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The coat of arms of the Visconti of Milan showing the biscione wearing a crown. The biscione [a] (English: "big grass snake"), less commonly known also as the vipera, [b] is in heraldry a charge consisting of a divine serpent in the act of giving birth to a child.
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State Arms of the Union (title page, illustrated, 1876). Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states date back to the admission of the first states to the Union.Despite the widely accepted practice of determining early statehood from the date of ratification of the United States Constitution, many of the original colonies referred to themselves as states shortly after the Declaration of ...
Coats is a town in Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,155 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Coats is a part of the Anderson Creek Micropolitan Area, which is a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as defined by the United States Census Bureau .
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Coats was founded in about 1887 [4] by William A. Coats, and named for him. [5] Coats was incorporated as a city within the now-defunct Grant Township in 1909. [6] The town formerly hosted a stop on the Wichita & Englewood division Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad and had a weekly newspaper (the Courant).
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is an erect serpent in silver on a red field. The fabulous animal is called in Italian "Biscione". This animal, which can also be found on the arms of the Alfa Romeo car company, is linked with the Visconti of Milan, who were feudal lords of Bellinzona in the 14th and 15th centuries. [9]
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