* Hancock, Graham, The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant.

* 1996: Steve Coleman & The Mystic Rhythm Society, The Sign And The Seal ( BMG )

In 1996 Coleman along with a group of 10 musicians as well as dancers and the group Afrocuba de Matanzas worked together for 12 days, performed at the Havana Jazz Festival, and recorded the CD The Sign and The Seal.

* Steve Coleman and the Mystic Rhythm Society in collaboration with AfroCuba de Mantanzas: The Sign and the Seal ( BMG, 1996 )

The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant is a controversial book by British researcher Graham Hancock.

" Desmond Ryan of the Philadelphia Inquirer joked, " If did any more speculating than what is strewn through the many pages of The Sign and the Seal, he would have to go into real estate.

* Hancock, Graham ( 1992 ) The Sign and The Seal ( pp. 241 – 249 ).

Gower Street begins at the corner of First Street in the Hancock Park district as a residential street, becomes primarily industrial, and then commercial as it bisects the Hollywood district, becomes residential again north of Franklin Avenue, and terminates in Beachwood Canyon at Beachwood Drive near the Hollywood Sign.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

In the story, Lovecraft linked the Yellow Sign to Hastur, but from his brief ( and only ) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be.

* The events that Sherlock Holmes investigates in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’ s " The Sign of Four " are set in motion by the background story of Jonathan Small, who had served time in the Andaman Islands penal colony.

The actual text in the novel nearly always uses " the Sign of the Four " ( the five-word form ) to describe the symbol in the story, although the four-word form is used twice by Jonathan Small in his narrative at the end of the story.

As with the first story, A Study in Scarlet, produced two years previously, The Sign of the Four was not particularly successful to start with.

( Two of the four Sherlock Holmes novels – A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four – preceded the short story cycle ).

The story also contains references to the Dream Cycle: Dr. Willett notices the " Sign of Koth " chiselled above a doorway, and remembers his friend Randolph Carter drawing the sign and explaining its powers and meaning.

In 2002 Rainfall Records released a CD by The Society of The Yellow Sign ( a name taken from a story by Joseph S. Pulver ).

In the short story " The Perils of the Double Sign " by Robertson Davies, ( which appears in a collection called High Spirits ,) the narrator mentions that Michael Scot is one of his favourite authors, and his knowledge of Scot's work on the occult aids him in his encounters with a genie.

The NatWest Bank on South Norwood High Street was, in Victorian times and until the mid 1980s, the local police station and is the most likely candidate for the police station mentioned in the second Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of Four.

The American cartoonist Keno Don Rosa used a triple distelfink sign as the origin for Gladstone Gander's remarkable luck ( story: " The Sign of the Triple Distelfink ").

Wise also tells the story of Lucy Temerlin, a six-year-old chimpanzee who learned American Sign Language from Roger Fouts, the primatologist, and was raised by Maurice K. Temerlin and Temerlin Mcclain.

* Jonathan Small a character in the Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of the Four.

Her story is told in the Mahabharata and dramatized by Kalidasa in his play Abhijñānaśākuntala ( The Sign of Shakuntala ).

The false alibi used by the murderer of a witness sighting the missed train smoke was a partial re-use of a plot device used by Christie in the 1925 short story The Sign in the Sky, later published in the 1930 collection The Mysterious Mr. Quin.

The second of three novels by ghostwriter Walter Karig, this story focuses on Nancy's encounter with a 100-year-old man at " The Sign of the Twisted Candles ," a roadside inn and restaurant.

( The " Yellow Sign " is a motif Lovecraft adopted from a story in Robert W. Chambers ' The King in Yellow collection.

One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

In the Philippines, ASL is widely understood by the Deaf community, though it is not the ancestor of Philippine Sign Language as sometimes thought.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* " What is American Sign Language?

* American Sign Language is a Foreign Language – a research / argumentative paper for the consideration of ASL to fulfill University foreign language requirements.

ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

The American Manual Alphabet which is used in American Sign Language.

American Sign Language ( ASL ) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign.

In the United States, Italian is the fourth most taught foreign language after Spanish, French and German, in that order ( the fifth, considering also the American Sign Language ).

* 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Many classical commentators such as Ibn Kathir, At-Tabari, al-Qurtubi, Suyuti, al-Undlusi ( Bahr al-Muhit ), Abu al-Fadl al-Alusi ( Ruh al-Maani ) clearly mention that verse of the Qur ' an refers to the descent of Jesus before the Day of Resurrection, indicating that Jesus would be the Sign that the Hour is close.

Sign at swimming pool depicting, among other requirements, that no clothing is to be worn.

In The Sign of the Four, Watson quotes Holmes as being " an automaton, a calculating machine ", and Holmes is quoted as saying, " It is of the first importance not to allow your judgement to be biased by personal qualities.

Publication of research is both in dedicated journals such as Sign Systems Studies, established by Juri Lotman and published by Tartu University Press ; Semiotica, founded by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Mouton de Gruyter ; Zeitschrift für Semiotik ; European Journal of Semiotics ; Versus ( founded and directed by Umberto Eco ), et al.

It is the only system in regular use, used for example to publish college newsletters in American Sign Language, and has been used for captioning of YouTube videos.

Currently SignWriting is taught on an academic level at the University Federal de Santa Catarina ( UFSC ) as part of its Brazilian Sign Language curriculum.