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# Legion of Merit Medal - Ann Bernatitus

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The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
Prepared—June 9, 1943
    The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the LEGION OF MERIT to
LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE ANN A. BERNATITUS, NURSE CORPS, UNITED STATES NAVY
for service set forth in the following
    CITATION:
    "For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as a member of Surgical Unit #5 during the bombing of the Philippine Islands by enemy Japanese forces for the period December 1941, through April 1942. Constantly in the front lines of defense in the Manila-Bataan Area, and on two separate occasions forced to evacuate to new positions after Japanese bombs had wrecked the Surgical Unit, Nurse Bernatitus courageously withstood the dangers and rigors of tropical combat, rendering efficient and devoted service during the tense days of the prolonged siege and evacuation."
* For the President, FRANK KNOX Secretary of the Navy.
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# Legion of Merit and an Oak Leaf Cluster - J. E. Ray

CITATION TO ACCOMPANY THE AWARD OF
THE LEGION OF MERIT (FIRST OAK LEAF CLUSTER) TO JAMES E. RAY
Colonel James E. Ray distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the United States while assigned to 3300th Technical Training Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, from 6 July 1989 to 31 December 1990. During this period, Colonel Ray displayed exemplary ability, diligence, and devotion to duty in support of the mission of the wing. His efforts resulted in the successful training of over 40,000 students and realized savings of over 2,000 man-days and 16 million dollars through careful scrutiny of training requirements, consolidation and reduction of courses, and diligent reduction of expenditures. The singularly distinctive accomplishments of Colonel Ray culminate a distinguished career in the service of his country and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
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# Legislation Law of the People's Republic of China

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# Legion of Merit 2 - J. E. Ray

CITATION TO ACCOMPANY THE AWARD OF
THE LEGION OF MERIT TO CAPTAIN JAMES E. RAY
FOR THE PERIOD MAY 1966 TO MAY 1969
This officer distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the United States as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam during the above period. His ceaseless efforts, by a continuous showing of resistance to an enemy who ignored all international agreements on treatment of prisoners of war, in the extremely adverse conditions of the communist prisons of North Vietnam, demonstrated his professional competence, unwavering devotion, and loyalty to his country. Despite the harsh treatment through his long years of incarceration, this individual continued to perform his duties in a clearly exceptional manner which reflected great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Sella, Quintino

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​SELLA, QUINTINO (1827-1884), Italian statesman and financier, was born at Mosso, near Biella, on the 7th of July 1827. After studying engineering at Turin, he was sent in 1843 to study mineralogy at the Parisian school of mines. In Paris he witnessed the revolution of 1848, and only returned to Turin in 1852, when he taught applied geometry at the technical institute. In 1853 he became professor of mathematics at the university, and in 1860 professor of mineralogy in the school of applied engineering. In 1860 he was elected deputy for Cossato. A year later he was selected to be secretary-general of public instruction, and in 1862 received from Rattazzi the portfolio of finance. The Rattazzi cabinet fell before Sella could efficaciously provide for the deficit of £17,500,000 with which he was confronted; but in 1864 he returned to the ministry of finance in the La Marmora cabinet, and dealt energetically with the deficit of £8,000,000 then existing. Persuading the king to forgo £120,000 of his civil list, and his colleagues in the cabinet to relinquish part of their ministerial stipends, he effected savings amounting to £2,400,000, proposed new taxation to the extent of £1,600,000, and induced landowners to pay one year's instalment of the land tax in advance. A vote of the chamber compelled him to resign before his preparations for financial restoration were complete; but in 1869 he returned to the ministry of finance in a cabinet formed by himself, but of which he made over the premiership to Giovanni Lanza. By means of the grist tax (which he had proposed in 1865, but which the Menabrea cabinet had passed in 1868), and by other fiscal expedients necessitated by the almost desperate condition of the national exchequer, he succeeded, before his fall from power in 1873, in placing Italian finance upon a sound footing, in spite of fierce attacks and persistent misrepresentation. In 1870 his great political influence turned the scale against interference in favour of France against Prussia, and in favour of an immediate occupation of Rome. From 1873 until his premature death on the 14th of March 1884, he acted as leader of the Right, and was more than once prevented by an ephemeral coalition of personal opponents from returning to power as head of a Moderate Conservative cabinet. After the failure of an attempt to form a cabinet in May 1881 he practically retired from public life, devoting himself to his studies and his linen factory.
His Discorsi parlamentari were published (5 vols., 1887-1890) by order of the Chamber of Deputies. An account of his life and his scientific labours was given by A. Cossa in the Proceedings of the Accademia dei Lincei (1884-1885).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Selkirk Mountains

