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9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor

The 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor is a decoration of the government of the United States, created specifically to honor the 442 public safety officers who were killed in the line of duty during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the empty wing of The Pentagon.

Andrés Sapelak

Sapelak was born in Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic in a Ukrainian family and ordained a priest on June 29, 1949 from the religious order Salesians of Saint John Bosco.

Caloscypha

Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data shows that within the Pezizales order, Caloscypha fulgens belongs in an evolutionary lineage with the families Helvellaceae, Morchellaceae, and Tuberaceae.

Christian Friele

Firmly believing that orders of merit would compromise his integrity as editor, he twice declined the offer of being rewarded the Order of St. Olav.

Clan of the Gallant Canadians

The Clan of the Gallant Canadians is an unofficial Order created by The Calgary Highlanders of the Canadian Forces and the first such regimental order to be approved by the Canadian sovereign, and the first in the British Empire and Commonwealth since the time of Oliver Cromwell.

Dedekind group

In 1898 George Miller delineated the structure of a Hamiltonian group in terms of its order and that of its subgroups.

Dothiorella ulmi

It was first identified in 1929 on American elm (Ulmus americana) and was thought to belong to the order Sphaeropsidales but was later described as Cephalosporium sp.

Eigenmannia vicentespelaea

The only known troglobitic (exclusively cave-dwelling) member of the order Gymnotiformes, E. vicentespelaea is found in the São Vicente I and São Vicente II caves near São Domingos, in the central Brazilian state of Goiás.

Elephant and mammoth ivory

Elephant and mammoth tusk ivory comes from the two modified upper incisors of extant and extinct members of the order Proboscidea.

Flexiviridae

These have in turn been subsumed under the new order Tymovirales along with the old family Tymoviridae by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses based on molecular phylogenetic systematic analyses of proteins (RNA polymerase and viral coat).

Flightless fruit fly

Flightless fruit flies (Order Diptera) encompasses a variety of different species of fly, such as Drosophila melanogaster, Bactrocera cucurbitae, Bactrocera dorsalis, and Drosophila hydei, with genetic mutations that cause them to be flightless.

Gasteroid fungi

(literally "stomach fungi"), or the equally obsolete order Gasteromycetales Rea, because they produce their spores inside their basidiocarps (fruit bodies) rather than on an outer surface.

Grand Kremlin Palace

Its five reception halls (Georgievsky, Vladimirsky, Aleksandrovsky, Andreyevsky, and Ekaterininsky) are named for orders of the Russian Empire: the Orders of St. George, Vladimir, Alexander, Andrew, and Catherine.

Iniopterygiformes

Iniopterygiformes ("Nape Wing Forms") is an extinct order of chimaera-like cartilaginous fish that lived from the Devonian to Carboniferous periods (345–280 million years ago).

Knight's Cross

Knight's Cross (German language Ritterkreuz) refers to a distinguishing grade or level of various orders that denotes bravery and leadership on the battlefield.

Marduke

Marduke was Shaun's partner in the guard, but when one of their missions, to the Ardennes region of France, meant that they had to save a beautiful woman from the Order, while she saves her family from the plague, and then leave her to die, they fell out.

Michel Alaux

For his contributions to sports education and culture, he was inducted into l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 1962.

Order of St. George

Lt. Col. Lebed is also a recipient of the Soviet Order "For Service To The Homeland In The Armed Forces" 3rd class and of 3 Orders of the Red Star

Pachydermata

Pachydermata (from two Greek words παχύς pachys, "thick" and δερμα derma, "skin", meaning 'thick skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists.

Plasmodium dominicana

The host seems likely to have been a member of the order Galliformes but this cannot be confirmed.

Social animal

A few species, notably insects of the orders Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) and Isoptera (termites) show an extreme form of sociality, involving highly organized societies, with individual organisms specialized for distinct roles.

Vespoidea

The Vespoidea are a superfamily of order Hymenoptera of class Insecta, although older taxonomic schemes may vary in this categorization, particularly in their recognition of a now-obsolete superfamily Scolioidea.

Vibrionaceae

Members of this family also synthesize tetrodotoxin (TTX), an ancient marine alkaloid and powerful neurotoxin (Na+ pump inhibitor, 1 mg can kill an adult) that serves to protect members of an order of fishes, the Tetraodontiformes (tetras-four and odontos-tooth), which include the puffer fish (see fugu, raw puffer fish served in Japan).


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