Thursday, March 20, 2008

Peace

Today the peace symbol celebrates it's 50th yr. It started as a symbol for the anti-nuclear movement in Britain. It came about as part of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

From the BBC website

This shows the symbolism behind the symbol.
The letters come a flag-signaling alphabet (semaphore) representing N and D --> for Nuclear Disarmament.
The two symbols are inside a circle representing Earth.




Below is the link to the entire article. Just a random bit of interesting information I came across today! :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7292252.stm

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