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​SELKIRK MOUNTAINS, a range in the S.E. of British Columbia, Canada, extending N. for about 200 m. from the American frontier with a breadth of about 80 m. and bounded E., W. and N. by the Columbia river. Though often spoken of as part of the Rocky Mountain system, they are really distinct, and belong to an older geological epoch; consisting mainly of crystalline or highly metamorphosed rocks, granites, gneiss, schists; their outline too is rounder and less serrated than that of the Rockies. On the S.E. is the Purcell range, with the main chain of the Rockies still farther E., and on the W. the Gold range, prolonged northward as the Cariboo Mountains. They do not rise much above 10,000 ft., the highest peaks being Sir Donald (named after Lord Strathcona), 10,645 ft.; Macdonald (named after Sir John Macdonald), 9440 ft.; and Mount Tupper (after Sir Charles Tupper), 9030 ft. The scenery is wild and magnificent; below the snow-line, especially on the western side, the slopes are densely wooded, and enormous glaciers fill the upper valleys; of these the most celebrated is that of the Illecillewaet, near Glacier House, on the Canadian Pacific railway. The Selkirks are crossed by the railway at Rogers Pass, discovered in 1883. The engineering difficulties overcome are greater than at any other portion of the line, and the grades are in places very steep. A magnificent series of caverns, called the Nakimu Caves, occur in the Glacier Park Reserve not far from Glacier on the Canadian Pacific railway. These caves are formed by the Cougar Creek, and were first comprehensively surveyed in 1905–1906 (see the Canadian Surveyor-General's Report for that year).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Selma

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​ SELMA, a city and the county-seat of Dallas county, Alabama, U.S.A., altitude 126 ft., on the right bank of the Alabama river, a little S. of the centre of the state, and known as the Central City. Pop. (1900) 8713, of whom 4429 were negroes; (1910 U.S. census) 13,649. It is served by the Louisville & Nashville, the Southern and the Western of Alabama railways. It has a Carnegie library, two parks and two Y.M.C.A. buildings. In the city are the Selma Military Institute (1907), and the Alabama Baptist Colored University (opened in 1878), which is one of the largest schools in the South owned and controlled by negroes, and has industrial, domestic, normal, collegiate and (especially) theological courses. The Society of United Charities supports the Selma Hospital (1889) for negroes and the Selma Infirmary (1890). The city has a large trade, principally in cotton (the chief crop of the surrounding country), and in lumber from the great pineries. There are cotton compresses, cotton warehouses, &c.; in 1905 the value of the factory products was $1,138,817. The water supply is obtained from artesian wells. The site was originally called Moore's Bluff, from one Thomas Moore, who owned a steamboat landing here about 1815. A town was established about 1817, and in 1820 was incorporated under its present name (from the Ossianic legend). Selma was first chartered as a city in 1852. During the Civil War it was the seat of Confederate arsenals, shipyards and military factories. On the 2nd of April 1865 it was captured by Federal troops under General James H. Wilson (b. 1837) and much of the city was destroyed by fire. Near Selma lived William Rufus King (1786-1853), a Democratic representative in Congress from North Carolina in 1811-1816, a member of the United States Senate from Alabama in 1819-1844 and 1846-1853, minister to France in 1844-1846, and vice-president of the United States from the 4th of March 1853 until his death on the 18th of April; and Selma was the home of John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907), a brigadier-general in the Confederate army in 1863-1865 and a prominent Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1877-1907; and of Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907), also a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army and, in 1897-1907, a Democratic member of the United States Senate.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Selmeczbánya

