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A depiction of The Southern Cross in Mark Twain's 1897 travelogue, "Following the Equator" The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross. It has great significance in the cultures of the southern hemisphere, particularly of Australia, Brazil, Chile and New Zealand. [37]
"Southern Cross" is a song written by Stephen Stills, Rick Curtis, and Michael Curtis and performed by the rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was featured on the band's Daylight Again album and was released as a single in September 1982. Stephen Stills sings lead throughout, with Graham Nash joining on the second verse.
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.
The Southern Cross is one of the most distinctive constellations visible in the Southern Hemisphere, and has been used to represent Australia since the early days of British settlement. [6] Ivor Evans , one of the flag's designers, intended the Southern Cross to also refer to the four moral virtues ascribed to the four main stars by Dante ...
The Southern Cross or Crux, a constellation visible in the Southern Hemisphere, is depicted on flags and coats of arms of various countries and sub-national entities. This star constellation is visible mostly in the southern hemisphere and it therefore symbolises the southern location of its users.
Acrux is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux. It has the Bayer designation α Crucis , which is Latinised to Alpha Crucis and abbreviated Alpha Cru or α Cru . With a combined visual magnitude of +0.76, it is the 13th-brightest star in the night sky .
MS Southern Cross, a cruise ship; Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship series) Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship) Southern Cross, a yacht that challenged for the 1974 America's Cup; SS Southern Cross, a list of steamships; Southern Cross, steam yacht ex-Rover in the 1930s, when owned by Howard Hughes
Delta Crucis or δ Crucis, also identified as Imai (/ ˈ iː m aɪ /), is a star in the southern constellation of Crux, and is the faintest of the four bright stars that form the prominent asterism known as the Southern Cross.