In many cultures across the world, birds are not just seen as beautiful creatures flying across the sky. They are symbols of ...

Discover the powerful national symbols of the USA, including the Stars and Stripes, the Bald Eagle, 'In God We Trust,' and ...

The coin features a winged figure, representing peace, wearing a crown of maple leaves, surrounded by olive branches and doves. It’s a beautiful coin, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

We encounter symbols constantly—in road signs, packaging, technology, clothing, and even gestures. While many seem obvious at ...

On the surface, this symbol is supposed to represent an attempt at making peace within all four elements of Earth. However, the Earth Medicine Wheel represents harmony and how it can be achieved. 23.

Matthew J. Clavin tells the story in “Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War.” And it’s a story of when love and honesty met bigotry and hypocrisy head-on.

On one hand, it represents the Lone Star State of Texas, where the last enslaved Blacks obtained their freedom. On the other, it serves as a greater symbol of freedom for Black people across all ...

The peace symbol came to represent the CND and was used and continues to be used by many other protestors and activists around the world to promote peace. Other shapes have interesting origins too.

Gerald Holtom's rarely-exhibited 1958 sketches of the peace symbol will go on view this March in "People Power" at the Imperial War Museum in London.

And above him, that symbol of freedom, the American flag, fluttered. “THE HOME OF THE OPPRESSED,” from William S. Dorr, Slave Market of America, New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.