JKR OBE

[plinsenmayer]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: RE: JKR OBE
Date: 6/16/00 8:13 pm  (ET)

Hi:

<Rowling has received OBE>

Order of the British Empire??? Can you provide further details of what
this is and what it means for us Yanks? All I could find on the web was
a description of the OBE medal, pre and post 1937, and a brief history
indicating that it was a military award originally instituted in 1917
for WWI service.

I gather it has evolved into something more than just military honors. Can
you elaborate?

Thanks!

I'm getting emails but I can see that navigating the homepage is
problematic today. Yahoo has bouts of this -- hopefully it will be
better tomorrow.

Penny