The reverse side of this Maltese cross was enamelled white with red borders and had at its center an oval gold medallion with the founder's crowned royal cypher above two crossed swords taken from his arms as the Arch-Marshall of the Holy Roman Empire.

One of the anecdotes told about the Nazi occupation of Norway ( 1940 – 1945 ) is that at a time when the public display of the Norwegian flag or the State Coat of Arms could bring imprisonment or even death, the Norwegians discovered that they could display the ' H ' overlapping the ' 7 ' of the royal cypher of their exiled king, Haakon VII, at the center of a rosemaling design without the German occupation forces seeing anything but a colorful peasant design.

Christmas cards with the royal cypher at the center of a rosemaling design were especially popular and many have survived and their history documented.

Palaiologos-Dynasty-Eagle. svg | The double-headed eagle, the most recognized emblem of the Byzantine Empire, with the dynastic cypher of the Palaiologoi in the center.

On September 28th, ( October 10th, new style ) 1806, Aleksandr I, Emperor of Russia made a notation on the design submitted to him of a new flag for the Russian-American Company ; " So be it ", and added his cypher, thereby approving the first flag in Russia's history to be used by an Imperial chartered company.

The flag, in a 1: 2 proportion, consists of the escutcheon of the Royal Arms of Canada in banner form and defaced with the distinct cypher of Queen Elizabeth II used on her Head of the Commonwealth flag: a blue disk with the initial E crowned, all within a wreath of roses, all gold-coloured.

On September 28th, ( October 10th, new style ) 1806, Aleksandr I, Emperor of Russia made a notation on the design submitted to him of a new flag for the Russian-American Company ; " So be it ", and added his cypher, thereby approving the first flag in Russia's history to be used by an Imperial chartered company.

The winning company was given a special flag bearing the King's personal cypher, the Company Sergeant Major was presented with a special pace stick, and all members of the company were permitted to wear a special red badge on the arm of their uniform.

After several EiiR pillar boxes were blown up by improvised explosive devices, the General Post Office ( as it was at that time ) replaced them with ones which only bore the Crown of Scotland and no Royal cypher.

* Henry VII: a Rose of York and Lancaster ; a Portcullis and a Fleur-de-Lis, all of them crowned ; a red dragon ; a white greyhound ; a Hawthorn Bush and Crown, with the cypher H. R.

While he was with Webb, he took part in a legendary cypher with the Wu Tang Clan family in Buffalo, New York, which earned him respect from the rap veterans.

Two date from the reign of Charles II, two from the reign of James II, three from William and Mary's reign, and one from Queen Anne ( the cypher of George I was subsequently added to the latter ).

Then on 20 May 1940 a raid on the home of Tyler Kent, a cypher clerk at the U. S. Embassy, disclosed that Kent had stolen copies of thousands of telegrams including those from Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt.

In any case, it was necessary to change the cards at least once per day to prevent the cypher pattern from repeating.

* The Regimental Cap Badge is made up from the Angel Harp of the 8th Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, superimposed on the Regimental cypher of the Queen's Own Hussars, originally bestowed on the 7th Hussars in 1727 ; the whole is surmounted by the Queen's crown and a lion, with a scroll underneath giving the Regiment's title in blue and gold.

Infantry in panzer divisions from 1937 onwards were known as Schützen Regiments ; they wore the same rose pink piping on their uniforms as the tank crews ( with an " S " cypher that distinguished the Schützen from the tank and anti-tank units that also wore that colour ).

The physical symbol of the award was a blue-enameled Maltese Cross with golden eagles, based on the symbol of the Johanniter Order, between the arms and the Prussian royal cypher and the words Pour le Mérite (" For Merit " in the French language ) written in gold letters on the body of the cross.

Public notice had actually been served that Japanese cryptography was dangerously inadequate by the Chicago Tribune, which published a series of stories just after Midway, starting on 7 June 1942, which claimed ( correctly ) that victory was due in large part to U. S. breaks into Japanese crypto systems ( in this case, the JN-25 cypher, though which system ( s ) had been broken was not mentioned in the newspaper stories ).

Additionally, in the top two corners are images of Elizabeth's royal cypher, balancing out representations of the Sovereign's badges for both the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit in the bottom two corners.

The badge Order of the White Eagle was originally a red enamel oval gold medal with an image of the Polish white eagle on its front side and bearing Augustus II's royal cypher over crossed swords on its reverse side worn on a light blue ribbon.

Clergy of the royal peculiars, senior chaplains to the forces, members of the Chapels Royal and Honorary Chaplains to the Queen may wear a scarlet cassock and a special badge ( Queen's cypher surmounted by St Edward's crown surrounded by oak and laurel leaves ) on their scarf.

The reverse, in silver-gilt, is patterned with rays and depicts the royal cypher and St Edward's Crown in gold and enamel.

In cryptography, a cipher ( or cypher ) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption — a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

" Cipher " is alternatively spelled " cypher "; similarly " ciphertext " and " cyphertext ", and so forth.

Its public function was " to advise as to the security of codes and cyphers used by all Government departments and to assist in their provision ," but also had a secret directive to " study the methods of cypher communications used by foreign powers.

Harry's cypher is similar to his brother's, but displays an H in a shade of blue similar to that used by his mother.

The chief motive of these men, both of whom were experienced generals, was that they wished to assume the Imperial position that Nikephoros II and John I had held, and thus return Basil to the role of impotent cypher.

At a little over thirteen he helped construct a sound substitution cypher known as Nevbosh, ' new nonsense ', which grew to include some elements of actual invented language.

A royal cypher, appearing on buildings and official seals, or a crown, seen on provincial and national coats of arms, as well as police force and Canadian Forces regimental and maritime badges and rank insignia, is also used to illustrate the monarchy as the locus of authority, the latter without referring to any specific monarch.

Hence, the insignia and medallions for these awards bear a crown, cypher, and / or effigy of the monarch.

So the designation painted on the sides of the rocket was not a serial number in clear text, but employed a simple transformation cypher that the staff would be sure not to forget.

Double letters, apostrophes, and the fact that no letter can substitute for itself in the cypher also offer clues to the solution.

Two versions of the King's Emblem Pin ( Kongemærket ) showing Christian's CX royal cypher | cypher.

Image: 16th century French cypher machine in the shape of a book with arms of Henri II. jpg | A cypher machine in the shape of a book, with arms of Henri II.

The Abwehr was now monitored round the clock and the volume and regularity of the material obtained enabled Bletchley to achieve one of its great triumphs in December 1941, when it decoded the Abwehr's Enigma cypher, giving enormous insight into German intelligence operations.

Beginning with Calamity Town in 1942, Ellery becomes less of a cypher and more of a human being, often becoming emotionally affected by the people in his cases, and at one point quitting detective work altogether.

These matters went largely unreported in the British press, but the question of the royal cypher on Post Office pillar boxes became front-page news.

Home nevertheless arranged that in Scotland new pillar boxes were decorated with the royal crown instead of the full cypher.

* A series of distinctive but uncombined initials, such as a royal cypher.

All aides-de-camp also wear the cypher or badge of the principal to whom they are appointed.

* John Herbert King, British Foreign Office cypher clerk and spy