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​ SELMECZBÁNYA, officially called Selmecz-és Bélabánya (Ger. Schemnitz), the capital of the county of Hont, Hungary, 152 m. N. of Budapest by rail. Pop. (1900) 16,370, about two-thirds Slovaks. It is an old mining town, situated at an altitude of 1945 ft. in a deep ravine in the Hungarian Ore Mountains, and is built in terraces. Selmeczbánya is encircled by high mountains, notably the isolated peak of the Calvarienberg (2385 ft.) on the S.W., on which are situated a castle and a church, and the Paradiesberg (2400 ft.) on the N.W. It possesses a famous academy of mining and forestry, founded by Maria Theresa in 1760, to which are attached a remarkable collection of minerals, and a chemical laboratory. Among other buildings are a picturesque old castle dating from the 13th century, now in ruins with the exception of a few rooms used as a prison; the new castle, used as a fire watch-tower; and the town hall. The mines, chiefly the property of the state and of the corporation, yield silver, gold, lead, copper and arsenic. The town contains also flourishing potteries, where well-known tobacco pipes are manufactured. About 7 m. to the S.W. of the town lie the baths of Vihnye, with springs of iron, lime and carbonic acid, and about the same distance to the W. are the baths of Szkleno with springs of sulphur and lime.
Selmeczbánya is an old town whose mines existed in the 8th century. In the 12th century, together with the whole mining region of northern Hungary, it was colonized by German settlers, who later embraced the Reformation. Owing to the counter-reformation the German element was driven out during the 18th century, and its place taken by the actual Slovak population.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of

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​SELKIRK, THOMAS DOUGLAS, 5th Earl of (1771–1820), was born at St Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, on the 20th of June 1771. He succeeded his father in 1799, his six elder brothers having predeceased him. At this time the Highlands of Scotland were being changed into grazing land and deer forests. Selkirk took deep interest in the evicted peasants, and tried to organize emigration to the British colonies. In 1803–1804 he founded a large and prosperous settlement in Prince Edward Island, and at about the same time a smaller one at Baldoon in Upper Canada. He later turned his attention to the Canadian west, and gradually ​acquired control of the Hudson's Bay Company. In May 1811 an immense tract was granted to him in the Red River valley, and he at once proceeded to send out settlers; but the hostility of the North-West Fur Company, with its headquarters at Montreal, eventually ruined the colony (see Red River Settlement), and the influence of his rivals led to the defeat of Selkirk in various legal proceedings. On the 8th of April 1820 he died broken-hearted at Pau. One of the most generous and disinterested men in the history of colonization, he fell a victim to the predatory selfishness of his rivals.
Copies of his papers, most of which are unpublished, are in the Canadian Archives Department at Ottawa.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Sellar, William Young

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​ SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890), Scottish classical scholar, was born at Morvich, Sutherlandshire, on the 22nd of February 1825. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and afterwards at Glasgow University, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar. Graduating with a first-class in classics, he was elected fellow of Oriel, and, after holding assistant professorships at Durham, Glasgow and St Andrews, was appointed professor of Greek at St Andrews (1857). In 1863 he was elected professor of humanity in Edinburgh University, and occupied that chair down to his death on the 12th of October 1890. Sellar was one of the most brilliant of modern classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature.
His chief works, The Roman Poets of the Republic (3rd ed., 1889) and The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil, 3rd ed., 1897), and Horace and the Elegiac Poets (2nd ed., by W. P. Ker, 1899), with memoir by Andrew Lang, are standard authorities. Sellar contributed to the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. a series of brilliant articles on the Roman poets, the substance of which has been retained in the present edition.
# Marlborough and other poems/If I have suffered pain

