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Halo (religious iconography) A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk'; [1][2] also called a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole (Latin: gloriola, lit. 'little glory') is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [3] that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
The Chi-Rho symbol. The Chi Rho (☧, English pronunciation / ˈkaɪ ˈroʊ /; also known as chrismon[1]) is one of the earliest forms of the Christogram, formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters— chi and rho (ΧΡ)—of the Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ (rom: Christos) in such a way that the vertical stroke of the rho intersects the ...
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The first Wikipedia logo. In January 2001, Jimmy Wales used the flag of the United States as a placeholder logo for Wikipedia's UseModWiki instance. [4] Wikipedia's first true logo was an image originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad – under the username Bjornsm – for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [5]
Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [ 1 ] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [ 1 ] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ ...
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Section sign. The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1] It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. [2][3] In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example ...