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Rudyard Kipling was honored at a dinner at the club on April 2, 1898, where guests enjoyed beef fillet and lamb medallions alongside Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1882 vintage, according to a menu preserved there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Back then, it was difficult to see the second- and third-order effects of the internet—that the value of taxi medallions would drop 90%, for instance, or that we would feel comfortable sleeping in strangers’ homes.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

There are exquisite medallions and hair ornaments made from iridescent abalone shells and strings of Chumash currency — tiny, doughnut-shaped beads created from carefully cut olivella shells.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

He has suggested cancer is a choice and sold medallions online said to ward off Covid-19, while Princess Martha Louise has claimed she is able to communicate with angels.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

He sent some of the medallions across the Atlantic to Benjamin Franklin, for use in his American antislavery campaign.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman