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No Medals. No Medals is a play by the British writer Esther McCracken first staged in 1944. Its West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 740 performances between 4 October 1944 and 19 July 1946. It depicts the struggles of a middle-class British housewife during the war years.
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A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a...
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Diese Tabelle zeigt den Medaillenspiegel der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020 in Tokio, die vom 23. Juli bis 8. August 2021 stattfanden. Die Platzierungen sind nach der Anzahl der gewonnenen Goldmedaillen sortiert, gefolgt von der Anzahl der Silber- und Bronzemedaillen. Weisen zwei oder mehr Länder eine identische Medaillenbilanz auf ...
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games ...
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- Military Medals and Decorations
- Table Medals and Other Large Forms
- Fraternal Jewels
- Different Metals
- Medals as Art
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Numismatistsdivide medals into at least seven classes: 1. 1.1. Awards: awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, cultural, academic, or various other achievements. Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration. Military decorations are often in sha...
First attested in English in 1578, the word medal is derived from the Middle French médaille, itself from Italian medaglia, and ultimately from the post-classical Latin medalia, meaning a coin worth half a denarius. The word medallion (first attested in English in 1658) has the same ultimate derivation, but this time through the Italian medaglione,...
Traditionally medals are stamped with dies on a durable metal flan or planchet, or cast from a mould. The imagery, which usually includes lettering, is typically in low relief, albeit often higher than on coins: Limited-edition medals may be struck in repeated impacts allowing more metal displacement than in coins produced for mass circulation in a...
The first known instance of a medal being awarded comes from the historian Josephus who, writing long after the event, accounts that in the second century BCE, the High Priest Jonathan led the Hebrews in aid of Alexander Balas, and that in return for this, Alexander "...sent to Jonathan... honorary awards, as a golden button, which it is custom to ...
Military decorations, service awards, and medals are often mistakenly confused with one another. Decoration is a term for awards which require specific acts of heroism or achievement (such as the British Victoria Cross or American Silver Star), whereas a service award or campaign medalis awarded for serving in a particular capacity in a particular ...
Medallion is a vague term, often used for larger, usually circular, medals, which might be worn as pendants round the neck. It is the correct term for such medals from the late Roman Empire, typically distributed by the emperor and bearing his image, but in later periods larger medals are best termed just as medals. Generally circular, table medals...
Amongst the many fraternal organisations which wear ceremonial regalia, the use of medals is commonplace. In many prominent fraternal organisations, fraternal medals are known as jewels. Their purpose varies, and may include use as a badge of membership, an indication of rank, a symbol of office within the fraternity, or an indication of support ha...
Traditionally, medals are made of the following metals, in order of decreasing value[citation needed]: 1. Platinum 2. Gold 3. Silver, or silver-gilt, which is in fact used for Olympic "gold medals" 4. Bronze 5. Pewter 6. Copper 7. Tin 8. Iron Many medals were and are made in several different metals, either representing awards for different places ...
The first well-known great artist to create medals was the Italian painter Antonio Pisano, also known as Pisanello, who modelled and cast a number of portrait medals of princes and scholars in the 1440s. Many other artists followed his example, in places such as Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, and France. In the seventeenth century medals were e...
World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2020 Summer Olympics. Legend: represents countries that won at least one gold medal. represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals. represents countries that won at least one bronze medal but no gold or silver medals.
RankNocGoldSilver13941238323271442220t. e. An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal to be won: gold, silver, and bronze, awarded to first, second, and third place, respectively. The granting of awards is laid out in detail in the Olympic protocols.
Jesse Darling: No Medals No Ribbons. This major solo exhibition by Jesse Darling (b. Oxford, lives and works in Berlin) showcases influential works by the artist from the last ten years, arranging new and existing work into themes for the first time. Through installation, drawing, text, and sculpture, Darling works to expose how the systems of ...
