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Carnations are also worn on Teachers Day (15 May). [25] Red carnations are worn on May Day as a symbol of socialism and the labour movement in some countries, such as Austria, Italy, [26] and successor countries of the former Yugoslavia. The red carnation is also the symbol of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal thanks to Celeste Caeiro.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Dianthus (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n θ ə s / dy-AN-thəs) [1] is a genus of about 340 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native mainly to Europe and Asia, with a few species in north Africa and in southern Africa, and one species (D. repens) in arctic North America.
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory flowers. State federal district ... Scarlet carnation (state flower) Dianthus caryophyllus: 1953 [50]
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine, the columbine, the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils. Mariological symbols include the rose, lily, olive, cedar, cypress and palm ...
The painting depicts a youthful Virgin Mary playing with the Christ child and handing him carnations. (The Italian title, La Madonna dei garofani actually means The Madonna of the Carnation.) These flowers, whose botanical name is dianthus ( Greek for ‘flower of God’), are a premonition of Christ's Passion – according to Christian legend ...
A FBI document obtained by Wikileaks details the symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify sexual preferences. According to the document members of pedophilic organizations use of ...
In the late 1980s, several symbols from the Middle Ages were revived as Slovene national symbols, though their use is largely restricted to nationalist circles. Among them, the most popular are the so-called Slovene Hat , the crest of the coat of arms of the Slovene March , and the Black Panther , a reconstruction of the supposed coat of arms ...