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  2. Cultural depictions of spiders - Wikipedia

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    Cultural depictions of spiders. Pre-Columbian spider image from a conch shell gorget at the Great Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Throughout history, spiders have been depicted in popular culture, mythology and in symbolism. From Greek mythology to African folklore, the spider has been used to represent a variety of things, and endures into the ...

  3. LGBT linguistics - Wikipedia

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    LGBT linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBT communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by William Leap in the 1990s, which "encompass [es] a wide range of everyday language practices" in LGBT communities, [1] and queer linguistics, which refers to the linguistic analysis concerning the effect of heteronormativity on expressing ...

  4. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war.

  5. Lilac (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lilac (color) Lilac is a light shade of purple representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet .

  6. Lavandula angustifolia - Wikipedia

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    Lavandula vera DC. Lavandula angustifolia, formerly L. officinalis, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Italy, Croatia etc.). Its common names include lavender, true lavender and English lavender [2] (though it is not native to England); also garden lavender, [3] common lavender and narrow ...

  7. Pride flag - Wikipedia

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    Many variations on the rainbow flag exist, including ones incorporating other LGBT symbols like the triangle or lambda. [6] In 2018 designer Daniel Quasar created a modified version of the Rainbow pride flag, incorporating elements of other flags to bring focus on inclusion and progress. This flag is known as the Progress Pride Flag.

  8. Road signs in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Like other countries, the signs use pictograms to display their meaning. Any text included in signs will normally be in Korean and English. Signs are normally placed 1 to 2.1 meters high. South Korean road signs depict people with realistic (as opposed to stylized) silhouettes.

  9. Citrine (colour) - Wikipedia

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    The original reference point for the citrine colour was the citron fruit. The first recorded use of citrine as a colour in English was in 1386. [3] It was borrowed from a medieval Latin and classical Latin word with the same meaning. In late medieval and early modern English the citrine colour-name was applied in a wider variety of contexts than it is today and could be "reddish or brownish ...