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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor23.5.1900
Wikipedia (15 Apr 2013, 09:42)
Carney was awarded the Medal of Honor May 23, 1900, nearly 37 years later. More than half such awards from the Civil War were presented 20 or more years after the fact. In later life, Carney was a postal employee and popular speaker at patriotic events. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, and is buried in the family plot at Oak Grove Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Engraved on his stone monument is a gold image of the Medal of Honor.
