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  2. Flag of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The flag of the United Nations is a sky blue banner containing the United Nations' emblem in the centre. The emblem on the flag is coloured white; it is a depiction of the world map in the azimuthal equidistant projection (centred on the North Pole and the International Date Line ), surrounded by a pair of olive branches .

  3. Faith, Unity, Discipline - Wikipedia

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    It is inscribed in Urdu at the base of the state emblem. The emblem itself is an adaptation of four components: wreath, crescent, star and scroll, with all components in the shield bounded by the wreath of the jasmine flower, and the crescent and star crest depicted at the top. [3]

  4. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    An English-Urdu bilingual sign at the archaeological site of Sirkap, near Taxila. The Urdu says: (right to left) دو سروں والے عقاب کی شبيہ والا مندر, dō sarōñ wālé u'qāb kī shabīh wāla mandir. "The temple with the image of the eagle with two heads." Most languages of Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic ...

  5. United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] international organization with the intended purpose of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and countries, achieving international cooperation, and serving as a center for coordinating the actions of member states. [3]

  6. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu was chosen as a symbol of unity for the new Dominion of Pakistan in 1947, because it had already served as a lingua franca among Muslims in north and northwest of British Indian Empire. [154] Urdu is also seen as a repertory for the cultural and social heritage of Pakistan. [155]

  7. Official languages of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The official languages of the United Nations are the six languages used in United Nations (UN) meetings and in which the UN writes all its official documents. [ 1 ] For the United Nations to select a language to be official, a majority of the 193 members need to vote in favor of it.

  8. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.

  9. Modern Arabic mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    It is contested that the usage of Latin x in maths is derived from the first letter ش šīn (without its dots) of the Arabic word شيء šayʾ(un), meaning thing. [2] (X was used in old Spanish for the sound /ʃ/). However, according to others there is no historical evidence for this. [3] [4] ص: From the Arabic letter ص ṣād