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Featured article: November 7, 2006

Order of Virtuti Militari Medal

The Virtuti Militari is Poland's highest military decoration for valor in the face of the enemy. Foreign decorations equivalent to the Virtuti Militari include Britain's Victoria Cross and the U.S. Medal of Honor. It is awarded either for personal heroism or sometimes to commanders representing their units. Awarded in five classes, the order was created in 1792 by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski. Soon after its introduction, however, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was destroyed in the partitions of Poland, and the partitioning powers abolished the decoration and prohibited its wearing. Since then, it has been reintroduced, renamed and banned several times, with its fate closely reflecting the fate of the Polish people. Throughout the decoration's existence, thousands of soldiers and officers, Polish and foreign, several cities and one ship have been awarded the Virtuti Militari for valor or outstanding leadership in war. There have been no new awards since 1989. (more...)

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Greenland Ice Sheet Project

A section of the GISP2 ice core (view the entire image) from 1837 meters (6027 feet) deep in which annual layers of ice are clearly visible (38 years are represented in the entire image). The appearance of layers results from differences in the size of snow crystals deposited in winter versus summer and resulting variations in the abundance and size of air bubbles trapped in the ice.

Photo credit: National Ice Core Laboratory

Featured list: List of U.S. states by elevation

Map of high points as red circles, low points as green squares. Low points on coastlines not shown.
Map of high points as red circles, low points as green squares. Low points on coastlines not shown.

This is a list of United States states by elevation. The highest point in the U.S. is Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet (6,194 m). The lowest point in the U.S. is Badwater in Death Valley at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.

The elevations listed are in the NGVD29 vertical datum, unless otherwise noted. This is an out-of-date datum: elevations in the more up-to-date NAVD88 vertical datum can be individually accessed at the National Geodetic Survey web site.[1]

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prominence
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prominence
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Alabama Cheaha Mountain 2,405 733 Gulf of Mexico 0 0 500 150 2,405 733 1,425 434
Alaska Denali (Mount McKinley) 20,320 6,198 Pacific Ocean 0 0 1,900 580 20,320 6,198 20,156 6,144
Arizona Humphreys Peak 12,633 3,850 Colorado River 70 21 4,100 1,300 12,563 3,832 6,039 1,841
Arkansas Mount Magazine 2,753 840 Ouachita River 55 17 650 200 2,698 823 2,133 650
California Mount Whitney[2] 14,505 4,421 Death Valley -282 -86 2,900 880 14,776 4,505 10,075 3,071

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