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The Star of David (Hebrew: מָגֵן דָּוִד, romanized: Magen David, lit. 'Shield of David') [a] is a generally recognized symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism. [1] Its shape is that of a hexagram: the compound of two equilateral triangles. The Star of David featured in the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic text.
It was excavated by Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf VI Adolf in 1926. A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it.
The standard set of chess pieces— king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. This includes fairy chess pieces, such as rotated pieces ...
Royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI and later The Queen Mother. The royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth II, using St Edward's Crown. Variant Queen Elizabeth II cypher in Jersey, with Arabic instead of Roman numerals typically employed. Base of a Spanish style lamp post with the cypher of King Ferdinand VII.
In heraldry, the royal badges of England comprise the heraldic badges that were used by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England. Heraldic badges are distinctive to a person or family, similar to the arms and the crest. But unlike them, the badge is not an integral component of a coat of arms, although they can be displayed alongside them.
Unofficial symbol of the nation of England. (with altered tinctures) emblem of various English national sports teams. The coat of arms of England is the coat of arms historically used as arms of dominion by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England, and now used to symbolise England generally. [1]
The Royal Standard used in Scotland [1] The royal standard of the United Kingdom is the banner of arms of the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently Charles III. It consists of the monarch's coat of arms in flag form, and is made up of four quarters containing the arms of the former kingdoms of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
A play in book form entitled The King in Yellow. A mysterious and malevolent supernatural and gothic entity known as the King in Yellow. An eerie symbol called the Yellow Sign. These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters who are often artists or decadents, inhabitants of the demi-monde.