The Chi-Rho monogram, XP, apparently first used by Constantine I, consists of the first two characters of the name ' Christos ' in Greek.

It is formed by superimposing the first two ( capital ) letters chi and rho ( ΧΡ ) of the Greek word " ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ " = Christ in such a way to produce the monogram.

The usurper Magnentius appears to have been the first to use the Chi-Rho monogram flanked by Alpha and Omega, on the reverse of some coins minted in 353.

In the first line of text that follows the monogram, the letters are hollow-shafted and each successive letter is smaller than the previous.

* Chi Rho, an early christogram formed by superimposing the first two letters in the Greek spelling of the word Christ ( Greek: " Χριστός ") in such a way to produce the monogram ☧.

The first dollars to circulate in British Honduras were Spanish dollars, some of which were counterstamped with the monogram of a crowned – G-R – ( Latin < nowiki >:</ nowiki > Georgius Rex, King George.

When DePaul ’ s first sports teams were formed in the early 1900s, the monogram " D " was selected for the uniforms.

The last events in the 20th century were the release of the mini monogram line in 1999, the opening of the first store in Africa in Marrakech, Morocco in 2000, and finally the auction at the International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, where the vanity case " amfAR " designed by Sharon Stone was sold with the proceeds going to The Foundation for AIDS Research ( also in 2000 ).

The Chi-Rho, a monogram of the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.

The " IHS " Christogram, denoting the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, is usually written as a cypher, but sometimes as a monogram.

A traditional 3-letter monogram has the initial of the individual's last name ( surname ) set larger, or with some special treatment in the center, while the first name initial appears to the left of it and the middle name initial appears to the right of it.

The first " M-Day " homecoming celebration occurred on October 5th, 1912 with the construction of the " M " on M-Hill, the school's mountain monogram.

The early Christian symbol consists of a monogram composed of the Greek letters chi ( X ) and rho ( P ), the first two letters in the name Christ ( Greek: Χριστός ).

The first church was unearthed in 2000, when a monogram of Jesus was found.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.

Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first is a hillside at Kadarim, where stands a small stone building containing a tomb.

Glendalough's granite cliffs, situated on the hillside above the north-western end of the valley, have been a popular rock-climbing location since the first climbs were established in 1948.

There were two American Revolutionary War actions fought on the hillside, the first was in March 1781 under von Steuben and his Virginia Militia, the second in April 1781, under Lafayette.

Situated on the side of the hill, it would have been visible from several miles away, and when first cut the ditches would have exposed the underlying white chalk and stood out against the green hillside.

The first element is almr which means " elm " and the last element is líð which means " hillside ".

The first element is * grefs ' steep hillside ' ( derived from the verb grafa ' dig ( out )'), the last element is vin f ' meadow '.

De Chaumont attempted to attack, first with cavalry and then with Swiss pikemen, but the French, forced to march up a hillside crossed with irrigation ditches, which were soon filled with mud from the pouring rain, were unable to breach the Venetian lines.

In 1450 Giovanni de ' Medici commenced on a hillside the Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, probably the first villa created under the instructions of Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized the features of the new idea of villa in his De re aedificatoria.

On the first morning, Tunick assembled participants with black umbrellas on a hillside above the town centre, and later with clear umbrellas in the narrow streets of the historic quarter of Aurillac.

" The first building the visitor comes across is the " local shop ", located on a lonely hillside moor.

In the first phase of building, the amphitheatre was excavated in the hillside behind the palace.

The first houses in Mid-Levels were often large mansions, with gardens built out on terraces on the steep hillside and most had names such as " Rose Hill " and " Cringleford ", and " Idlewild ".

Workers building the Central Pacific Railroad first noted the grave along the Humboldt River, and in 1906 it was moved to the hillside cemetery when the Union Pacific realigned its tracks.

The hillside had been terraced and the first mansio, whose construction is dated to 54 – 60 CE, fully occupied one terrace.

Only 500 seats are available, the hillside is a first come, first serve area in terms of picking a spot to sit.

Saint Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, nestled in the hillside near the Allegheny River, is the first Croatian Church in America.

It was at the Céide Fields that the first settlers began to farm the slopes of the Behy / Glenurla hillside over 5000 years ago.

Originally, the route first headed directly up the hillside, following the remains of an old tramway built as part of a water collection scheme.

The first houses of Angra were built on the hillside above the cove, the steep streets winding down to the shore.

Governor Philip Gidley King had been in charge of the first settlement there in early 1788 and had noted that the hillside where he had built his Government House had been difficult to dig owing to the amount of tree roots beneath the surface.

The first element is the rivername Gutua, the last element is the finite form of li f ' hillside '.

There are two rows of catacombs built into the hillside, this method of burial was unpopular and only ten bodies were laid to rest in the catacombs in the first 10 years.