On Good Friday, Christians venerate the cross of Christ. According to Sarah Coleman, an author, "The cross is a symbol of death but so much more - death and life, hate and love, violence and peace, ...
HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account of the ...
Perched high above the ground in the middle of California’s Mojave National Preserve is a two-metre-tall structure known simply as the cross in the desert. The white cross, erected 75 years ago by ...
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Michael Symmons Roberts investigates the meaning of the Christian cross and hears from those who have discovered its power in their own lives. Paradoxically a symbol of suffering and defeat but also ...
A Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo's supposed links to the Crusades. Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant ...
The Red Cross, a symbol synonymous with humanitarian and medical aid, is being misused by a range of individuals and companies. It might be a medical or veterinarian centre wrongly using the cross.
A confronting new Australian documentary has compared the Southern Cross symbol to the Nazi Swastika. Filmmaker Warwick Thornton said he could see the similarities between the 'hijacking' of the two ...
Anthony O'Shea, James Mangan, centre, and Mike O'Shea with the restored cross. Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan The man responsible for replacing the cross on Carrauntoohil said for him it had nothing to do ...