XXVI
If I have suffered pain It is because I would. I willed it. 'Tis no good To murmur or complain. I have not served the law That keeps the earth so fair And gives her clothes to wear, Raiment of joy and awe.
For all, that bow to bless That law, shall sure abide. But man shall not abide, And hence his gloriousness. Lo, evening earth doth lie All-beauteous and all peace. Man only does not cease From striving and from cry.
Sun sets in peace: and soon The moon will shower her peace. O law-abiding moon, You hold your peace in fee! Man, leastways, will not be Down-bounden to these laws. Man's spirit sees no cause To serve such laws as these.
​There yet are many seas For man to wander in. He yet must find out sin, If aught of pleasance there Remain for him to store, His rovings to increase, In quest of many a shore Forbidden still to fare.
Peace sleeps the earth upon, And sweet peace on the hill. The waves that whimper still At their long law-serving (O flowing sad complaint!) Come on and are back drawn. Man only owns no king, Man only is not faint.
You see, the earth is bound. You see, the man is free. For glorious liberty He suffers and would die. Grudge not then suffering Or chastisemental cry. O let his pain abound, Earth's truant and earth's king!
# Marlborough and other poems/East Kennet Church at Evening

III
EAST KENNET CHURCH AT EVENING
I stood amongst the corn, and watched The evening coming down. The rising vale was like a queen, And the dim church her crown.
Crown-like it stood against the hills. Its form was passing fair. I almost saw the tribes go up To offer incense there.
And far below the long vale stretched. As a sleeper she did seem That after some brief restlessness Has now begun to dream.
(All day the wakefulness of men, Their lives and labours brief, Have broken her long troubled sleep. Now, evening brings relief.)
​There was no motion there, nor sound. She did not seem to rise. Yet was she wrapping herself in Her grey of night-disguise.
For now no church nor tree nor fold Was visible to me: Only that fading into one Which God must sometimes see.
No coloured glory streaked the sky To mark the sinking sun. There was no redness in the west To tell that day was done.
Only, the greyness of the eve Grew fuller than before. And, in its fulness, it made one Of what had once been more.
There was much beauty in that sight That man must not long see. God dropped the kindly veil of night Between its end and me.
24 July 1913
# Marlborough and other poems/German Rain

XXII
GERMAN RAIN
The heat came down and sapped away my powers. The laden heat came down and drowned my brain, Till through the weight of overcoming hours I felt the rain.
Then suddenly I saw what more to see I never thought: old things renewed, retrieved. The rain that fell in England fell on me, And I believed.
# Marlborough and other poems/In Memoriam S. C. W., V.C.

XXXVII
IN MEMORIAM
S.C.W., V.C.
There is no fitter end than this. No need is now to yearn nor sigh. We know the glory that is his, A glory that can never die.
Surely we knew it long before, Knew all along that he was made For a swift radiant morning, for A sacrificing swift night-shade.
8 September 1915
# Marlborough and other poems/Expectans Expectavi

XXIX
EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI
From morn to midnight, all day through, I laugh and play as others do, I sin and chatter, just the same As others with a different name.
And all year long upon the stage I dance and tumble and do rage So vehemently, I scarcely see The inner and eternal me.
I have a temple I do not Visit, a heart I have forgot, A self that I have never met, A secret shrine—and yet, and yet
This sanctuary of my soul Unwitting I keep white and whole, Unlatched and lit, if Thou should'st care To enter or to tarry there.
With parted lips and outstretched hands And listening ears Thy servant stands, Call Thou early, call Thou late, To Thy great service dedicate.
May 1915
# Marlborough and other poems/Le Revenant

