An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

Polar bears are the iconic symbol of Svalbard, and one of the main tourist attractions.

A crucifix ( an image of Christ crucified on a cross ) is the main religious symbol for Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, but most Protestant Christians prefer to use a cross without the figure ( the " corpus ": Latin for " body ") of Christ.

* The Lungomare Falcomatà, a seaside promenade located in the downtown, is a crowded swimming destination and main symbol of the summer movida ; it was defined by Nando Martellini, quoting wrongly the poet Gabriele D ' Annunzio, as " the most beautiful kilometre of Italy ".

One of the main types of entropy coding creates and assigns a unique prefix-free code to each unique symbol that occurs in the input.

The main scope for error comes in setting the parameter of first or third angle projection, and displaying the relevant symbol on the technical drawing.

The main symbol of the practice is the Falun ( dharma wheel, or Dharmacakra in Sanskrit ).

This combined references to several symbols of the realm: the White Tree was a unique plant brought by Isildur from Númenor, first planted in Minas Ithil and later three times replanted from seed at Minas Anor ; the Crown of Gondor was in the beginning Isildur's war-helmet and later the main symbol of monarchy in the South-kingdom, with wings of a sea-bird being an emblem of the exiled Númenóreans ; and the stars " originally represented the single stars on the banners of each of seven ships of nine in which Elendil and his sons sailed to Middle-earth that bore a palantír ".

The Rainbow flag ( LGBT movement ) | Gay pride flag, the main symbol of the LGBT community The Bear ( gay culture ) | Bear community is a subculture within the LGBT community

The island as a whole coincidentally resembles a stylized maple leaf, the main Canadian symbol.

His main symbol is a buffalo wearing a tunic.

His main symbol is the akpan bird, a trade gun ( flintlocks became the standard issue to the Dahomean army during his reign ), and a Dahomey Amazon striking her head against a tree ( a reference to a humorous war story stemming from one of his military campaigns ).

* The Olympic Flame has been used as a symbol and main motif numerous times in different commemorative coins.

Oscar II of Sweden | King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway in the Crown of Eric XIV, the main symbol of the Swedish king.

According to the National Park Service, the Statue's Roman robe is the main feature that invokes Libertas and the symbol of Liberty from which the Statue derives its name.

The Unisphere, built as the theme symbol for the 1964 / 1965 World's Fair, is the main sculptural feature of the park.

Sited closer to the original Keston Court than the main village itself, Keston's small medieval church is unusual in that does not have a dedication to a saint, but built into the altar-table is the top of the 17th century altar inlaid with a very elaborate cross and inscribed " The Keston Marke: IN HOC SIGNO VINCES ", so the parish has a distinctive symbol instead.

Polar bears are the iconic symbol of Spitsbergen, and one of the main tourist attractions.

As a recognisable symbol of the local area, as well as the main road connection between Cornwall and the rest of England and the UK, the Tamar Bridge is often used for a focus for protests or charity events.

A table listing the seventeen rare earth elements, their atomic number and symbol, the etymology of their names, and their main usages ( see also Technological applications ) is provided here.

With a defensive scheme, whose main symbol was mid-fielder Dunga, and three full-backs, the team lacked creativity but made it to the second round.

Symbolism is to be found in every one of Zola's novels, and Rougon, in his main lines, is but the symbol of a principle, or, to be accurate, the symbol of a certain form of the principle of authority.

The following is based on page 37 of Bell's Speakable and Unspeakable ( Bell, 1971 ), the main change being to use the symbol ‘ E ’ instead of ‘ P ’ for the expected value of the quantum correlation.

Along with James II's perceived despotism, his religion was the main cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the previous linked religious and succession problems solved by the joint monarchy of William and Mary.

The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery of Alcobaça with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church.

The main interwar conservative party was called the People's Party ( PP ), which supported constitutional monarchy and opposed the republican Liberal Party.

