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Of the 3,515 Medals of Honor awarded as of 2023, [2] 36 have been awarded to Asian-American recipients. The first Asian/Pacific Islander to receive the Medal was James Smith, a native Hawaiian, who was awarded the medal in 1872 in peacetime. The first Asian-American Medal of Honor recipient was Charles J. Simons, who was awarded the Medal of ...
South American metal working seems to have developed in the Andean region of modern Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina with gold and native copper being hammered and shaped into intricate objects, particularly ornaments. [1] [5] Recent finds date the earliest gold work to 2155–1936 BC. [1] and the earliest copper work to 1432–1132 BC.
Sunisa "Suni" Lee (/ s uː ˈ n iː s ə ˈ s uː n i / soo-NEE-sə SOO-nee; née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) [1] [2] is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.
According to Clark Smith Jr. — managing partner and director of World Coins at Gold Hill Coin, as well as an expert in rare Asian coins — some of these coins came over to the U.S. with service ...
In taking an occupied hill, he led the last major American bayonet charge Frank N. Mitchell † Marine Corps: First Lieutenant: Hansan-ri, Korea: November 26, 1950: Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.) Killed by a burst of small arms fire after single-handedly covering his squad's escape Ola L. Mize: Army: Sergeant
Wah Chang Corporation was an American manufacturing company in the metal or alloy industry based in Albany, Oregon in the United States. Since 2014, it has been a business unit of Allegheny Technologies and makes corrosion-resistant metals, such as hafnium, niobium, titanium, vanadium, and zirconium.
There is plenty to celebrate this year, including uniquely AAPI stories made by Asian American and Pacific Islander creators, such as the 2022 multiverse film Everything Everywhere All at Once and ...
Moreno was born in Sacramento, California, the second of five children.His mother is of Mexican and Chinese descent and his father is Mexican. [5] The nickname "Chino" is the Spanish-language term for Chinese people, shortened from "Chinito" (little Chinese one), a moniker "given to him as a kid by his uncles because he looked predominantly Asian, when most Mexicans are mestizo."