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The heraldic mobile charge fountain takes the form of a heraldic roundel barry-wavy of six, argent and azure (white and blue). The charge represents a well or spring, and Berry (1810) speculates that the fountain "might have been borne by ancient knights to express the inexhaustible source of courage ever to be found within them, which flowed ...
The New Indianola Historic District is a historic district in the Weinland Park and Indianola Terrace neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio's University District.The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and the Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1987.
Unlike mobile charges, the ordinary charges [8] reach to the edge of the field. Some heraldic writers [b] distinguish, albeit arbitrarily, between (honourable) ordinaries and sub-ordinaries. While some authors hold that only nine charges are "honourable" ordinaries, exactly which ones fit into this category is a subject of constant disagreement.
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This charge, seen in continental heraldry (above, used in a Portuguese communal coat of arms), must be called a naturalistic fountain in English blazons. Fountain or syke is in the terminology of heraldry a roundel depicted as a roundel barry wavy argent and azure, that is, containing alternating horizontal wavy bands of silver (or white) and ...
Fountain Valley is home to Mile Square Regional Park, a 640-acre (2.6 km 2) park containing two lakes, three 18-hole golf courses, playing fields, picnic shelters, and a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) urban nature area planted with California native plants, a 55-acre (220,000 m 2) recreation center with tennis courts, basketball courts, racquetball ...
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In heraldry, a mount (also mountain, hill, hillock) is a representation of a hill or mountain as a curved terrace in base. [1] When the mount is included in the lower part of the shield, it may be considered an ordinary rather than a charge.