X
LE REVENANT
He trod the oft-remembered lane (Now smaller-seeming than before When first he left his father's door For newer things), but still quite plain
(Though half-benighted now) upstood Old landmarks, ghosts across the lane That brought the Bygone back again: Shorn haystacks and the rooky wood;
The guide post, too, which once he clomb To read the figures: fourteen miles To Swindon, four to Clinton Stiles, And only half a mile to home:
And far away the one homestead, where— Behind the day now not quite set So that he saw in silhouette Its chimneys still stand black and bare—
​He noticed that the trees were not So big as when he journeyed last That way. For greatly now he passed Striding above the hedges, hot
With hopings, as he passed by where A lamp before him glanced and stayed Across his path, so that his shade Seemed like a giant's moving there.
The dullness of the sunken sun He marked not, nor how dark it grew, Nor that strange flapping bird that flew Above: he thought but of the One....
He topped the crest and crossed the fence, Noticed the garden that it grew As erst, noticed the hen-house too (The kennel had been altered since).
It seemed so unchanged and so still. (Could it but be the past arisen For one short night from out of prison?) He reached the big-bowed window-sill,
Lifted the window sash with care, Then, gaily throwing aside the blind, Shouted. It was a shock to find That he was not remembered there.
​At once he felt not all his pain, But murmuringly apologised, Turned, once more sought the undersized Blown trees, and the long lanky lane,
Wondering and pondering on, past where A lamp before him glanced and stayed Across his path, so that his shade Seemed like a giant's moving there.
# Marlborough and other poems/J. B.

VII
J. B.
There's still a horse on Granham hill, And still the Kennet moves, and still Four Miler sways and is not still. But where is her interpreter?
The downs are blown into dismay, The stunted trees seem all astray, Looking for someone clad in grey And carrying a golf-club thing;
Who, them when he had lived among, Gave them what they desired, a tongue. Their words he gave them to be sung Perhaps were few, but they were true.
The trees, the downs, on either hand, Still stand, as he said they would stand. But look, the rain in all the land Makes all things dim with tears of him.
And recently the Kennet croons, And winds are playing widowed tunes. —He has not left our "toun o' touns," But taken it away with him!
October 1913
# Marlborough and other poems/Deus Loquitur

XXVIII
DEUS LOQUITUR
That's what I am: a thing of no desire, With no path to discover and no plea To offer up, so be my altar fire May burn before the hearth continuously, To be For wayward men a steadfast light to see.
They know me in the morning of their days, But ere noontide forsake me, to discern New lore and hear new riddles. But moonrays Bring them back footsore, humble, bent, a-burn To turn And warm them by my fire which they did spurn.
They flock together like tired birds. "We sought Full many stars in many skies to see, But ever knowledge disappointment brought. Thy light alone, Lord, burneth steadfastly." Ah me! Then it is I who fain would wayward be.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Browne, John Frederic

​Browne, John Frederic, district and sessions judge, Bengal C.S., a student of the Middle Temple 19 April, 1853, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1858 (eldest son of Robert Browne, M.D., of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France); born , .
# Men-at-the-Bar/Browne, John Henry Valentine

​Browne, John Henry Valentine, B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 6 June, 1871, called to the bar there 17 Nov., 1875, called to the Irish bar Hilary, 1874 (eldest son of Henry Browne, Esq., of Bauner, Ardflet, co. Kerry); born , .
    42, John Dalton Street, Manchester.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Browne, John Hutton Balfour

​Browne, John Hutton Balfour, a member of the Midland circuit, author of Law of Usages and Customs, Law of Carriers, etc., registrar and secretary to railway commissioners 1874–82, a student of the Middle Temple 13 Jan., 1868, called to the bar 10 June, 1870 (2nd son of William Alexander Francis Browne, M.D., a commissioner in lunacy for Scotland, of Broomlands, co. Kirkcudbright); born , ; married 14 March, 1874, Caroline, 4th dau. of late Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Lush, judge of appeal.
    88, Claverton Street, S.W.; 3, Elm Court, Temple, E.C.