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LEGION OF HONOR

Definition: LEGION OF HONOR

LEGION OF HONOR

1. An order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Usage: LEGION OF HONOR

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Specialty Definition: Legion of Honor

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Legion of Honor can refer to: The is a disambiguation page, i.e. one that simply points to other pages within Wikipedia

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Legion of Honor."

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Commercial Usage: LEGION OF HONOR

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  • English ceramics from northern California collections : March 29-June 15, 1980, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (reference)

  • Fire, earth, and water : sculpture from the Land Collection of Mesoamerican Art : [exhibited at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 4, 1975-September 14, 1975, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January-March, 197 (reference)

  • Les Américains et la Légion d'honneur : 1853-1947 : 23 juin-18 octobre 1993, Musée national de la coopération franco-américaine, Château de Blérancourt = The Americans of the Legion of Honor : 1853-1947 (reference)

  • Rodin's sculpture : a critical study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (reference)

  • Tradition & innovation, 1500-1989 : recent acquisitions of the Achenback Foundation for Graphic Arts : the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 16 September-31 December 1989 (reference)

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Photo Album: LEGION OF HONOR

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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression: LEGION OF HONOR

Expression using "LEGION OF HONOR": the legion of honor. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEGION OF HONOR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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legion of honor

63
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Modern Translations: LEGION OF HONOR

Language Translations for "LEGION OF HONOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Swedish

  

hederslegionen (the legion of honor, the legion of honour). (various references)

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Anagrams: LEGION OF HONOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-o-o-o-r"

-4 letters: nongolfer.

-5 letters: flooring, florigen, forenoon, honoring, horologe, longeron, longhorn, roofline.

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Alternative Orthography: LEGION OF HONOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 47 49 4F 4E      4F 46      48 4F 4E 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000111 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001110 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#71 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0047 0049 004F 004E      004F 0046      0048 004F 004E 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4639414349482494024249484952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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