Northumbria played an important role in the formation of Insular art, a unique style combining Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Pictish, Byzantine and other elements, producing works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, St Cuthbert Gospel, the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, and later the Book of Kells, which was probably created at Iona.

However the dates assigned to most of the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossery group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay, have all shown a tendency to converge on the period around or slightly before 800, despite the differences between the Northumbrian and Celtic types.

Some have inscriptions recording the donor who commissioned them, like Muiredach's High Cross and the Bewcastle Cross.

Anglo-Saxon crosses were typically more slender, and often nearly square in section, though when, as with the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, they were geographically close to areas of the Celtic Church, they seem to have been larger, perhaps to meet local expectations, and the two 9th century Mercian Sandbach Crosses are the largest up to that period from anywhere.

* The Anglo-Saxon Bewcastle Cross Northumbrian

* The Anglo-Saxon Irton Cross, Cumbria showing affinity to the style of Bewcastle

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Continuous vine scrolls in a great variety of designs of the same general type as the central motif, with few leaves and round fruits, were very common in slightly later religious Anglo-Saxon art, and are often combined with interlace in the same work, especially on Anglo-Saxon crosses, for example the Bewcastle Cross and the Easby Cross now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The vine motif here differs from the common continuous scroll type in that the stems cross over each other twice on each side, but crossing stems are also seen on the upper north face of the Bewcastle Cross and a cross in the church at Hexham.

The Bewcastle Cross, the Ruthwell Cross and the Hexham Cross are probably to be dated to one or two generations after Aldfrith's time.

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Some featured large figurative sculpture of considerable quality, as on the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross ( both probably around 800 ).

" Whatever the subject it is, it is clearly the same as the very similar relief that is the largest panel on the nearby Bewcastle Cross which, subject to dating, was probably created by the same artists.

The " Visionary Cross project ", led by Catherine Karkov, Daniel Paul O ’ Donnell, and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, studies crosses such as the Ruthwell Cross, the Bewcastle Cross, and the Brussels Cross, and in 2012 performed 3D-scans at Ruthwell.

This information however is based on a semi-legible inscription found at Bewcastle and a military diploma from the period that mentions his name in connection with Britain.

Vine-scroll decoration and interlace are seen in alternating panels on the early Northumbrian Ruthwell, Bewcastle and Easby Crosses, though the vine-scroll is already more prominent, and has faces to itself.

The theory that the cross is probably the work of the team of masons and sculptors brought in by Benedict Biscop from the 670s to expand the monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, then one of the leading centres of culture in the Kingdom of Northumbria is still supported by the Bewcastle website ; this reflects the dating of scholars such as Meyer Schapiro.

Bewcastle: the south and east faces of the cross

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There are dedications to him around Hadrian's Wall and Cumbria, including the forts at Birdoswald and Bewcastle.

He correctly distinguished what he called " Briton brykes " ( actually Roman bricks ) at several geographically dispersed sites, including Verulamium, Richborough, Lympne, Dover Castle, Canterbury, and Bewcastle.

The fort at Birdoswald was linked by a Roman road, known as the Maiden Way, to the outpost fort of Bewcastle, seven miles to the north.

) can be found in a small portion of north Cumbria with the southern limit stretching from Bewcastle to Longtown and Gretna.

On 17 November 1539 he was for the third time appointed sheriff of Cumberland ; on 14 May 1541 he sent Henry an account of the state of Scotland, and on 22 October the king ordered reprisals for the burning of some barns near Bewcastle by the Scots ; two days later he added the captaincy of Carlisle to his office of deputy warden, and on 3 January 1542 he was returned to parliament as knight of the shire for Cumberland.

It has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner thus ; " The crosses of Bewcastle and Ruthwell ... are the greatest achievement of their date in the whole of Europe.

* Ó Carragaáin, Éamonn, Christian Inculturation in Eighth-Century Northumbria: The Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses, Colloquium Magazine, Vol 4, Autumn 2007, Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

He is credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State Department of Education.

It is also the subject of a chapter in It's Not About A Salary, by Brian Cross.

The Red Cross is formed.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

* 2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.

There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.

There is a belief that she was buried between platforms 9 and 10 in King's Cross station in London, England.

Firewater's album Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire seventh track is named " Balalaika " but does not appear to contain one.

Cross ownership is a method of reinforcing business relationships by owning stock in the companies with which a given company does business.

Cross ownership of shares is criticized for:

Cross ownership also refers to a type of media ownership in which one type of communications ( say a newspaper ) owns or is the sister company of another type of medium ( such as a radio or TV station ).

The plain is densely forested including areas of Central African mangroves especially around Douala and in the estuary of the Cross River on the border with Nigeria.

The American Red Cross ' policy is as follows:

Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.

Crux is sometimes confused with the nearby False Cross by stargazers.

The False Cross is diamond-shaped, somewhat dimmer on average, does not have a fifth star and lacks the two prominent nearby " Pointer Stars.

It is the dimmest of the Southern Cross stars.

The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross.