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Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message. [1] [2] Signage also means signs collectively or being considered as a group. [3] The term signage is documented to have been popularized in 1975 to 1980. [2] Signs are any kind of visual graphics created to display information to
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .
Political lawn signs in Sioux City, Iowa ahead of the 2018 United States elections. Lawn signs (also known as yard signs, [1] bandit signs [2] and placards, [3] among other names) are small signs that can be placed on a street-facing lawn or elsewhere on a property to express the support for an election candidate, or political position, [4] by the property owner (or sometimes to promote a ...
A sticker on the back of this Illinois street sign is intended to deter theft. Street signs can be stolen for use as decorations or to be sold as scrap metal. [1] Although theft often seems arbitrary, signs with unusual or amusing names tend to be stolen more frequently.
In Quebec, modern signs read either Arrêt or Stop. [4] Both stop and arrêt are considered valid French words and the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) notes that the use of "stop" on stop signs is attested in French since 1927. [5]
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.