enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Compass rose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_rose

    Linguistic anthropological studies have shown that most human communities have four points of cardinal direction.The names given to these directions are usually derived from either locally-specific geographic features (e.g. "towards the hills", "towards the sea") or from celestial bodies (especially the sun) or from atmospheric features (winds, temperature). [1]

  3. Tudor rose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_rose

    The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white inner petals, representing the House of York, and five red outer petals to represent the ...

  4. Rose symbolism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_symbolism

    Black rose symbolism – fictional symbol with different meanings; Bread and Roses – a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song; Christmas rose – common name for some flowering plants; The Rose Cross – western esoteric symbol; Sub rosa – phrase meaning secrecy

  5. Reactive oxygen species - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_oxygen_species

    In chemistry and biology, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive chemicals formed from diatomic oxygen (O 2), water, and hydrogen peroxide. Some prominent ROS are hydroperoxide (O 2 H), superoxide (O 2-), [1] hydroxyl radical (OH.), and singlet oxygen. [2] ROS are pervasive because they are readily produced from O 2, which is ...

  6. Rose (heraldry) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_(heraldry)

    The rose is one of the most common plant symbols in heraldry, together with the lily, which also has a stylistic representation in the fleur-de-lis. [ 1 ] The rose was the symbol of the English Tudor dynasty , and the ten-petaled Tudor rose (termed a double rose) is associated with England .

  7. Rose Cross - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Cross

    A Rose Cross with a fleur-de-lis design on its spokes. The Rose Cross (also called Rose Croix and Rosy Cross) is a symbol largely associated with the legendary Christian Rosenkreuz, a Christian Kabbalist and alchemist said to have been the founder of the Rosicrucian Order.

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographical...

    (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols ...

  9. Black rose symbolism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rose_symbolism

    Black Rose Books is the name of the Montreal anarchist publisher and small press imprint headed by the libertarian-municipalist and anarchist Dimitrios Roussopoulos. One of the two anarchist bookshops in Sydney is Black Rose Books which has existed in various guises since 1982. [4]