The Emperors used the double-headed eagle as a symbol of their authority.

The double-headed eagle is the national symbol of the Albanians and was used for heraldic purposes during the Middle Ages by a number of Albanian noble families, including the Kastrioti, whose most famous member was George Kastriot Skanderbeg.

The Karachays and Balkars are very proud of the symbol of the nations, Mount Elbrus, the highest double-headed mountain in Europe with an altitude 5, 642 meters.

Since then the double-headed eagle came to be used as the symbol of the German emperor, and hence as the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

The city uses the double-headed Anatolian Seljuk Eagle as its coat-of-arms, a motif based on the double-headed Byzantine Eagle that was a common symbol throughout Anatolia and the Balkans in the medieval period.

Another common emblem used by the Palaiologoi as a purely dynastic symbol was the double-headed eagle, occasionally displayed bearing the family's sympilema, or dynastic cypher, on the breast.

* The Byzantine Empire began using a double-headed eagle as its symbol after 1057 CE.

* A prominent symbol of the Greek 4th of August Regime was the Labrys / Pelekys, the double-headed axe which Ioannis Metaxas thought to be the oldest symbol of all Hellenic civilizations.

The double-headed eagle is a common symbol in heraldry and vexillology.

The double-headed eagle is used as the symbol of the Imperium of Man in the miniature wargame, Warhammer 40, 000.

A characteristic door with the symbol of the double-headed eagle in Gytheio.

Aquilas symbol is a double-headed black eagle holding an orb, a sword and a sceptre.

Raja's symbol is an eagle and Wydad's symbol is a goose.

The center of the ceiling features a depiction of a white eagle, the symbol of the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

From 104 BC onwards, each legion used an aquila ( eagle ) as its standard symbol.

The symbol was a sign of Gniezno's knightly class: the white eagle.

Indonesia adopts a more stylistic approach to the Garuda's depiction as its national symbol, where it depicts a Javanese eagle ( being much larger than a kite ).

This often takes the form of an eagle of brass or carved wood which supports the book on its outstretched wings and is the symbol of John the Evangelist.

About 1295 Przemysł II used as a coat of arms with a white eagle – a symbol later referred to as the Piast coat of arms ( see depiction ) or as the Piast Eagle.

Bede explains how each of the four Evangelists was represented by their own symbol: Matthew was the man, representing the human Christ, Mark was the lion, symbolizing the triumphant Christ of the Resurrection, Luke was the calf, symbolizing the sacrificial victim of the Crucifixion, and John was the eagle, symbolizing Christ ’ s second coming ( The British Library Board ).

One half of the coat of arms of Bytom depicts a miner mining coal, while the other half presents a yellow eagle on the blue field-the symbol of Upper Silesia.

Later, as consul, he decreed that the eagle would be the symbol of the Senate and People of Rome.

Another large tradition of using the Golden Eagle can be found in the Arab world, where the eagle is historically a symbol of power in Arabic poetry, and was according to legend the personal emblem of Saladin.

She is distinguished by bells of eagle down in her hair, a bell symbol on her cheek, and an ear tab showing the Mexica year sign.

" The bird, an eagle, was not without contemporary historical relevance, as both the United States and Germany ( in its claim to inheritance of the Holy Roman Empire ) used the eagle as a national symbol.

The Osprey is depicted as a white eagle in heraldry, and more recently has become a symbol of positive responses to nature, and has been featured on more than 50 postage stamps used as a brand name for various products and sports teams.

In the place of the Spanish emblem for Mexico, he resurrected the old Tenochtitlan symbol for Mexico City, an eagle perched on a nopal cactus holding a snake in its beak.

A curule magistrate, or promagistrate, carried an ivory baton surmounted by an eagle as his personal symbol of office ( compare the field marshal's baton ).

The 1910 German liner SS Imperator originally sported a large bronze figurehead of an eagle ( the Imperial German symbol ) standing on a globe.

Originally the coat of arms of the city showed an eagle as well as a beaver as a canting symbol.

It also bore a American eagle, the symbol of United States.

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.