The practice in the time of Gamaliel II ( c. 100 CE ) was for witnesses to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month.

However, the spring at what would become Jericho was a popular camping ground for Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent microlith tools behind them.

It was completed in 1855, with Sussex Square larger than London's Grosvenor Square and at the time the biggest housing crescent in Britain.

The original meaning of the phrase new moon was the first visible crescent of the Moon, after conjunction with the Sun.

" The crescent moon pendant is arguably the most iconic of all Nicks's jewelry – the original was bought while she was in England on tour with Fleetwood Mac during the Tusk era.

The region was so named because of its rich soil and crescent shape.

Albert Camus was a Pied-Noir ( black foot ) – a Frenchman born in the Maghreb, the northernmost crescent of Mediterranean Africa then the heart of France's African colonies.

An apocryphal story claims that King Louis XVI ( an amateur locksmith ) recommended that a triangular blade with a beveled edge be used instead of a crescent blade, but it was Schmidt who suggested placing a straight blade at a 45 degree angle.

The Conklin crescent filler, introduced c. 1901, was one of the first mass-produced self-filling pen designs.

The cross on top of the Dome of the Rock was replaced by a golden crescent, and a wooden screen was placed around the rock below.

The crescent motif was also used on the logos of other Canwest properties such as E!

The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the " crescent " with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, in use as of February 5, 2006 ( coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ).

The crescent, which had been used as a common design element in many Canwest logos, was subsequently removed from other properties owned or sponsored by the company.

As the crescent moon strongly resembles the curved beak of the ibis, this separate deity was named Djehuty ( i. e. Thoth ), meaning ibis.

In art, Thoth was usually depicted with the head of an ibis, deriving from his name, and the curve of the ibis ' beak, which resembles the crescent moon.

Sometimes, he was depicted as a baboon holding up a crescent moon, as the baboon was seen as a nocturnal, and intelligent, creature.

On Jan. 20, while the craft was still in daylight, the TV camera clearly saw two laser beams aimed at it from the night side of the crescent Earth, one from Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and the other at Table Mountain at Wrightwood, California.

On the Nones, she was honored as Juno Covella, Juno of the crescent moon.

A county was eventually drawn with the crescent of the Kiamichi River valley forming its commercial heart, and it was to be called Pushmataha County, Sequoyah.

This choice of completion for the triad should have proved popular, but because the isheru, the sacred lake outside Mut's ancient temple in Karnak at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Khonsu, the moon god eventually replaced Menthu as Mut's adopted son.

It was said that when Khonsu caused the crescent moon to shine, women conceived, cattle became fertile, and all nostrils and every throat was filled with fresh air.

Built over in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it contains many fine examples of substantial Georgian and Victorian houses – most notably Michael Searles ' crescent of semi-detached terrace houses linked by colonnades, The Paragon ( c 1793-1807 ) – as well as some 1930s and 1960s additions.

Since the end of World War II, new subdivisions in the United States and Canada, as well as New Towns in England and other countries have made extensive use of the cul-de-sac and crescent ( loops ) street types.

During the Libyan civil war against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, the 1951 – 1969 flag – as well as various makeshift versions without the crescent and star symbol, or without the green stripe – came back into use in areas held by the Libyan opposition and by protesters at several Libyan diplomatic missions abroad.

The flag's design is derived from the standard of Emir Abdel Kadir in the 19th century which consisted of two equal vertical bands, green and white, as well as being inspired from the flag of the Algerian Regency from the 16th to the 19th century, which consisted of a white crescent and star on a red background ( the same as the modern flag of Turkey ; the Algerian Regency was an autonomous vassal of the Ottoman Empire ).

Meanwhile, in 1892 he erected a pole which was over sixty feet high, with a crescent moon symbol at its peak, atop the hill where his first son had been cremated, and noted that he wanted his funeral to take place there as well.

The Thracians fought as peltasts using javelins and crescent or round wicker shields. Missile weapons were favored but close combat weaponry was carried by the Thracians as well. These close combat weapons varied from the dreaded Rhomphaia & Falx

Small white spots are present on the cheeks, as well as a white ascending crescent below the eyes.

These include geometric symbols which have been assigned descriptive names by researchers such as crescent and V-rod, double disc and Z-rod, and outline representations of animals such as the adder, salmon, wolf, stag, eagle, as well as the apparently mythical Pictish Beast ), perhaps intended as a sea-monster.

Class I Pictish stones are unshaped standing stones incised with a series of about 35 symbols which include abstract designs ( given descriptive names such as crescent and V-rod, double disc and Z-rod, ' flower ' and so on by researchers ); carvings of recognisable animals ( bull, eagle, salmon, adder and others ), as well as the Pictish Beast, and objects from daily life ( a comb, a mirror ).

It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta or the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

* The Islamic calendar has retained an observational definition of the new moon, marking the new month when the first crescent moon is actually seen, and making it impossible to be certain in advance of when a specific month will begin ( in particular, the exact date on which Ramadan will begin is not known in advance ).

When the crescent moon symbol had degenerated into the horns, she sometimes was known as Safekh-Aubi, meaning she who wears the two horns.

The crescent is one of the oldest symbols known to humanity.

Its flag was known from West Africa to the Far East, and helped to popularize the crescent and star among the Muslim populations of many countries of Asia and Africa.

The best known example of planetshine is earthshine, which can be seen from Earth when the Moon is a thin crescent.

The most anterior plate is crescent shaped, and is known as the cephalic plate ( sometimes called a " head plate ", despite the absence of a complete head ).

The earliest castle at this site consisted of two earthworks – the pear shaped inner ward with a surrounding water-filled moat, and a crescent shaped outer bailey to the south known as the hornwork.

The flag of Malaysia, also known as the Jalur Gemilang ( Malay for " Stripes of Glory "), comprises a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan ( Federal Star ).

In 1953, the 1st Battalion relieved the Black Watch, who had been defending a position known as The Hook, a crescent shaped ridge, which was of tactical importance in the Commonwealth sector.

A tactically important feature known as " The Hook ", a crescent shaped ridge, was the scene of intense fighting between Commonwealth forces and the Chinese in May.

' Tongans are known for creating unique ' kahoa ' leis made of chains of flat, crescent or triangular arrangements made of flower petals and leaves sewn onto a leaf or cloth backing.

The People Nation street gangs have been known to use a star and crescent.

It is rod or crescent shaped and one of the smallest self-replicating cells known, with a length of 0. 37-0. 89 µm and a diameter of only 0. 12-0. 20 µm.

The communal gardens of the crescent are occupied by a large Art Deco building, known as the Carreras Building.

The president of the club was known as " The Emperor of the Mohocks " and was distinguished by a crescent tattoo on his forehead.

The water, overflows and passes near by Mayani village and forms shape of moon crescent, and hence known as Chand Nadi.

The area later became known as Bagumbayan Field where the Cuartel la Luneta ( Luneta Barracks ), a Spanish Military Hospital ( which was destroyed by one of the earthquakes of Manila ), and a moat-surrounded outwork of the walled city of Manila, known as the Luneta ( lunette ) because of its crescent shape.

* diós kifli, mákos kifli, also known as Pozsonyi kifli ( Pozsony is the Hungarian name of Bratislava, capital city of the Slovak Republic ) are crescent shaped sweet levened pastries filled with a sweet walnut or poppy paste.

Deer Horn Knives (), also known as crescent moon knives, are specialised Chinese bladed weapons consisting of two steel crescents crossing.

Collectively, these peaks are known as ' Chandradrona Parvatha Shreni ' ( Chandradrona Mountain Range ) as they naturally form the shape of a crescent moon.