Particularly since hardliners among the monarchs were the main adversaries, demands for freedom of the press and other liberal rights were most often uttered in connection with the demand for a united Germany, even though many revolutionaries-to-be had different opinions whether a republic or a constitutional monarchy would be the best solution for Germany.

* 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The theorist Benedict Anderson argues that nations are " imagined communities " ( the members cannot possibly know each other ), and that the main causes of nationalism and the creation of an imagined community are the reduction of privileged access to particular script languages ( such as Latin ), the movement to abolish the ideas of divine rule and monarchy, as well as the emergence of the printing press under a system of capitalism ( or, as Anderson calls it, print-capitalism ).

He was elected as Pope Julius II to the papal dignity by the near-unanimous vote of the cardinals ( indeed, the only three votes he did not receive were those of Georges D ' Amboise, supposedly his main opponent and the favourite of the French monarchy, and the votes of Cardinals Carafa and Casanova ) almost certainly by means of bribery.

This later source is generally known as the republican source, since here, and elsewhere, it denigrates the actions and role of the monarchy ( particularly those of Saul ) and favours religious figures, in contrast to the other main source – the monarchial source – which treats the monarchy favourably.

The main issue was not an end to or lessening of the power of the monarchy but " full freedom from Indian interference.

Although the main theme of Trogus was the rise and history of the Macedonian monarchy, Justin yet permitted himself considerable freedom of digression, and thus produced an idiosyncratic anthology instead of a mundane summary ( or ' epitome ') of the work.

The old status quo began a retrenchment after the end of the main civil war in 1646, and more especially after the restoration of monarchy in 1660.

In 1971, Persepolis was the main staging ground for the 2, 500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

In the East gallery, you find the splendid main stair case with a fresco-decorated vaulted ceiling depicting The glory of the Spanish monarchy.

In the moment of inertia following the resignation of the government of Adolphe Thiers, 24 May 1873, François Pie, bishop of Poitiers, expressed the national yearning for spiritual renewal — " the hour of the Church has come "— that would be expressed through the " Government of Moral Order " of the Third Republic, which linked Catholic institutions with secular ones, in " a project of religious and national renewal, the main features of which were the restoration of monarchy and the defense of Rome within a cultural framework of official piety ", of which Sacré-Cœur is the chief lasting triumphalist monument.

Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the idea of benevolent royalty.

On 22 November 2005, the joint CPN ( M )- United People's Front conference in Delhi issued a 12-point resolution, stating that they "... completely agree that autocratic monarchy is the main hurdle " hindering the realisation of " democracy, peace, prosperity, social advancement and a free and sovereign Nepal.

The main role of the castle and its garrison in this period was to establish the authority of the Margraves over the unruly citizens of Berlin, who were reluctant to give up their mediaeval privileges to a centralised monarchy.

According to his theory of imagined communities, the main causes of nationalism are the declining importance of privileged access to particular script languages ( such as Latin ) because of mass vernacular literacy ; the movement to abolish the ideas of rule by divine right and hereditary monarchy ; and the emergence of printing press capitalism — all phenomena occurring with the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Defining the Austrian monarchy as " a sad nothingness ", Ionescu expressed his opinion that the German Empire, Austria-Hungary's main ally, was gripped by the influence of Prussian " corporalism ".

In 1672 the intrigues of the two Fürstenbergs had resulted in a treaty of offensive alliance between the French monarchy and the electorate of Cologne, and, the brothers being regarded by the Imperialists as the main cause of this disaster, William was seized by imperial soldiers in the monastery of St Pantaleon at Cologne, hurried off to Vienna and was tried for his life.

The five buildings that makeup the main façade of the Palace date back to the second half of the 17th century, and were built at a time when, more and more, the monarchy and nobility were escaping the urbanized confines of Lisbon.

William H. Riker, one of the main theoreticians about federalism, considered that the Brazilian monarchy adopted a federalist model after the 1834 Additional Act.