The villa was built during the period of Austrian rule in the Duchy of Milan, as a symbol of luxury and magnificence of the Habsburg court.

However, Addendum 202 to the 1919 Law on the State Arms and the State Seal of the Republic of German Austria states expressly that the " new " single headed Austrian eagle is based not on the double headed eagle ( symbol of the Habsburgs since 1804, and previously of the Holy Roman Empire ), but rather on the " symbol of the legions of the Roman Republic ", the Aquila.

The symbol had its origins in a logo designed by Austrian refugee Hans Deutsch for the Unitarian Service Committee ( USC ) ( now the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee ) during World War II.

List's work led to the adoption of his " Armanen runes " runes by the völkisch movement, which had already adopted the swastika as a symbol of Germanic antiquity, and from there List's runes became an integral part of German and Austrian nationalistic socialist symbology.

She lived through the glory and fall of the Austrian and French empires and was believed to be a living symbol of these two lost worlds.

The Emperor of Japan is " the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people " according to the 1947 Constitution of Japan, which dissolved the Empire of Japan when it was adopted by the Postwar Japanese government.

Under its terms the Emperor of Japan is " the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people " and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty.

::: The Emperor shall be the symbol of the State and of the unity of the People, deriving his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power.

The Emperor of Japan is defined as a symbol, not head, of state by the post-war constitution ( contrasting with the former divine status ) but is treated as an imperial head of state under diplomatic protocol ( even ranking above kings ) and retains Shinto mystique.

From then on all Byzantine coins had a religious image or symbol on the reverse, usually an image of Christ for larger denominations, with the head of the Emperor on the obverse, reinforcing the bond of the state and the divine order.

The Quẻ Ly of Vietnamese myth, similarly sometimes mistranslated " unicorn " is a symbol of wealth and prosperity that made its first appearance during the Duong Dynasty, about 600 CE, to Emperor Duong Cao To, after a military victory which resulted in his conquest of Tây Nguyên.

Under its terms the Emperor of Japan is " the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people " and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty.

The constitution asserts that the Emperor is merely a symbol and that he derives " his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power " ( Article 1 ).

With this, the Emperor of China usually used the dragon as a symbol of his imperial power and strength.

Historically, the dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China.

Nevertheless, within a decade Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte began to transform the Château de Fontainebleau into a symbol of his grandeur, as an alternative to the empty Palace of Versailles, with its Bourbon connotations.

As was hinted to about the laurel wreath being a symbol borrowed from Roman history, so too was Napoleon's understanding of an Emperor.

" Kimi " indicates the Emperor, who is the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, and whose position is derived from the consensus-based will of Japanese citizens, with whom sovereign power resides.

And, the phrase "" Kimigayo "" indicates our State, Japan, which has the Emperor enthroned as the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people by the consensus-based will of Japanese citizens.

The Chinese dragon was a symbol reserved for the Emperor of China or high level imperial families during the Qing Dynasty

Leto is known in some Imperial circles, and especially by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, as " the Red Duke " referring to House Atreides ' red hawk symbol.

In the rescript, which follows the Five Charter Oath of 1868, the Emperor denied the concept of his being a living god, which would eventually lead to the promulgation of the new Constitution, under which the Emperor is “ the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people .”

Early Byzantine coins continue the late Roman conventions: on the obverse the head of the Emperor, now full face rather than in profile, and on the reverse, usually a Christian symbol such as the cross, or a Victory or an angel ( the two tending to merge into one another ).

I Parthica symbol was the centaur, represented in the reverse of this coin struck in Singara under Emperor Gordian III.

The checkerboard coat of arms ( šahovnica ) is first attested as an official symbol of the kingdom of Croatia on an Innsbruck tower depicting the emblem of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1499.

According to Lactantius, a Latin historian of North African origins saved from poverty by the patronage of Emperor Constantine I ( r. 306 – 337 ) as tutor to his son Crispus, Constantine had dreamt of being ordered to put a " heavenly divine symbol " () on the shields of his soldiers.

The description of the actual symbol chosen by Emperor Constantine the next morning, as reported by Lactantius, is not very clear: it closely resembles a Chi-Rho or a staurogram, a similar Christian symbol.

Arches were a symbol of sovereignty, and by this point in history, the King of England was being celebrated as rex in regno suo est imperator ( an emperor within his own domains ), owing obedience to no one but God ( unlike some continental rulers, who owed fealty to more powerful kings, or to the Holy Roman Emperor ).

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

As head of the United Nations he was the symbol of world peace, and his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract symbol of the savage in man.

The red-haired captain, towering above the prisoner as a symbol of decency and authority, was shocked to find himself looking with sympathy upon Philip Spencer.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

The double-axe ( λάβρυς: labrys ) was the holy symbol of the Cretan labyrinth.

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

The basic consonantal symbol was considered to have an inherent " a " vowel sound.

The symbol for argon is now Ar, but up until 1957 it was A.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

She is the symbol of the United States Women's Navy and was depicted on their Unit Crest.

The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.

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 ".

" Amazing Grace " came to be an emblem of a religious movement and a symbol of the U. S. itself as the country was involved in a great political experiment, attempting to employ democracy as a means of government.

It was supposed to have special healing properties, and, as a symbol of immortality, was used to decorate images of the gods and tombs.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded, but Brahmi numerals lacked a symbol for 0.