglycemia was not the cause of the symptoms.

This pathway has been termed reverse cholesterol transport and is considered as the classical protective function of HDL toward atherosclerosis.

However, Guarducci also states that in 1950 an ancient image of Mary at the Church of Santa Francesca Romana was determined to be a very exact, but reverse mirror image of the original circular icon that was made in the 5th century and brought to Rome, where it has remained until the present.

A reverse merger occurs when a privately held company ( often one that has strong prospects and is eager to raise financing ) buys a publicly listed shell company, usually one with no business and limited assets.

The term " naturalistic fallacy " is also sometimes used to describe the deduction of an " ought " from an " is " ( the Is – ought problem ), and has inspired the use of mutually reinforcing terminology which describes the converse ( deducing an " is " from an " ought ") either as the " reverse naturalistic fallacy " or as the moralistic fallacy.

In the case of Forrest Gump, the screenplay by Eric Roth had more proverbs than the novel by Winston Groom, but for The Harder They Come, the reverse is true, where the novel derived from the movie by Michael Thelwell has many more proverbs than the movie.

However, the HIV-encoded reverse transcriptase has own ribonuclease activity that degrades the viral RNA during the synthesis of cDNA, as well as DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity that copies the sense cDNA strand into an antisense DNA to form a double-stranded DNA intermediate.

The reverse primer has to be the reverse complement of the given cDNA sequence.

The unique features of the platypus make it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia ; it has appeared as a mascot at national events and is featured on the reverse of the Australian 20 cent coin.

The language syntax uses reverse Polish notation, which makes the order of operations unambiguous, but reading a program requires some practice, because one has to keep the layout of the stack in mind.